SALTA 5th grade

5 th Grade SALTA Depth and Complexity Considerations Unit 1 Theme: Meeting Challenges

To go further with depth and complexity, consider: Digital Text Resources: Research & Inquiry Skills

Tween Tribune Grades 1-5

Wonderopolis Grades K-12

Read Works Grades K-12

● Dictionary/Glossary ● Almanac ● SPQ3R (Survey, Predict, Question, Read, Recite, Review)

The Smithsonian provides news articles for K-12 students. Lexile levels may be preventative for 2nd grade students.

Library of nonfction and literary articles,along with reading comprehension and vocabulary lessons, assessments, and teacher guidance.

With multi-disciplinary content that purposefully aligns to Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and STEM. Teachers can use the daily Wonder to jumpstart student thinking.

● Newspaper/Newsletter ● Electronic Encyclopedia

Junior Great Books:

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A History of US The New Nation (NF)

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Portrait of African-American Heroes

● We were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History (NF) ● The Invisible Child (F) ● Learning the Game (F) ● Lenny’s Red-Letter Day (F) ● Ghost Cat (F) ● The Bermuda Triangle (F)

Black Potatoes

If you Lived with the Sioux Indians (NF)

● If you Lived when there was Slavery in America (NF) ● Children of the Great Depression (NF) ● We are the Ship the story of Negro League Baseball (NF) ● A History of US The frst Americans (NF)

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