Asking and Answering Questions: Stories and Science — Grade 5

Watch It · Read It · Prove It.

Your 5th grade English learners need to prove their answers with the exact words from the text. This lesson teaches them how, with a story and a science text, one small, visible step at a time: ask, find, quote, and name the paragraph.

What's inside

• Start Here guide with one-click "Make a copy" buttons for the Google Slides and Google Form
• Google Slides: a story lesson and a science lesson, 79 slides, speaker notes marked I DO · WE DO · YOU DO
• Student packet (44 pages): fluency drills, 4 original texts (2 stories, 2 science texts) with numbered paragraphs, Read & Collect organizers, Practice 1–4, a printable Check-Up, and a "How did I do?" self-check
• Read & Collect Organizer: a separate page to print for any text
• Google Form Check-Up: 1 story + 1 science text, 16 questions, self-grading (18 points)
• Teacher guide: 8-session plan, answer keys, scoring rubrics, mastery tracker, next teaching steps, and sources for the science texts

Learning target: I can ask and answer questions about a text and prove my answers with the exact words and the paragraph number.

Language objective: I can say, then write, a complete-sentence answer that quotes the text and names the paragraph.

Made for ESL small groups, reading intervention, and tutoring. Original stories and science texts.

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