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Grade 05 ELA - EC: E05.D.1.2.4

Grade 05 ELA - EC: E05.D.1.2.4

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Grade Levels

5th Grade

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Activities

  1. Identify titles of works in sentences.

  2. State rules for using underlining, quotation marks, and italics to indicate titles of works.
  1. Determine what type of title the title found in a sentence is.

  2. Apply understanding of the use of using underlining, quotation marks, and italics to titles in sentences by correcting various sentences.
    1. I love Dr. Seuss's, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
    2. One of my favorite episodes of Star Trek was called The Trouble with Tribbles.
    3. Susan will sing The Star-Spangled Banner at the baseball game tomorrow night.
    4. The song Tomorrow is from my favorite musical Annie.
    5. My aunt sent me a subscription to Sports Illustrated for Christmas.
  1. Explain why given titles are marked with underlining, quotation marks, or italics.

  2. Construct sentences that correctly mark titles of many types. 

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. Student identifies titles in writings. Depending on background knowledge, for some titles, students might need to do research to find out if a suspected title truly is a title.  

  2. Student states rules for using underlining, italics, and quotation marks with titles of works.

    1. Italics or underlining are used for titles of magazines, books, newspapers, academic journals, films, television shows, long poems, plays, operas, musical albums, works of art, and websites. When the writing is hand-written, use underlining. When the writing is word-processed, use italics
    2. Quotation marks are used for newspaper articles, magazine articles, poems, short stories, songs, chapters, and episodes of television shows.
  1. Student identifies if the title is a book, movie, newspaper, chapter, article, etc.  For some that are not common knowledge, the student may need to do some research to find the right category.  It is important to categorize the title type as different types of titles require different markings.

  2. Student applies understanding of the use of using underlining, quotation marks, and italics to titles in sentences with the following corrections:

    1. I love Dr. Seuss’s,  Oh, the Places You'll Go!
    2. One of my favorite episodes of Star Trek was called “The Trouble with Tribbles.”
    3. Susan will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the baseball game tomorrow night.
    4. The song “Tomorrow” is from my favorite musical Annie.
    5. My aunt sent me a subscription to Sports Illustrated for Christmas.
  1. Student explains why given titles are marked with underlining, quotation marks, or italics. This requires the student to identify titles, correctly classify the title as the correct type of title, and mark the title correctly.  Being able to “prove” why a title is marked as it is assures that the student understands the rule. 

  2. Student constructs sentences that correctly mark titles with underlining, quotation marks, or italics. Using titles correctly should be evident in a variety of venues including stand-alone sentences as well as being a part of larger writings.
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