English Language Arts, Grade 5

Unit 1: Response Process

How a reader connects with, understands and responds to texts.

• Use: Sequence/chronology
• Use: Compare/contrast
• Use: Problem-solution
• Use: Uses the purpose for reading and clues in the text to…

• Use: Integrates new information with what is already known to…

Unit 2: Writing Process

The stages of writing — planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing.

• Use: Adds descriptive words and sufficient details
• Use: Sequences information, events

• Use: Checks for conventions of grammar

Unit 3: Production Process (Media)

The stages of making a media text, from planning to sharing (a genuine QEP strand).

• Use: Understands the purpose for the production
• Use: Selects text type depending on purpose, audience and context
• Use: Examines models of text type to be produced through…
• Use: Drafts storyboard
• Use: Identifies and gathers material, resources, expertise for…
• Use: Uses prior knowledge of media text type from experiences…
• Use: Uses images and/or print and/or sound to produce a familiar…
• Use: Uses storyboard and/or other planning resources to guide…

Unit 4: Self-Expressive: Texts That Reinforce or Maintain Relationships

Texts that build and keep relationships — cards, letters, messages.

• Use: Self expressive language to relate ideas, feelings,…
• Use: Self-expressive language in poetry: line breaks or stanzas,…

Unit 5: Self-Expressive: Reflective Texts

Texts that reflect on the child's own thoughts, feelings and experiences.

• Use: Texts that focus on reflecting and evaluating own learning,…

• Use: Multimedia journals

Unit 6: Narrative and Literary Texts

Stories and literary texts — their features, genres and required reading.

• Use: Photo stories

• Use: The physical landscape and social context in which the…
• Use: Descriptive details that construct the world of the story

• Use: Literary conventions
• Use: Humor, suspense, repetition

Unit 7: Information-Based: Explanatory Texts

Texts that explain how or why.

• Use: Explanation of reasons for a decision

Unit 8: Information-Based: Persuasive Texts

Texts that try to persuade a reader.

• Use: Texts that seek to persuade peers to change their habits…

• Notice: Music/sound to promote a product and/or appeal to the…