Literacy Activities and Resources

5th Grade - Distant Voyages
Theme 3 - A Changing Planet

Skills Based Activities
  
Comprehension
Text Structure: Main Idea and Details
          Locating Specific Information
          Main Idea & Details - Thomas Edison
          Main Idea - Branches of Government
 
Text Structure: Sequence
          The New News
          Making Microwave Popcorn
          Comic Strip Sequencing
          Sequencing - Dolley Madison
 
 Research and Information Skills
Graphic Aids
          Reading Charts and Graphs
          Percentages in Charts
          Interpreting Chart Information
          Reading Charts - Roller Coasters
          Using Graphic Aids - Peace Valley
 
 Language
Nouns and Pronouns
          Grammar Blast - Nouns
          Grammar Blast - Pronouns
          Nouns & Pronouns
Resources by Story
 
Everglades
 
Summer of Fire
 
Oceans
- Vocabulary Review

Seeing Earth from Space
 - Vocabulary Review
 
 The Case of the Flying-Saucer People
- Vocabulary Review


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