Ela Common Core 5th Grade Pacing Guide
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
My school uses Scott Foresman Reading Street, but we are encouraged to teach the standards, not just the book. We can (and should!) use other resources out there rather than simply teaching Unit 1 Week 3 Day 1 from Reading Street. I taught 1st grade for 4 years and LOVED RS (that was before the Common Core version.
Ela Common Core 5th Grade
I only used the 2008 or 2009 edition, so I can only speak for it). 5th grade Reading Street was a completely different story. I could not teach it the way I did in 1st grade because of time.
In 1st, I had an entire 2 hours devoted to reading alone. 5th is different so I had to adapt. I used the series for the most part and just picked which parts I thought were most important to cover and then I also used novels to teach certain skills and strategies. I always felt like my most successful teaching came from when I moved away from following the book exactly. I knew I needed a plan to become a little more organized in my teaching and make it a little easier on myself. I'm still using many resources from Scott Foresman, but I'm not following their weekly plan, nor using their stories for the most part. Instead, I'm using articles from Time for Kids to bring in nonfiction and Scholastic's Storyworks from works of fiction.
Grade 5 Ela Common Core Pacing Guide
Occasionally I will use the text from RS. I used my classroom money two years to purchase Storyworks and let me tell you, it was worth it!
Ftce elementry k 3 study guide. I LOVE this magazine! The stories are great and come with tons of activities and resources to use with it.
It's Common Core Aligned too! So then I figured out the weeks in the first grading period and identified my main topics to focus on in Reading. I'm sticking to one major skill for two weeks. This may seem like a lot of time, but I started doing this mid year last year and it worked a lot better for me as opposed to one week. We were able to get more practice in with each skill. When you think about it, you're covering more than one standard with many lessons so it works, especially for the 1st nine weeks when you are establishing routines and the students don't automatically know how to do certain things yet.
This part may differ in the next grading period if I see I need to adjust in order to cover everything.