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Fifth Grade Lessons and Units

Lesson Design Tools

Literacy In Action

 Unit and lesson design guidance and templates

Videos that share literacy practices in action

State Department Collections

• Louisiana Department of Education: Fifth Grade.
• Mississippi Exemplar Unit: Fifth Grade
• New York State ELA Units
• Vermont Writing Collaborative: Writing for Understanding Common Core Units for Teachers
• Delaware Literacy Concept Organizers 
• Kentucky Literacy Strategies and Organizers

Independent Organization Collections

• Achieve: A not for profit, independent group dedicated to raising student achievement; assisted in development of the CCSS: Select EQuIP Exemplars Tab, Grade 5
• Basal Alignment Project: Common Core aligned lessons with stories included in the basal programs listed below. Each story has updated text-dependent questions, tier 2 & 3 vocabulary as well as culminating tasks including writing.​
• CommonLit:  High quality, free, standards aligned instructional units that support literacy development in grades 5-12 
• Common Sense Media Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum: These free K-12 materials are aligned to our new standards and can be accessed in iBooks or in printable form. 
• Knox Education: Opinion/Argument Writing Packet