5th grade Instructional Guide

Focus of Instruction & Materials Fifth Grade

Group 1 : Accurate & Benchmark Rate Focus of Instruction: Comprehension ● Monitoring for meaning ● Identifying, summarizing, and extending main ideas ● Self-monitoring and fx-up strategies and awareness of reading for understanding ● Teaching important words directly and word-learning strategies ● Extended speaking, reading and writing opportunities tied to Core subjects ● Close Reading with Literary and Informational Text from the Wonders Classroom Library Titles ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On level or Beyond Level Readers and Lessons ● Research and Inquiry Lessons ● Wonders Extend and Connect Lessons ● Extended Writing ● Reading Software Group 3 : Inaccurate & Benchmark Rate Focus of Instruction: Self-Monitoring for Accuracy (Digging Deeper into Needs ● Explicit modeling of accurate reading ● Self-monitoring—table tap when student makes an error. This will help the student slow down and read more accurately. ● Challenge student to read a portion of the text with 2 or fewer errors ● Teach student to adjust rate of reading to type of text and purpose for reading Instructional Materials:

Group 2 : Accurate & Below Benchmark Rate Focus of Instruction: Fluency ● Building automaticity, but do not ignore making meaning ● Repeated readings ● Word or phrase level automaticity in addition to passages, if necessary ● Grouping words to make meaning, pacing punctuation ● Read for main idea, summarizing, and/or text elements ● Use If-Then Guide for Fluency to identify skill defcits and areas of targeted instruction ● Wonders Differentiated Leveled Readers and Genre Passages ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On-Level lessons ● Wonders Fluency Assessment (use for practice) ● Word and Phrase practice for Sight Word Fluency Group 4 : Inaccurate & Below Benchmark Rate Focus of Instruction: Phonics and/or Phonological Awareness ● Missing phonemic awareness skills ● Missing decoding skills ● Missing sight words skills ● Missing multisyllabic decoding skills ● Applying skills to connected text at instructional level ● Building fuency at independent level ● Substantial practice applying phonics to new text and writing ● Use If-Then Guide for Phonemic Awareness and/or Core Phonics Screener Alignment Guide to identify skill defcits and areas of targeted instruction Instructional Materials: ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group Approaching Level Readers and Lesson ● Word and Phrase practice for sight word fuency ● 95% Group Basic and Advanced Phonics Lessons (PLL) ● CSD Decodable Database Instructional Materials:

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Phonics and Word Analysis

● Wonders Differentiated Leveled Readers and Genre Passages ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On-Level lessons ● Wonders: Fluency Assessment (use for practice)