The students will be using a classroom textbook, Venture Magazine , a weekly publication that is lectionary based and a text, Walking By Faith . We are also involved in service projects and attend school Masses twice a month. Home activities are suggested for parent participation. These books provide a richer language exposure and influence their writing ability and style. Fifth graders are required to read one book per month based on a theme.
Students use many forms of writing, such as stories, reports, poems, and plays.
They also write for different purposes - to ask for information, to express feelings, to summarize what they have learned. Students learn to edit their writing to improve ideas and content, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency and conventions. Important selections go through several drafts as students polish their writing for publication in some way. We use the Silver Burdett text, English . The fifth grade program also focuses on speaking and listening skills.