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Grade 5 English develops four connected strands throughout the semester.
Literary and informational texts, enrichment reading, cause and effect, author's claim, problem and solution, and theme.
Homographs, context clues, vowel patterns, r-controlled vowels, plurals, syllables, contractions, and inflectional endings.
Sentences, subjects and predicates, conjunctions, sentence combining, nouns, prepositional phrases, and verbs.
Paragraph writing, personal narrative, how-to essays, descriptive writing, and free journal writing.