Fifth Grade - ELA
1: Relationships
Unit 1: Poetry
Lesson 1
What Is Poetry?
The student activity page explicitly instructs students to "Include the title for each poem that you reference for your answers below. Don't forget to enclose poem titles in quotation marks." Students are asked to record and cite poem titles in multiple activities (e.g., Poetry Vocabulary, Rhyming Patterns, Memorizing Poetry) and several example poem titles are shown enclosed in quotation marks throughout the text.
Lesson 2
Parts of Speech and Rhymes in Poetry
Students read and work with poems whose titles are shown in quotation marks (for example, "Gulls and Buoys", "Watercolor Maine", "Islands in Boston Harbor", and the quoted line "Washington D.C."). The lesson names books and poem collections (My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States; R is Rhyme) and asks students to read specific titled poems and to write an end-rhyme poem in their journals.
Lesson 6
Art and Poetry
The lesson explicitly tells students that "The titles of poems, songs, and short stories are enclosed in quotation marks." The Skills list and parental directions instruct students to "Write the names of poems, short stories, and musical compositions in quotation marks." Students are asked to write the title of their poem on the activity page and to write and check the name of a song and a poem, with a parent checking that titles are enclosed in quotation marks and capitalized properly.
Lesson 10
Inspired
The lesson consistently presents poem titles using quotation marks (for example, "Love That Dog," "Love That Boy," and "My Sky"). Students are asked to read, compare, and refer to these specific titled poems in activities and the graphic organizer, which requires them to work with the named works.
Unit 2: The View from Saturday
Lesson 2
Florida
Students are directed to read Chapter 2 and "Nadia Tells of Turtle Love," with that chapter title presented in quotation marks in the reading directions. Multiple student pages show titled headings such as "Noah's Story," "Nadia's Story," "Ethan's Story," "Julian's Story," and "Loggerhead Sea Turtles," providing examples of titles displayed in the materials. The quoted chapter title provides an instance of a title being indicated with quotation marks.
Lesson 5
Epiphany, New York
Students encounter a work title formatted with apparent italics in the student activity sentence: Ethan had never seen anything like *The Phantom of the Opera*. Students also see the same work title presented with quotation marks in the parent answer key: "The Phantom of the Opera."
Lesson 6
Adventures in Wonderland
Students encounter work titles shown with quotation marks in multiple places (e.g., Finish reading "Ethan Explains the B and B Inn" and the prompt to write your storyline for "Ethan's Story"). A sentence completion item also includes a title in quotes: Ethan ____________________ "Phantom of the Opera" when he saw it in Florida. These instances model the use of quotation marks around titles.
Lesson 7
Annie
Students encounter the title Annie in multiple places (the lesson title and sentences like "The high school is performing the musical "Annie."" and the Life Application "Watch the movie, Annie."). Students are shown that stage directions appear in italics and parentheses in scripts and are told that dialogue does not use quotation marks. The practice sentences include a quoted title as part of a sentence.
Unit 3: American Tall Tales and Legends
Lesson 2
Tales and Legends of the Northeast
Students encounter story and book titles set off with quotation marks throughout the materials (for example, Read the stories under "Women of the Northeast" in Cut from the Same Cloth and references to "Star Maiden," "Bess Call," and "Drop Star"). Students are prompted to record information under headings that include those quoted titles on multiple student activity pages (Women Characters, Hyperbole). The printed recipe and activity headings also name works (Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman) alongside quoted story titles, providing repeated models of using quotation marks for titles.
Lesson 3
Tales and Legends of the South
The lesson consistently presents story titles in quotation marks (e.g., "Annie Christmas," "Susanna and Simon," "Molly Cottontail," "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby"). Links and reading directions also show titles set off with quotation marks. These occurrences provide students with examples of one way titles are displayed in text.
Lesson 4
Tales and Legends of the Midwest
The lesson repeatedly presents story and page titles using quotation marks (for example, "Sal Fink," "Sweet Betsey from Pike," "Old Sally Cato," and "John Henry") and includes titled activity pages such as THE MISSISSIPPI and "Man vs. Machine." Student Activity Page descriptions and directions reference titled works and pages, modeling title presentation in the materials students read and use.
Lesson 5
Tales and Legends of the Southwest
Students are asked in Activity 6 Option 1 to list song titles and are explicitly told: "Also be sure to put the song title in quotation marks." The parent guidance reiterates this: "Make sure that the song titles are enclosed in quotation marks and that they are correctly capitalized." Multiple reading prompts and the Cowboy Capitalization page model titles in quotation marks (for example, "Pecos Bill," "Sister Fox and Brother Coyote").
Lesson 6
Tales and Legends of the West
Students encounter multiple examples of titles shown with quotation marks (e.g., Read "Hekeke" and "Hiiaka," Read the story "Paul Bunyan"). Students are asked to write a title on a book jacket spine and to label activity pages (e.g., "Ordering Paragraphs", "Story Book Jacket"), so they will produce titles in their own writing tasks. The lesson text consistently presents story and activity titles using quotation marks.
3: Discovery and Survival
Unit 1: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Lesson 3
Meeting House
The Student Activity Page text presents a map title in quotation marks: "Map of the Connecticut Colony." The Image section also names "Map of Connecticut Today," and several place names and labels appear in quotation marks in the page text. These instances show titles/labels presented with quotation marks within the lesson materials.
Final Project
Narrative Essay
Students read and work with an essay explicitly labeled as "Kit's Story: My Year in Connecticut," with the title presented in quotation marks in multiple places. The student activity pages and example paragraphs display the essay title in quoted form, exposing students to a formatted title. The directions ask students to write and publish a final copy of their narrative essay, during which they will include a title.
Unit 2: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Lesson 3
Memories
The lesson names Hans Christian Andersen stories and presents them with quotation marks ("The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid," and "The Princess and the Pea"). A Student Activity Page includes a Title line and asks students to enter the title of the story they compare. Several excerpts and activity pages are labeled with page numbers and decorative formatting that show titles and story headings in print form.
Lesson 6
Prometheus
The lesson text displays several titles using quotation marks, for example: the Parent Plan says your child will watch the short film "A Trip to the Moon," Activity 4 refers to the page titled "Prometheus and the Story of Fire," and Activity 6 directs the student to write on the page "Two Thieves?." Link and Student Activity Page titles are consistently presented in quotation marks throughout the materials. These instances show modeling of a title-formatting convention in the printed text students read.
Unit 3: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Final Project
Persuasive Essay
Students are directed to "read an example of a five paragraph persuasive essay called "Recycling."" The Student Activity Page is titled "Recycling" and the sample essay's paragraphs (Introduction, Body, Conclusion) are presented with that title in quotation marks.
4: Systems
Unit 2: Lincoln
Lesson 3
A Lawyer and Politician
The lesson includes a chapter reference written as Read Chapter 3, "Law and Politics," which models using quotation marks around a work's title. The lesson also displays several page and activity titles (for example, Title: A Lawyer and Politician; Title: Combining Sentences with Participle Phrases) that show titles in context.
Lesson 4
Slavery
Students encounter a titled work formatted with quotation marks in the reading directions: Read Chapter 4, "Half Slave and Half Free," which models using quotation marks for a chapter title. The Student Activity Page also labels the student product with a title (Title: Writing a Speech), providing another example of a work title presented in the materials.
Lesson 6
Civil War
Students encounter chapter and page titles presented with quotation marks, for example: Read Chapter 6, "This Dreadful War," and Student Activity Pages titled "To Fight or Not to Fight" and "Interview Questions." The Gettysburg Address is presented as a titled speech (Activity 2: Gettysburg Address), giving students multiple written examples of title presentation in the text.
Lesson 7
Assassination
Students encounter a titled work in the appositive exercise where the play is presented as *Our American Cousin* (using asterisks to indicate italics) and are asked to combine sentences that include that title. The parent answer key also shows the combined sentence, "Lincoln was shot while watching the play, Our American Cousin," which has students write the title within a sentence. The newspaper-report activity asks students to write a headline and article, giving them opportunity to include titles in their own writing.
Unit 3: Independent Study
Lesson 4
Finding Information
The lesson gives explicit bibliographic formatting rules that tell students to underline or italicize book and film titles and to place article or entry titles in quotation marks (e.g., "Title of the book underlined or italicized"; "Article title in quotes"). The website and encyclopedia citation instructions similarly specify using quotation marks for page/entry titles and underlining/italics for the site or encyclopedia name. The lesson also tells students to use quotation marks when they copy exact words and includes a "Sample Bibliography" with formatted examples for students to model.
