SALTA 5th grade

General Instructions

Pacing This curriculum map provides guidance for planning instruction using the Utah Core Standards and the Reading Street © 2013 curriculum. Following the map will allow students to access ALL core standards by the end of the year. To support students’ mastery of the standards, text aligned comprehension standards have been identified for each main selection, as well as, a scope and sequence of foundational standards. Attending to text aligned standards and the scope and sequence of foundational standards will allow teachers to focus instruction for the given unit/week and better assess students’ understanding of each stand ard. Units There are six units that are to be covered over the course of the school year. Each unit represents five weeks of instruction for grades 2-5, and 6 weeks of instruction for grades K-1. Flexible days have been allotted for each unit. Flexible days can be used at any time within a unit for the purpose of: 1) Extended time on a standard(s) 2) Review, extension, frontload 3) Performance tasks 4) Science and Social Studies 5) Unfinished Learning. Big Question and Question of the Week These questions provide an anchor for a thematic unit of instruction and are represented in the classroom on a Concept Board. Questions are referred to during Content Knowledge, Concept Talk, Concept Mapping, Main Selection, and in content integration when the question supports Science and/or Social Studies standards. Assessment Assessment options include student observation, progress monitoring, Weekly Tests, Fresh Reads, Unit Tests, and Writing to Sources Prompts. Through the use of the Realize platform for online assessment, teachers can access reports to support student goal-setting and assessment. District-wide Standard-based Assessments are used as our common district assessments. The ELA Writing DWSBA is mandatory and is given during a common assessment window. Homework The struggle to develop independent reading skills and language arts skills should occur while the teacher is available to support and scaffold the learning and correct student errors. Work that is sent home for students to complete should consist of concepts and skills that have been taught in class, been practiced, and the student can do independently. Homework should be used to build automaticity of skills already acquired and not for development of new skills without instruction. For appropriate homework practice, please see the Reading Street Study Skill Pages available on the ISD website.