Grade 5 Literacy #14: What's the Purpose?
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Students will learn how to determine the reason the author wrote the text (17m 9s)
Grade 5 Literacy #13: How Do We Make Sense of This?
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Students will read 2 texts: Animals on the Move and a website "Blindness Facts for Kids" (17m 59s)
Grade 5 Literacy #11: Rachel's Journal: On the Oregon Trail
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Students will learn how to use text evidence to determine point of view (17m 45s)
Grade 5 LIteracy #12: Rachel's Journal: On the Oregon Trail
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How to use text evidence to compare moods and events that occurred in the story (15m 55s)
Grade 5 Literacy #9: Running for Freedom w/ Tucket's Travels
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In this lesson, students will learn how to use text evidence to support inferencing. (20m 39s)
Grade 5 Literacy #10: Storm Clouds are Coming
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Storm Clouds are Coming with Tucket's Travels and Spinning Thunderstorms & Author's Use of (17m 40s)
Grade 5 Literacy #8: Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Comparison
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What critical information was present in one source but not in the other? (18m 28s)
Grade 5 Literacy #7: Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Evidence
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Learn how to use headings as clues about the ideas the author is trying to communicate. (20m 49s)
Grade 5 Literacy #6: Kids Changing the Community
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In this lesson, students will learn how to determine the author’s purpose in a text. (15m 32s)
Grade 5 Literacy #5: Where Do You Stand? Darnell Rock
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Students learn how to compare and contrast the big ideas in the story, Darnell Rock Report (20m 47s)
Grade 5 Literacy #4: Tale of Two Mountains, Compare&Contrast
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How to compare and contrast information in the two articles on mountain climbing. (18m 3s)
Grade 5 Literacy #3: Mountain Climbing 101, Cause and Effect
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Students will learn to determine cause and effect in the two articles on mountain climbing (17m 49s)
Grade 5 Literacy: The Birchbark House, Theme
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Learn how to determine the book's theme using text evidence to support their thinking. (14m 15s)
Grade 5 Literacy: The Birchbark House, Character Traits
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Students determine one or more character traits of the main character using evidence. (15m 22s)
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