Literature
Click on a title to find out more about the books we read in 5th Grade!
The Hundred Dresses by Elenor Estes
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DeCamillo
Holes by Louis Sachar
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis
RULES, by Cynthia Lord
Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan
CLASS READ-ALOUD:
CRASH, by Jerry Spinelli
THE BOYS START THE WAR, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
THE GIRLS GET EVEN, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, by L.M. Montgomery
...AND NOW MIGUEL, by Joseph Krumgold
Below is a list of vocabulary words your students will be learning this year and adding to their dialog: