Grade 5 · English · Semester 1 · 2026–2027

Your Grade 5 English journey, week by week.

Follow the semester from reading and vocabulary through grammar, spelling, and writing. Open any week to see the exact texts, skills, classwork, homework, and page references.

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The semester journey — click a point to jump to that week.

What students will work on

Grade 5 English develops four connected strands throughout the semester.

Core Strand

Reading & Comprehension

Literary and informational texts, enrichment reading, cause and effect, author's claim, problem and solution, and theme.

Core Strand

Vocabulary & Spelling

Homographs, context clues, vowel patterns, r-controlled vowels, plurals, syllables, contractions, and inflectional endings.

Core Strand

Grammar

Sentences, subjects and predicates, conjunctions, sentence combining, nouns, prepositional phrases, and verbs.

Core Strand

Writing

Paragraph writing, personal narrative, how-to essays, descriptive writing, and free journal writing.