Grammar Practice

• Sentence Sea Park
• Subject Slide
• Predicates in Space
• Sentences
• Subjects/Nouns
• Predicates/Verbs
• Quotation Marks and Colons

Spelling Practice

• Words with Short Vowels
• Words with Long a, e, and i
• Long o and Long u
• Vowels before r
• Words with s, z, and sh

The Hot and Cold Summer

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Interactive Work for Students @ School and Home
• Harcourt Reading Skills Rocket - Prefixes, Suffixes, & Roots
• Harcourt Test Tutor - Prefixes, Suffixes, & Roots
• Pet Bird Page - Parrots
• Fact Monster - Mimosa tree
• Harper Collins Author Johanna Hurwitz
• Johanna Hurwitz

Sees Behind Trees

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Interactive Work for Students @ School and Home
• Compare & Contrast Genres - Historical & Realistic Fiction
• Harcourt Reading Skills Rocket - Narrative Elements
• Harcourt Test Tutor - Narrative Elements
• Harcourt Building Background - Sounds
• Native American information
• Native American culture and photographs
• Nearsightedness
• Scholastic Author Michael Dorris
• Sees Behind Trees Book Talk

Poetry: When Birds Remember, Limerick, & Haiku

Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family

Dear Mrs. Parks

Aesop's Fables

Elena

Theme 2 "Team Work"

Skills Based Activities

Comprehension

Draw Conclusions / Summarize & Paraphrase

          Draw Conclusions Practice
          Conclusion Story 1
          Conclusion Story 2
 
Literary Response and Analysis
Figurative Language

         Figurative Language

         Figurative Language Worksheet
 
Language
Sentences, Clauses, and Nouns
          Compound Sentences
          Clauses: Building Blocks for Sentences
          Identifying Independent Clauses

          Nouns Practice
          Common and Proper Nouns

We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente

Folk Tales from Asia

Iditarod Dream

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary Review
• Harcourt Reading Skills Rocket - Draw Conclusions
• Harcourt Test Tutors - Draw Conclusions
• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Official Site
• Scholastic Iditarod
• Mushing Videos
• Junior Iditarod Official Site
• Iditarod: Race Across Alaska

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Theme 3 "A Changing Planet"

Everglades

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Everglades PowerPoint Introduction (Poem & Pictures)
• Oakland Zoo Use this alphabetical index to locate information on animals such as the alligator.
• Georgia Southern University's Raptor Center
• Wild Bird Photography Library - Hawks and Falcons
• Live Eagle Cam
• Animal Bytes
• Animal Sounds
• Small Wonders Baby Animals

Summer of Fire

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Yellowstone National Park
• Smokey Bear wildfire
• Eduplace Author Patricia Lauber
• NPS Geysers
• Yellowstone Geyser Video

Smoke Jumpers

• Smoke jumpers

Oceans

• Story Guide - No Story Guide available
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Enchanted Learning - Oceans
• Oceans Alive
• Author Seymour Simon
• Eduplace Author Seymour Simon
• Oceanslive (Grades 4-12)
  http://www.oceanslive.org/portal/
  <<This extensive website provides a wealth of information about oceans and
  more. [The teacher section]... includes 10+ videos, lesson plans,
  standards, and links to other websites. The lessons are searchable by
  standard. This website uses the National Science Education Standards.

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary Review
• Space Video
• Solarviews images and astronauts
• Apollo 8 Images
• Amazing Space - Interactive space info and trading cards
• NASA kids' activities
• Enchanted Learning solar system and astronomy
• Eduplace Author Patricia Lauber

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Science Fiction Hall of Fame
• Fantasy and Science Fiction
• Author Seymour Simon
• Eduplace Author Seymour Simon

Skills Based Activities

  

Vocabulary

Word Relationships / Classify & Categorize
          Multiple Meaning Words
          Synonyms Match Antonyms Match
          Synonyms & Antonyms
          Classify & Categorize Words
          Identify the Source
          Categories
 
Comprehension
Fact and Opinion
          Fact or Opinion Quiz
          Fact & Opinion
 
Language
Pronouns, Adjectives, and Verbs
          Pronouns Quiz
          Adjectives & Adverbs
          Parts of Speech

Hattie's Birthday Box

Greek Myth - Pandora's Box

• Mythweb Greek Myths
• Historyforkids Greek Myths

William Shakespeare and the Globe

Proverbs - African Proverbs

• Proverbs from many countries including Africa
• Commonly Used Proverbs - Includes games and quizzes
• African Proverbs, Sayings, and Stories - Proverbs in African language and English. Links to countries of origin.

The World of William Joyce Scrapbook

Satchmo's Blues

Brass Instruments

• See and hear brass instruments
• Wikipedia - Brass Instruments

Evelyn Cisneros, Prima Ballerina

Poetry - Celebration & Eagle Flight

Theme 5 "School Rules"

Off and Running

• Story Guide

• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Elections lesson plans
• Ben Franklins guide to government
• Picture and info of the Virgin of Guadalupe
• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Cesar Chavez
• Campaign commercials of previous presidents
• Eduplace Author Gary Soto
• Author Gary Soto

Poem - About Notebooks

Dear Mr. Henshaw

The Chinese Language Puzzle

• Interactive Chinese Language Puzzle

Frindle

Anecdote - Children and Poetry

The Fun They Had

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Encarta Isaac Asimov
• Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
• Information about life and schools from 1912 and 1945 to more recent times
• Author Isaac Asimov
• Pictures of old punch cards
• Fantasy and science fiction

Skills Based Activities

  

Vocabulary

Connotation/Denotation
       Connotative/Denotative Quiz
          Connotative Meaning of Words
          Connotation/Denotation
 
Comprehension
Text Structure: Cause and Effect
          Cause & Effect
          Quia Cause/Effect Matching 1
          Quia Cause/Effect Matching 2
          Cause/Effect Paragraphs
 
Research and Information Skills
References and Resources
          Reference Choice
          Quia Reference Choice 2
          Quia Reference Choice 3
          References & Resources

Language
Tenses, Contractions, Adverbs, and Phrases
          Subject/Verb Activity
          BrainPOP Contractions Video
          Contractions Game
          Contractions

Name This American

Tall Tale - Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett

• Read Sally Ann and other tall tales and take quiz.
   

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Ben Franklin Biography and links
• PBS Ben Franklin time line and info
• Eduplace Author Jean Fritz
• Ben Franklin with electricity
• More Ben Franklin with electricity
• Ben Franklin time line, bio, quotes, interesting facts

Lewis and Clark

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• PBS Interactive trail map
• National Geographic Go West with Lewis and Clark
• Lewis and Clark mapping the West
• Lewis and Clark writings
• Lewis and Clark Virtual Field Trip

Song - America the Beautiful

• America the Beautiful - Music and words to sing along

Black Frontiers

• Story Guide
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary Review
• Plainsfolks - Sod house
• Biographies of Black pioneers
• Conestoga wagon diagram
• Nicodemus
• Baseball player Satchel Paige

• West Allegheny Schools - Excellent link to activities for all Grade 5 Harcourt Reading selections.
• Cyberguides: Grades 4-5
• Flat Stanley
• Poetry - Read poems on-line
• Literary Graffiti
• Music - Orchestra & instruments
• Persuasion Map - On-line graphic organizer for persuasion essay
• Plot Diagram - On-line graphic organizer with beginning, middle, end
• Time Line - On-line tool to create
• Venn Diagram - On-line tool to create
• Book Reports - Ideas for nontraditional book reports
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - Teaching resources
• Absolutely Whootie - Stories to Grow By
• Reader's Theater Editions - Plays
• Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays - More plays
• Animals, Myths, Legends, Fables - Stories
• Beauty & the Beast - Story
• Literature Ladders -  Book & Technology Connections
• Reading Plans - Summarizing, Sequencing, Structure
• Score - Literature Guides & Phonics - Cyberguides lesson plans for novels
• Text Structure - Activities and lesson plans
• Poetry - Poems, lessons, & activities
• Idioms - Funbrain games to choose meanings of idioms