5th Grade ELA Links
SCRABBLE OSPD (The Official Scrabble Dictionary -- for challenges)
You could listen to Mr. B read aloud other things for fun!
The Wild Robot Escapes / When You Reach Me / Momentous Event in the Life of Cactus
Born Different: Life With No Arms (goes with Insignificant Events... and Momentous Events...) (6m YT)
Theme v. Main Idea (6m YT)
Author's Purpose (3m YT)
Rules for Punctuating Dialogue (4m YT)
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WONDERS GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE
Wonders 1.2
Idioms: The Song (3m YT)
Wonders 1.3
Compound Subjects and Compound Predicates (3m YT)
Wonders 1.4
Spelling: Look out for Bossy R - r-controlled vowels (3m YT)
Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions (7m YT)
Simple, Compound, and Compex Sentences (7m YT)
Wonders 1.5
Run-on Sentences and Fragments (7m YT)
Independent v. Dependent Clauses (3m YT)
How to use a Semi-Colon (3m YT)
Wonders Unit 1 Review
What are INFERENCES? (8m YT)
How to find the THEME of a story (4m YT)
Brainpop: THEME in Star Wars (6m YT)
Wonders 2.1
Concrete/abstract nouns (3m YT)
Wonders 2.2
Plural Nouns - every possible kind (11m YT)
Wonders 2.4
NOUNS: Plural and Possessive (1m YT) and the song version! (3m YT)
Wonders 2.5
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases (4m YT)
Wonders 3.1
VERBS: Subject/Verb Agreement (5m Youtube/Khan Academy)
Wonders 3.2
VERBS: Present/past/future tenses (3m YT)
Wonders 3.3
VOICE: Active v. Passive (5m YT)
Wonders 4.1
PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (4m YT)
Wonders 4.2
Subject, object, relative, reflexive pronouns
Wonders 5.1
Independent / dependent clauses (4m YT)
Appositives (2m YT)
Wonders 5.2
Wonders 5.3
Wonder 5.4
Comparatives and Superlatives (4m YT)
POETRY
Diamante explained (2m YT)
Haiku (10m YT)
PIXAR PLOT LESSONS
For the Birds (4m YT)
Lifted (5m YT)
Burn-E (
Presto (7m YT)
Dug's Special Mission (5m YT)
WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM
Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole (4m YT)
Figurative Language: Onomatopoeia (2m YT)
Figurative Language: What's a Pun? Glove and Boots (5m YT)
Figurative Language: Analogy (2m YT)
Vid: The Children of Birmingham 1963 (10m YT)
Audiobook: Chapter 1 -- this YT channel has all chapters
SCRABBLE: How to Play (4min Youtube)
SCRABBLE: Official Scrabble Dictionary
WRITING RESOURCES
Word Hippo (find vivid words/synonyms -- courtesy of Eden)
SCRABBLE
How to play (13m YT)
ZOOS PERFORMANCE TASK
Here is an interesting introduction to pros and cons of zoos.
NUMBER THE STARS
Audio: Chapter 1 -- this YT channel has all chapters
Vid: Newsreel footage of the Nazi occupation of Denmark (8m YT)
Vid: Saving lives by boat (5m YT)
Vid: The Danish Resistance (7m YT)
INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN
Vid: The Vietnam War explained by a kid (7m YT)
WRITING DIAMANTE POETRY:
Diamante with Darian (10m YT)
WRITING HAIKU:
Haiku with Ms Bee (5m YT)
OLD YELLER
Old Yeller book (this is a readable online version -- if you want a searchable version of your hard copy)
Audio: Chapter 1 (YT 13:58)
Audio: Chapter 2 (YT 5:07)
Audio: Chapter 3 (YT 13:36)
Audio: Chapter 4 (YT 12:04)
Audio: Chapter 5 (YT 11:45)
Audio: Chapter 6 (YT 15:26)
Audio: Chapter 7 (YT 13:06)
Audio: Chapter 8 (YT 7:52)
Audio: Chapter 9 (YT 11:56)
Audio: Chapter 10 (YT 13:26)
Audio: Chapter 11 (YT 12:32)
Audio: Chapter 12 (YT 8:30)
Audio: Chapter 13 (YT 9:27)
Audio: Chapter 14 (YT 9:23)
Audio: Chapter 15 (YT 9:04)
Audio: Chapter 16 (YT 6:22)
NOUNS: Concrete v. Abstract (3m YT)
VERBS: Present progressive (4m YT)
VERBS: What are linking verbs? (3m YT)
TITLES: When to underline, when to put in quotation marks (3m YT)
TITLES: Capitalization Rules (3m YT)
You could listen to Mr. B read aloud other things for fun!
The Wild Robot Escapes / When You Reach Me / Momentous Event in the Life of Cactus
Born Different: Life With No Arms (goes with Insignificant Events... and Momentous Events...) (6m YT)
Theme v. Main Idea (6m YT)
Author's Purpose (3m YT)
Rules for Punctuating Dialogue (4m YT)
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WONDERS GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE
Wonders 1.2
Idioms: The Song (3m YT)
Wonders 1.3
Compound Subjects and Compound Predicates (3m YT)
Wonders 1.4
Spelling: Look out for Bossy R - r-controlled vowels (3m YT)
Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions (7m YT)
Simple, Compound, and Compex Sentences (7m YT)
Wonders 1.5
Run-on Sentences and Fragments (7m YT)
Independent v. Dependent Clauses (3m YT)
How to use a Semi-Colon (3m YT)
Wonders Unit 1 Review
What are INFERENCES? (8m YT)
How to find the THEME of a story (4m YT)
Brainpop: THEME in Star Wars (6m YT)
Wonders 2.1
Concrete/abstract nouns (3m YT)
Wonders 2.2
Plural Nouns - every possible kind (11m YT)
Wonders 2.4
NOUNS: Plural and Possessive (1m YT) and the song version! (3m YT)
Wonders 2.5
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases (4m YT)
Wonders 3.1
VERBS: Subject/Verb Agreement (5m Youtube/Khan Academy)
Wonders 3.2
VERBS: Present/past/future tenses (3m YT)
Wonders 3.3
VOICE: Active v. Passive (5m YT)
Wonders 4.1
PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (4m YT)
Wonders 4.2
Subject, object, relative, reflexive pronouns
Wonders 5.1
Independent / dependent clauses (4m YT)
Appositives (2m YT)
Wonders 5.2
Wonders 5.3
Wonder 5.4
Comparatives and Superlatives (4m YT)
POETRY
Diamante explained (2m YT)
Haiku (10m YT)
PIXAR PLOT LESSONS
For the Birds (4m YT)
Lifted (5m YT)
Burn-E (
Presto (7m YT)
Dug's Special Mission (5m YT)
WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM
Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole (4m YT)
Figurative Language: Onomatopoeia (2m YT)
Figurative Language: What's a Pun? Glove and Boots (5m YT)
Figurative Language: Analogy (2m YT)
Vid: The Children of Birmingham 1963 (10m YT)
Audiobook: Chapter 1 -- this YT channel has all chapters
SCRABBLE: How to Play (4min Youtube)
SCRABBLE: Official Scrabble Dictionary
WRITING RESOURCES
Word Hippo (find vivid words/synonyms -- courtesy of Eden)
SCRABBLE
How to play (13m YT)
ZOOS PERFORMANCE TASK
Here is an interesting introduction to pros and cons of zoos.
NUMBER THE STARS
Audio: Chapter 1 -- this YT channel has all chapters
Vid: Newsreel footage of the Nazi occupation of Denmark (8m YT)
Vid: Saving lives by boat (5m YT)
Vid: The Danish Resistance (7m YT)
INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN
Vid: The Vietnam War explained by a kid (7m YT)
WRITING DIAMANTE POETRY:
Diamante with Darian (10m YT)
WRITING HAIKU:
Haiku with Ms Bee (5m YT)
OLD YELLER
Old Yeller book (this is a readable online version -- if you want a searchable version of your hard copy)
Audio: Chapter 1 (YT 13:58)
Audio: Chapter 2 (YT 5:07)
Audio: Chapter 3 (YT 13:36)
Audio: Chapter 4 (YT 12:04)
Audio: Chapter 5 (YT 11:45)
Audio: Chapter 6 (YT 15:26)
Audio: Chapter 7 (YT 13:06)
Audio: Chapter 8 (YT 7:52)
Audio: Chapter 9 (YT 11:56)
Audio: Chapter 10 (YT 13:26)
Audio: Chapter 11 (YT 12:32)
Audio: Chapter 12 (YT 8:30)
Audio: Chapter 13 (YT 9:27)
Audio: Chapter 14 (YT 9:23)
Audio: Chapter 15 (YT 9:04)
Audio: Chapter 16 (YT 6:22)
NOUNS: Concrete v. Abstract (3m YT)
VERBS: Present progressive (4m YT)
VERBS: What are linking verbs? (3m YT)
TITLES: When to underline, when to put in quotation marks (3m YT)
TITLES: Capitalization Rules (3m YT)