5th grade
writing
Standards
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Essential Questions
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CC.5.W.1 Text Types and Purposes: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
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How does a logical argument help support a point of view using facts and details?
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CC.5.W.1.a Text Types and Purposes: Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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How does a logical argument help support a point of view using facts and details?
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CC.5.W.1.b Text Types and Purposes: Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
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How does a logical argument help support a point of view using facts and details?
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CC.5.W.1.c Text Types and Purposes: Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).
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How does a logical argument help support a point of view using facts and details?
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CC.5.W.1.d Text Types and Purposes: Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
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How does a logical argument help support a point of view using facts and details?
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CC.5.W.2 Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
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How does the organizational structure of an informative/explanatory text allow a writer to select appropriate facts about a topic and convey them in a format that clearly states a purpose?
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CC.5.W.2.a Text Types and Purposes: Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
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How does the organizational structure of an informative/explanatory text allow a writer to select appropriate facts about a topic and convey them in a format that clearly states a purpose?
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CC.5.W.2.b Text Types and Purposes: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
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How does the organizational structure of an informative/explanatory text allow a writer to select appropriate facts about a topic and convey them in a format that clearly states a purpose?
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CC.5.W.2.c Text Types and Purposes: Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).
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How does the organizational structure of an informative/explanatory text allow a writer to select appropriate facts about a topic and convey them in a format that clearly states a purpose?
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CC.5.W.2.d Text Types and Purposes: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
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How does the organizational structure of an informative/explanatory text allow a writer to select appropriate facts about a topic and convey them in a format that clearly states a purpose?
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CC.5.W.2.e Text Types and Purposes: Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.
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How does the organizational structure of an informative/explanatory text allow a writer to select appropriate facts about a topic and convey them in a format that clearly states a purpose?
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CC.5.W.3 Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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How can a writer engage an audience using literary techniques in a narrative piece of writing?
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CC.5.W.3.a Text Types and Purposes: Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
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How can a writer engage an audience using literary techniques in a narrative piece of writing?
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CC.5.W.3.b Text Types and Purposes: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
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How can a writer engage an audience using literary techniques in a narrative piece of writing?
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CC.5.W.3.c Text Types and Purposes: Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
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How can a writer engage an audience using literary techniques in a narrative piece of writing?
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CC.5.W.3.d Text Types and Purposes: Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
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How can a writer engage an audience using literary techniques in a narrative piece of writing?
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CC.5.W.3.e Text Types and Purposes: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
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How can a writer engage an audience using literary techniques in a narrative piece of writing?
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CC.5.W.4 Production and Distribution of Writing: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
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Why are thesis statements and topic sentences important in a piece of writing?
Why should a writer develop paragraphs within a piece of writing? |
CC.5.W.5 Production and Distribution of Writing: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.(Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3up to and including grade 5 on page 29.)
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How will students develop and strengthen writing with guidance and support from peers and adults?
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CC.5.W.6 Production and Distribution of Writing: With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.
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How can writers use technology, including collaborating with peers and adults, to produce and publish writing?
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CC.5.W.7 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
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How do students build knowledge through the use of several sources to create a short research project?
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CC.5.W.8 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
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How will students gather and paraphrase credible information from print and digital sources?
How will students cite their sources? |
CC.5.W.9 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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How does a writer use evidence from literary or informational texts to support their statements?
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CC.5.W.9.a Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Apply grade 5 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or a drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., how characters interact]”).
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How does a writer use evidence from literary or informational texts to support their statements?
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CC.5.W.9.b Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Apply grade 5 Reading standards to informational texts (e.g., “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point[s]”).
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How does a writer use evidence from literary or informational texts to support their statements?
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CC.5.W.10 Range of Writing: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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