Grade 5
Literature

Painting by Johann Georg Meyer Von Bremen

Doing Heidi and Lassie Come Home with guides

Reading Fiction
Terms

• Setting
• Plot
• Characters
• Tone
• Allusion
• Symbols
• Theme

Analyzing

• The story is told from whose point of view?
• What is the narrator's tone?
• Who is the protagonist and how does he or she develop during the course of the story? The protagonist is in conflict with-- what or whom?
• How does one character compare with another?
• What symbols are used?
• What is the theme?
• How does the author use setting, plot, characters, and symbols to support the theme?

Read and narrate

Read to me and narrate

Free Reading

Fifth Grade:

• An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott
• The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff
• Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
• The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Graham
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  

Read Aloud

Fifth Grade:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum
• Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  

Family Read Alouds

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AUDIO

• Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates Mary Mapes DODGE (1831 - 1905)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3) Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE (1859 - 1930)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2) Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lew WALLACE (1827 - 1905)
• The Blockade Runners Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905)
• Robinson Crusoe (version 2) Daniel DEFOE (c.1660 - 1731)
• The Swiss Family Robinson Johann David WYSS (1743 - 1818) and Johann Rudolf WYSS (1782 - 1830)
• Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice BURROUGHS (1875 - 1950)
• Treasure Island (Version 4) Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850 - 1894)
• Uncle Remus Joel Chandler HARRIS (1848 - 1908)

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The Journey to the Center of…
by Jules Verne
Originally published in French in 1864, the first English translation of this classic of adventure and science fiction was published in 1871. The…

A Fifth Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold