Common Core Standards
Grade 5
Language L.5.5
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Your students should already have a basic understanding of figurative language and words with multiple definitions, but you'll need to ensure that they can apply these existing skills to the more complicated set of material they will be expected to master in the fifth grade.
Standard Components
Aligned Resources
- Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth: The Phantom Tollbooth WebQuest
- Teaching Seedfolks: Hi. Where Are You From?
- Teaching Seedfolks: How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Teaching The Borrowers: If I Could Turn Back Time: A Pre-reading Vocabulary Activity
- Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
- Teaching The Borrowers: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
- Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth: Write to Learn
- Teaching The Secret Garden: One Munnot Forget to Learn New Words
- Teaching The Borrowers: Keeping Up With the Korrowers