Fifth Grade Ideas Sharing

To personalize your classroom focus wall have your students bring in regalia that supports the theme. Use these parent letters to request help in gathering materials, books, artifacts, and pictures to display in your room.
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Thanks to Jeff Siler from Perris, California and his fellow teachers for sharing their hard work. Check out these files:
Speaking to Persuade
Characteristics of Narrative Nonfiction for Earthquake Terror

The link below will produce a one-page list of the fifth grade comprehension skills taught in the Houghton Mifflin Reading Program. Use a poster maker to enlarge this page for your focus wall. Then use an arrow or other icon to indicate the weekly comprehension skill focus.
Comprehension Skills for Fifth Grade

Check out this Proofreading Marks poster. Make individual copies for your students or enlarge it with the poster maker for a classroom reference. The proofreading marks taught in the Houghton Mifflin program begin with just a few in first grade and build to the full set you see on this poster. Proofreading or Editing posters purchased commercially may be very different than the ones taught and used in the HM Reading Program.
Proofreading Marks Poster