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Day Topic Pages

Day 1 Imagery 2–3

Day 2 Imagery 4–5

Day 3Comprehension: Answering Questions (Informational Text)

6–8

Day 4Comprehension: Answering Questions (Informational Text)

9–11

Day 5 Prepositions/Prepositional Phrases 12–13

Literacy Activities

Grade 5, Week 9Imagery, Comprehension, and Prepositions

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Watch the Day 1 LessonDay 1

Imagery consists of words, phrases, and sentences that help create a picture in the reader’s mind.

Imagery appeals to the reader’s senses.

Draw a picture based on each passage below. Your picture should highlight the sensory language from the passage.

1. The bright, yellow sun shone through the puffy, white clouds after the ear-splitting, booming thunderstorm.

2. The sweet, sugary smell of my grandmother’s gooey, layered, rich, chocolate cake fills the house.

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Day 1 (continued)Read each text below. Circle the words that appeal

to the reader’s senses.

1. Jorge wakes up every morning to the mouth-watering, delicious smell of salty, cheesy scrambled eggs. He quickly hops out of bed, throws on his soft, comfortable t-shirt, and races to the kitchen table. He can’t wait to take a giant bite of the warm, fluffy eggs.

2. Tiffany gently opens the heavy door and walks into the movie theater. She is greeted by the crackling sound of popcorn being made and the salty smell of melted butter. She buys her ticket and settles into the plump, cozy chair.

3. The bright, shining sun rises slowly over the horizon. The trees rustle softly in the wind and the squirrels quietly eat their tasty acorns. The dew glistens on the short blades of grass. Sara loves mornings.

4. The thunderous applause was deafening. Carol stood proudly on the stage, next to her shiny, sturdy piano. She looked out at the radiant faces in the crowd. She sat down at her piano and took a deep breath. Her fingers touched the cold keys and she began playing blissful, soothing music.


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Rewrite each sentence below to appeal to the reader’s senses. Use the words from the Word Bank to help.

1. Jessica walked past the flowers. __________________________________________________________________________

2. Frank swims in the water. __________________________________________________________________________

3. Anna took a bite of the apple. __________________________________________________________________________

4. Dawn petted her dog. __________________________________________________________________________

5. Pearl heard thunder. __________________________________________________________________________

Word Bank

juicy floral fresh garbled rotten minty

cold shiny muffled delicious booming soft

fluffy loud crisp sweet warm ear-splitting



Day 2 (continued)Write a story about each image that

will appeal to the reader’s senses.

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Read the text. Then, answer the questions on the next page.

A prickly giant lives in Arizona. It rises as high as 78 feet, which is as tall as 2 telephone poles stacked on each other. It can weigh as much as 4,800 pounds, which is about the weight of a car. This green giant isn’t just big, it’s also very old. The biggest ones are about 200 years in age.

So, exactly what is this supersize desert dweller? It is the saguaro cactus.

The saguaro cactus only lives in southern Arizona and northern Mexico, in the Sonoran Desert. The saguaro can be as tall and skinny as a pencil or it can also grow many arms that stick out from its body.

A cactus lives in a desert, so it needs to be able to store water. The saguaro’s body stores water with its pleats, or ribs, which expand with water when it rains. The pleats shrink back in when the weather gets dry.

Saguaros are covered in rows of hard, spiky needles. They help protect the plant from being eaten by animals. Since these plants are filled with water, they would naturally be very attractive to desert animals. Therefore, the needles deter animals from chowing down on a saguaro snack!

Ribs and Needles

Height Can get as tall as 78 feet

Weight Can get as heavy as 4,800 pounds

Number of Arms As many as 50

Age Up to 200 years old

Facts about the saguaro cactus

Rising Above the Desert Floor



Day 3 (continued)

1. Where is the saguaro cactus found? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

2. What does the saguaro cactus store inside? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

3. What covers the saguaro cactus? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

4. Why would animals be attracted to the saguaro cactus? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

5. How big can a saguaro cactus grow? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________


Day 3 (continued)Write 3 additional questions about the saguaro cactus that can

be answered by using the text. Use a question word like who, what, where, when, or why. Then, answer the questions.

1. Question: ________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Answer: _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

2. Question: ________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Answer: _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

3. Question: ________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Answer: _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________




Read the text. Then, answer the questions on the next page.

In 1848, a spark of gold changed history. It all started with a man in California who was working to build a sawmill on a river. Suddenly, he saw something shiny in the water. When he looked more closely, he realized that he had found bits of gold!

Word spread quickly about the gold in the river. People hurried to California from all over the country, hoping to find gold and get rich. Thousands of people traveled there, and new towns grew to support them. At first, people simply took gold out of the water, but as the gold became harder to find, they began mining the land. They used machines to dig for gold deep in the ground.

Years passed and soon most of the gold was gone and the mining had badly hurt the land. Still, people kept going west in search of more gold. As a result, the state of California grew, and today, it has more people than any other U.S. state.



Day 4 (continued)

1. When did the man in California first find gold? __________________________________________________________________________

2. Where did the man find gold in California? __________________________________________________________________________

3. Who else came to find gold? a. pirates b. people from all over the country c. a few people from the west

4. What did people use to dig for gold? __________________________________________________________________________

5. What did mining do to the land? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

6. Write a question that you have about the text. Use a question word like who, what, where, when, or why. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________


Day 4 (continued)

Think about your favorite animal. What makes it special? List 3 facts about the animal.

Fact 1: ______________________________________________________________________

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Fact 2: ______________________________________________________________________

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Fact 3: ______________________________________________________________________

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Write 3 questions that someone could answer about your favorite animal by reading your facts.

Question 1: _________________________________________________________________

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Question 2: _________________________________________________________________

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Question 3: _________________________________________________________________

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Prepositions are words that describe a relationship between 2 or more things in a sentence. They usually tell

when something happened or where it can be found.

Circle the prepositions in each sentence.

1. David leaped across the puddle on his way to school.

2. When I give my dog, Zeus, a treat, he likes to hide behind the couch and eat it.

3. I bike past the fire station on my way to Jenny’s house.

4. Raphael likes to sit between Tiana and Joanna during math class.

5. We walk over the bridge to get to the pond.

6. Jacob likes eating ice cream after dinner.

7. Sanmeet lives beside Eugene on Hastings Street.

8. The cat sometimes sleeps under the bed.

9. The bird peeks his head through the leaves to see what we are doing.

10. The picture is hanging above the dresser.

11. Before school, I always make a fruit smoothie.

12. Blake likes to keep her sweaters next to her shirts in her dresser.



Day 5 (continued)Choose a preposition and an object from the list below.

Then, write 5 sentences using the preposition and object pairs.

1. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

3. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

4. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

5. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

Prepositions

above

during

over

between

across

after

Objects

the movie

the tree

the flower

the river

school

the table

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