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Unit 4: The Renaissance Unit PlanUnit 4: The Renaissance Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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Grade
5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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Duration
1 mo 5 days
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Year
2014
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Unit Plan

Unit 4: The Renaissance

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This Unit 4: The Renaissance unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 4: The Renaissance (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Introduction to Fifth Grade CKLA (.pdf)
  • Beginning of Year Assessment (.pdf)
  • Yearlong Teacher Resources (.pdf)
  • Decoding and Encoding Remediation Supplement (.pdf)
  • Fluency Supplement (.pdf)
  • Activity Book: The Renaissance (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: The Renaissance (.pdf)
  • Alignment Chart: The Renaissance (.pdf)
  • Digital Components: The Renaissance (.pdf)
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The Renaissance is the theme of a five-week unit designed to boost reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and expository writing skills. Scholars listen to and discuss daily readings and engage in skills practice activities covering prefixes, linking verbs, prepositions, and correlative conjunctions. They test their spelling, draft informational paragraphs about humanism, and write biographies for Renaissance artists.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

reading, read-alouds, reading aloud, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, responding to reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, morphology, linking verbs, past tense verbs, prefixes, Writing, writing paragraphs, informational texts, note-taking skills, biography writing, prepositions, prepositional phrases, spelling, correlative conjunctions, root words, the writing process, the renaissance, famous artists

Instructional Ideas

  • Visit the library to collect biographies that pupils can browse for inspiration
  • Direct the class to respond to the included writing prompts in a journal; at the end of the unit, reflect on the progress they made 

Classroom Considerations

  • The fourth unit in a nine-part series created by Core Knowledge for fifth graders
  • Visit each lesson's "At a Glance" section to view the materials needed

Pros

  • The interdisciplinary approach combines topics in ELA and social studies
  • Information is carefully scaffolded from lesson to lesson

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.5.1 RI.5.2 RI.5.3 RI.5.4 RI.5.5 RI.5.6 RI.5.7 RI.5.8 RI.5.9 RI.5.10 RF.5.3.a RF.5.4.a RF.5.4.b RF.5.4.c W.5.2.a W.5.2.b W.5.2.c W.5.2.d W.5.2.e W.5.4 W.5.5 W.5.6 W.5.7 W.5.8 W.5.9.b W.5.10 SL.5.1.a SL.5.1.b SL.5.1.c SL.5.1.d SL.5.2 SL.5.3 SL.5.4 SL.5.6 L.5.1.a L.5.1.c L.5.1.d L.5.1.e L.5.2.d L.5.2.e L.5.3.a L.5.3.b L.5.4.a L.5.4.b L.5.4.c L.5.5.a L.5.5.b L.5.5.c

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