5th Grade Writing Assessment

Engage your middle school students with a thrilling 5-day detective unit centered around Roald Dahl's gripping short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter." This comprehensive unit combines critical thinking, inferencing, and multimedia analysis, making it perfect for ELA classrooms. Students will step into the shoes of detectives, analyze texts, watch film adaptations, and compare their experiences, all while meeting key CCSS standards.

What’s Included:

• Detailed Lesson Plans: Each day is thoughtfully planned to guide students through reading, analyzing, writing, and discussing "Lamb to the Slaughter."
• Graphic Organizers: Scaffolded organizers for each day to help students track evidence, make inferences, and compare the text with the film.
• Texts and Multimedia: The original short story and a link to the film adaptation, complete with an introduction by Roald Dahl.
• Writing Prompts: Engaging prompts to encourage students to write opinion essays and reflections.
• Class Discussion Guides: Questions and prompts to facilitate meaningful classroom discussions.

Day-by-Day Breakdown:

Day 1: Introduction to the Detective Activity

• Students are introduced to the murder mystery and work in groups to analyze witness statements and evidence photos.
• Focus on inference and deduction skills.

Day 2: Writing an Opinion Essay

• Students write an opinion essay based on their detective work from Day 1.
• Emphasis on textual evidence and structured writing.

Day 3: Reading "Lamb to the Slaughter"

• Students read the short story in chunked sections, making inferences and annotating the text.
• Use of scaffolding techniques to support all learners.

Day 4: Comparing Text and Film

• Students watch the film adaptation of "Lamb to the Slaughter."
• They use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the text and film, analyzing differences in storytelling techniques.

Day 5: Final Analysis and Discussion

• Students discuss their findings and the differences between the text and film.
• Wrap-up activities include reflective writing and sharing insights.

CCSS Alignment:

This unit aligns with CCSS standards for grades 5-8, focusing on quoting accurately from texts, citing textual evidence, and analyzing multimedia elements. Standards covered include:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.7
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.7
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.7

Benefits:

• Engaging and Interactive: Students love the hands-on detective work and multimedia elements.
• Skill-Building: Focus on inferencing, textual evidence, and critical thinking skills.
• Comprehensive and Ready-to-Use: All materials and instructions are included for a seamless implementation.

Bring excitement and depth to your ELA classroom with this 5-day detective unit on "Lamb to the Slaughter." Your students will love stepping into the role of detectives while honing their reading and analytical skills.

Bon voyage on your narrative adventure to the Earth's core! Prepare to be amazed by the incredible experiences that await!

What's Included?
2 Writing Prompts (Choose One)
Option 1: Divided Paragraphs (Provides a more structured approach)

1. The Crust: Your adventure begins at the surface, on the Earth's crust. Describe the landscape – is it a scorching desert, a lush forest, or a mountain peak? What sights and sounds surround you?
2. The Mantle: As you burrow deeper, the heat intensifies. You've reached the mantle, the thickest layer of the Earth. Describe the strange and wondrous things you encounter here – molten rocks, exotic crystals, or perhaps even signs of ancient creatures.
3. The Outer Core: The pressure is immense as you descend further. Now you're in the outer core, a sea of liquid metal. Describe the mesmerizing flow of the molten metal and the otherworldly sights that take your breath away.
4. The Inner Core: Finally, you've reached the Earth's innermost layer, the solid inner core. Describe the unimaginable heat and pressure here. What does it feel like to be at the very center of our planet?

Option 2: Lined Paper (Open-Ended)
This version allows for more creative freedom. Imagine your journey to the Earth's core and narrate your experiences in a continuous story. Describe the challenges you face, the wonders you discover, and your thoughts and feelings throughout this extraordinary adventure.

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Unlock Student Writing Potential with this 16-Point Writing Prompt Rubric!

Are you an educator looking to enhance your students' writing skills and provide clear, detailed feedback? This 16-Point Writing Prompt Rubric is a must have resource!

Comprehensive Evaluation: This rubric covers four essential criteria - Content and Development, Organization, Style and tone, and Conventions/Proofreading - ensuring a thorough assessment of each student's writing.

Easy-to-Use: With clear descriptions for each performance level, you'll find it simple to provide constructive feedback that students can understand and apply.

Flexible and Adaptable: Suitable for a variety of writing assignments and adaptable to different grade levels, this rubric is perfect for any classroom setting.

Promotes Growth: Designed to help students recognize their strengths and areas for improvement, our rubric encourages continuous growth and development in writing.

What’s included:

A detailed 16-point rubric with four criteria, each broken down into four performance levels, ensuring a fair and comprehensive evaluation of student writing.

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Should students be required to learn second language? This is an argumentative essay prompt, three articles, and outline sheet. Your kids will all have their own opinions about whether or not schools should require students to learn second language. This comes complete with rubric. This is a pdf.

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Not grade specific/Excellent for ALL grades!

One-page 4-Point Rubric for any writing response that requires students to identify the challenges character(s)/individual(s) face and how the character(s)/individual(s) overcome them. This Rubric is thorough and explicate making it feasible for teachers to accurately score and evaluate their students' writing responses or essays. Rubric criteria categories include: Introductory Paragraph, Explanation of Challenges, Explanation of Overcoming of Challenges, Details / Evidence, Conclusion, and Writing Mechanics. This rubric is suitable for one or multiple characters.

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Twitter-like page with tweets handouts for social media discussions and short responses, such as main ideas, paraphrasing and summarizing. Includes: Directions and Suggestions for Use ______'s Page for creating a social media page Top 5 Trending, Add Pic/Photo, Subjects to Share, Banner, @_________ new social media name Tweets boxes with 140 spaces for writing short responses Use with CCSS and other state aligned materials to help students with short answer responses. Fun way to include social media an discussions about appropriate online guidelines and posts!

This is a movie watch along for Dr. Seuss's The Lorax. This product focuses on main idea and theme, along with supporting details for both. This is a great product to help keep students on task during a movie day and also a great assessment for main idea and theme.

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Déverrouillez le succès des élèves avec l'outil de diagnostic de la conscience phonémique !

Découvrez et adressez les phonèmes spécifiques avec lesquels vos élèves rencontrent des difficultés grâce à cet outil de diagnostic ciblé, conçu pour améliorer votre enseignement, vos leçons en petits groupes et votre lecture guidée. Idéal pour les enseignants de français, cette ressource est essentielle pour identifier les lacunes phonémiques et planifier une instruction efficace.

Caractéristiques du produit :

• Tests diagnostiques complets : Comprend 39 phonèmes différents avec des listes de mots et des paragraphes correspondants, permettant d’identifier les défis phonémiques spécifiques.
• Méthodes de test flexibles : Choisissez entre faire lire les élèves à voix haute à partir de cartes de mots ou de courts paragraphes pour évaluer leur conscience phonémique.
• Outils de suivi détaillés : Utilisez des cartes de mots imprimables et plastifiables, des registres complets et des outils d'évaluation miniatures pour suivre les performances des élèves et planifier l'instruction.
• Groupement efficace : Identifiez les élèves ayant besoin de soutien supplémentaire et regroupez-les efficacement en fonction de leurs besoins phonémiques.
• Communication claire : Partagez facilement les données avec les parents, les équipes de ressources et les administrateurs pour soutenir les progrès des élèves.

Contenu :

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• 39 paragraphes spécifiques aux phonèmes : Passages authentiques pour tester la conscience phonémique dans un contexte.
• 39 outils d’évaluation miniatures : Suivez la prononciation et les progrès pour chaque phonème.
• Registres complets : Suivez les performances du groupe entier et identifiez facilement les domaines nécessitant une instruction en groupe entier ou en petits groupes.

Cet outil de diagnostic est parfait pour évaluer rapidement et adresser les problèmes de conscience phonémique, rendant votre enseignement plus efficace et vos élèves plus performants. Gagnez du temps et fournissez des données claires et concrètes pour la communication avec les parents et les collègues.

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Need an all-in one Ancient Egypt lesson for an adapted curriculum? Ancient Egypt is a complex study of art, architecture, people, and culture. In this all in one bundle, students will explore Ancient Egypt by learning about the major time periods, the language (hieroglyphs), Famous Pharaohs, and the culture of the people. Learn about the carvings on the pyramid walls, including an activity for students to create their own Cartouche hieroglyph of their name and have fun with a mummification science experiment!

Whats Included:

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5. Venn Diagram Comparing Common and Wealthy Egyptians

6. 1 CLOSE Writing Assignment with Word Bank

7. 2 Writing Prompts

8. Crossword Puzzle

59 TOTAL pages of learning!!!

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This product includes a chart for students to track platitudes as they read the novel. Afterwards, they will choose one of the platitudes to be the subject of a writing assignment. The essay prompt requires them to support the platitude with two examples from the novel and one from their life.

Are you looking for an engaging activity to review the novel with your students? Check out my Question trail for Nothing But the Truth!

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You'll find 10 pages of the same activity. This is more suitable for students who have a foundation of parts of speech, not as a starting point, unless it's to informally assess.

Children will look at the provided image on each page, label it by the noun it is, describe it with at least 2 adjectives (there's enough space for 3), and think of a verb that could correspond to the noun. As the teacher or parent, you'll facilitate and guide as you need to. You know your kids.

Some images may get different responses, even for the noun section (e.g. baby versus person, or penguin versus cartoon). There isn't just one correct answer for some. Just make sure you print these in color and maybe practice one as a class/family as an example.

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Do you need an assessment template to assess your students' poetry writing skills? Then you should check out these Poetry Writing Assessment Templates! They are a great way to record your students' poetic writing skills through observations, teacher and student conferences and work samples! Includes a range of different templates to suit your teaching and assessing style!

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The theme of this French writing prompt unit is "Le jour de mon anniversaire . . ." This five day French writing program is suitable for immersion and core programs. The unit includes five pre-writing and writing activities for a whole week. These writing prompts are a great way both to introduce and to review writing in French.

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This writing prompt unit is included in my Full Year French Writing Prompt Curriculum and in my French Reading, Writing, Vocabulary Full Year Curriculum Bundle.

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This product is made for:

• adapting instruction

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This rubric looks at 5 different areas when students are being assessed on writing a story. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: the story outline relates with the graphic organizer, all parts of the story are written in sequential order, staying on task, grammar/punctuation/spelling, and working with others. This rubric scores the story writing assignment out of 15 possible points. The rating scale use is a 3, 2, 1, & 0.

This PowerPoint template has been designed to assist students in creating an upper elementary historical fictional book project. The editable slides are highly organized with titles of story elements needed for a thorough project. The end product may be used as a Reading assessment. Questions and prompts are included so students will always include all critical information.

Teachers can adapt the template to their needs and the needs of their students. The template is perfect to support Special Education students, ESL students, struggling students, or guide the entire class!

Fictional story mapping includes elements such as exposition, rising action, character traits, climax, turning point……. The slides are logically organized and allow for adding photos or drawings . Slides can be deleted and others added where needed.

This PowerPoint template will allow all students to complete their Reading Project, book report, or assessment and present an end product of which they are they proud!

Fourth of July Writing and Craft Activity

Get ready to celebrate Independence Day with this Fourth of July Writing and Craft Activity for students! This educational and fun activity will help students practice important reading and writing skills such as identifying the main idea, finding supporting details, identifying the conclusion, and summarizing key information.

This activity includes reading passages on The Evolution of Fourth of July BBQs and Why do we Barbecue on the Fourth of July? Students will learn about the history of barbecuing on the Fourth of July and how it has evolved over time, as well as the reasons why it has become a popular tradition.

Engage your students in a meaningful and engaging Fourth of July activity while also reinforcing important literacy skills. Don't miss out on this fun and educational resource!

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*These bell ringers are part of a larger bundle of resources.*

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These sentence diagramming bell ringers will last a full month. This resource contains four Google Slide presentations- one for each week. There is also an assessment for the end of those four weeks to test student knowledge. The daily activities should last 5-10 minutes.

This resource covers:

- Subject

- Predicate / Verb

- Helping Verbs

- Articles

- Adjectives

- Adverbs

Answers are included for all diagrams.

My bell ringers are color-coded. Red slides should be covered on Monday, yellow on Tuesday, green on Wednesday (missing from preview), blue on Thursday, and purple on Friday.

Sentence diagramming is so helpful when teaching students parts of speech and sentence structure. The repetitiveness of diagramming for a bell ringer is extremely beneficial for students. I tried grammar workbooks for years, but my students hardly retained anything. Daily sentence diagramming made them remember their parts of speech, and was an amazing foundation for my students to have when we started forming different types of sentences. They picked up on fixing run-ons quickly as well because of their diagramming foundation.

Explore the depths of learning with the Book Report | Book Review Lapbook (Level 2), specially designed for intermediate-level book enthusiasts. Ideal for primary-level, ESL/EFL, and homeschooling settings, this lapbook project offers engaging worksheet activities that foster a deeper understanding of any curriculum-relevant books or novels.

As students dive into the story and dissect its elements, they'll craft a comprehensive report and reflect personally to create a thorough review. Packed with imaginative and captivating images, this resource is the perfect companion for enriching book reading lessons in your classroom!

What’s included:

1. 2 styles of Title page – both for Book Report and Book Review (4 pages)

2. Name Page – for Individual and Group activities

3. Inner Overlap Page (2 Styles)

4. Plot Summary Page (6 styles)

5. About the Author Page

6. Characters Pocket

7. Character Cards (5 styles)

8. Story Setting Fold

9. Additional Information Fold

10. Book Ratings Page

11. Favorite Quotes Fold

12. Theme and Reflections Fold

Applications:

• Reading assessment tool
• Supplemental reading project
• Research activities
• Open-house showpiece
• Addition to students’ portfolio
• Components can be used as interactive notebook contents.

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Bat Opinion Writing and Craft Bulletin Board is art, writing and math, all in one great project!

After learning about bats with the included nonfiction text, have your students write an opinion piece about whether they think bats are creepy or cool. Afterwards, will have fun making their cute little bats!

This product makes a very impressive showcase of learning when you add in the graph, showing how many students think bats are creepy and how many think bats are cool!

Bat Opinion Writing and Craft Bulletin Board is a perfect way to decorate your bulletin board for October!

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This page provides you with a simple way to write anecdotal notes as you wander around the room observing your students working. This form is completely customizable allowing your to insert the goal, grade, term etc. There is space for each students name and a line for your comments/observations. This form is not subject specific.