Grade 5 English weekly lessons

Suggested weekly sequencing of competencies for lesson pacing.

English

Term 1

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: noting important elements (story grammar)
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying type of plot: sequential
  3. Comprehend literary texts: identifying the main idea
  4. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using context clues: analogy
  5. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: suffixes: verb-forming suffixes
  6. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using general references: dictionary
  7. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types: narrative
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: sequencing events: at least 7 events
  2. Comprehend literary texts: summarizing story events
  3. Comprehend literary texts: applying the important story elements to one's schema: evaluating possibility of an event happening in real life
  4. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: kinds of nouns: collective, concrete, abstract
  5. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: subject pronouns: demonstrative
  6. Identify visual elements: using layout (margin, grid, header, slide bar)
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: inferring: character's feelings and traits
  2. Comprehend literary texts: making predictions: character's possible decision/action
  3. Comprehend literary texts: drawing conclusions
  4. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: subject pronouns: relative
  5. Use tone and mood appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: formal
  6. Derive meaning based on the visual elements: interpreting tone and mood
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing sound devices
    • onomatopoeia
    • alliteration
    • assonance
    • consonance
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing figures of speech to get and clarify meaning
    • simile
    • metaphor
    • personification
  2. Comprehend literary texts
    • identifying the main idea
    • summarizing story events
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using kinds of verbs
    • helping
    • linking (and sense)
    • transitive
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using complement: noun
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: composing compound-complex sentences
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs
    • progressive present
    • progressive past
    • progressive future
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using adjectives: series (determiner, quantity, quality, size, shape, color)
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using adverbs
    • manner
    • time
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts: noting important information through outlining: deductive organization (inverted pyramid)
  2. Comprehend informational texts: identifying text types
    • explanation
    • news report
  3. Comprehend informational texts: identifying author's purpose
    • entertain
    • inform, explain, describe
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts
    • drawing conclusions
    • making generalizations
    • making a summary
    • distinguishing fact from opinion
  2. Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: giving relevant information on a given topic
  3. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types
    • explanation
    • news report
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using friendly letters
  2. Use appropriate non-verbal cues for clarity of context, purpose, and meaning
    • using facial expressions
    • using gestures
    • using eye contact
    • using haptics
    • using posture
    • using proxemics and blocking
  3. Fill out forms accurately
    • personal data forms
    • school forms
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Derive meaning based on the visual elements
    • identifying the purpose of the visual text
    • analyzing how visual elements contribute to the meaning of a text
    • interpreting stereotypes on age and gender
    • interpreting stereotypes on socio-economic status
  2. Evaluate cultural appropriateness of visual elements
  3. Create a visual text drawn from visual elements learned
  4. Identify multimedia elements: audio
  5. Derive meaning for multimedia elements learned: identifying the author's purpose

Term 2

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: noting important elements (story grammar)
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying type of plot: flashback
  3. Comprehend literary texts: identifying the main idea
  4. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using context clues: analogy
  5. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types: narrative
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: sequencing events: at least 7 events
  2. Comprehend literary texts: summarizing story events
  3. Comprehend literary texts: inferring: character's feelings and traits
  4. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using context clues: appositive
  5. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using general references: glossary
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: making predictions: character's possible decision/action
  2. Comprehend literary texts: drawing conclusions
  3. Comprehend literary texts: applying the important story elements to one's schema: evaluating possibility of an event happening in real life
  4. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing figures of speech to get and clarify meaning: metaphor
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing figures of speech to get and clarify meaning
    • personification
    • hyperbole
  2. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using structural analysis: suffixes: adverb-forming suffixes
  3. Use tone and mood appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: formal
  4. Derive meaning based on the visual elements: interpreting tone and mood
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: kinds of nouns: possessive, compound
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: subject pronouns: relative
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using kinds of verbs
    • linking (and sense)
    • transitive
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs
    • progressive present
    • progressive past
    • progressive future
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using adverbs
    • place
    • frequency
    • intensity
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using complement
    • noun
    • pronoun
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: composing compound-complex sentences
  3. Comprehend literary texts
    • identifying the main idea
    • summarizing story events
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts: noting important information through outlining: deductive organization (inverted pyramid)
  2. Comprehend informational texts: identifying text types
    • explanation
    • news report
  3. Comprehend informational texts: identifying author's purpose
    • entertain
    • inform, explain, describe
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts
    • drawing conclusions
    • making generalizations
    • making a summary
    • distinguishing fact from opinion
  2. Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: giving relevant information on a given topic
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types
    • explanation
    • news report
  2. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using friendly letters
  3. Fill out forms accurately
    • bank forms
    • composite/government forms
  4. Identify visual elements: using directionality (linear, overlapping shapes)
  5. Derive meaning based on the visual elements: identifying the purpose of the visual text
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Use appropriate non-verbal cues for clarity of context, purpose, and meaning
    • using facial expressions
    • using gestures
    • using eye contact
    • using haptics
    • using posture
    • using proxemics and blocking
  2. Derive meaning based on the visual elements
    • analyzing how visual elements contribute to the meaning of a text
    • interpreting stereotypes on age and gender
    • interpreting stereotypes on socio-economic status
  3. Evaluate cultural appropriateness of visual elements
  4. Create a visual text drawn from visual elements learned
  5. Identify multimedia elements: video
  6. Derive meaning for multimedia elements learned: identifying the author's purpose

Term 3

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: noting important elements (story grammar)
  2. Comprehend literary texts: identifying type of plot: flashback
  3. Comprehend literary texts: identifying the main idea
  4. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using context clues: analogy
  5. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types: narrative
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: sequencing events: at least 7 events
  2. Comprehend literary texts: summarizing story events
  3. Comprehend literary texts: inferring: character's feelings and traits
  4. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using context clues: appositive
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: making predictions: character's possible decision/action
  2. Comprehend literary texts: drawing conclusions
  3. Comprehend literary texts: applying the important story elements to one's schema: evaluating possibility of an event happening in real life
  4. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using context clues
    • general gist/sense
    • punctuation
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend literary texts: analyzing figures of speech to get and clarify meaning
    • personification
    • hyperbole
  2. Use words with literal and implied meanings in sentences: using general references: encyclopedia
  3. Use tone and mood appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: formal
  4. Derive meaning based on the visual elements: interpreting tone and mood
  5. Use appropriate non-verbal cues for clarity of context, purpose, and meaning
    • using facial expressions
    • using gestures
    • using eye contact
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using subject-verb agreement: subject pronouns: reflexive
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using kinds of verbs: transitive
  3. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs
    • progressive present
    • progressive past
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using tenses of verbs: progressive future
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using adverbs
    • degrees of regular adverbs
    • degrees of irregular adverbs
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: using complement
    • noun
    • pronoun
    • adjective
  2. Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: composing compound-complex sentences
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts: noting important information through outlining: deductive organization (inverted pyramid)
  2. Comprehend informational texts: identifying text types
    • explanation
    • news report
  3. Comprehend informational texts: identifying author's purpose
    • entertain
    • inform, explain, describe
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Comprehend informational texts
    • drawing conclusions
    • making generalizations
    • making a summary
    • distinguishing fact from opinion
  2. Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: giving relevant information on a given topic
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using text types
    • explanation
    • news report
  2. Express ideas appropriately for one's purpose, context, and target audience: using friendly letters
  3. Use appropriate non-verbal cues for clarity of context, purpose, and meaning
    • using haptics
    • using posture
    • using proxemics and blocking
  4. Derive meaning based on the visual elements
    • identifying the purpose of the visual text
    • analyzing how visual elements contribute to the meaning of a text
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Derive meaning based on the visual elements
    • interpreting stereotypes on age and gender
    • interpreting stereotypes on socio-economic status
  2. Evaluate cultural appropriateness of visual elements
  3. Create a visual text drawn from visual elements learned
  4. Identify multimedia elements: video
  5. Derive meaning for multimedia elements learned: identifying the author's purpose
  6. Create a multimedia text drawn from multimedia elements learned