5th Grade Reading and Writing

  The 5th grade reading and writing student:

•  Adds to his knowledge of short story elements—setting, characters, plot, and order.
• Learns about the four types of conflict in stories.
• Discovers personification, alliteration, anagrams, analogies, antonyms, homonyms, homophones, similes, and metaphors.
• Considers time order and narrative, cause and effect, point of view, comparison and contrast, and the difference between fact and opinion.
• Distinguishes between topic sentences and supporting sentences and persuasive and descriptive writing.

Resources:

• https://www.writingrockstars.com/LP/EndBlankPageTerrorEbook/
• https://allinonehomeschool.com/reading-5/
• https://underthehome.org/prose/subject?grade=5
• https://underthehome.org/poetry/textbook?title=Poetic%20Forms&grade=5
• https://underthehome.org/reading/textbook?title=McGuffey%27s%20Third%20Eclectic%20Reader&grade=4
• https://underthehome.org/reading/textbook?title=McGuffey%27s%20Fourth%20Eclectic%20Reader&grade=5
• https://www.walkingbytheway.com/blog/creative-writing/

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