Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

3.5.1 Make-a-Map Ideas

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Make a map that explains how the First Conditional is formed. Use snapshots from the movie, images, or text to illustrate conditions and results or cause and effect sentences. Make a map about ...

3.4.1 Make-a-Map Ideas

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Make a map illustrating one of the multiple meaning words from this movie: beat or exercise. Make a map explaining the circulatory system. Take snapshots of 1-3 moments that give examples of...

3.6.5 Idioms and Vocabulary Review

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In the BrainPOP ELL movie Area of Rectangles (L3U6L5), Ben and Moby want to install glow-in-the-dark wallpaper in their tree house. But they soon discover that putting up the wallpaper is trickier tha...

3.6.1 Relative Pronouns Lesson Plan

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In the BrainPOP ELL movie Action! (L3U6L1), Ben and Moby make a movie about their school. The two are having so much fun reminiscing about their school days, that they don’t realize the mistake they’v...

3.4.1 Gerunds and Circulatory System Lesson Plan

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In the BrainPOP ELL movie Circulatory System (L3U4L1), Ben and Moby are biking up a big hill. Moby is exhausted as he tries to keep up with Ben. When Moby wonders why they had to work so hard, Ben rem...

1.4.2 Agent Nouns (-er Endings) Lesson Plan

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In the BrainPOP ELL movie We Don’t Need One (L1U4L2), Moby wants to join Ben’s band, but they don't need any of the instruments he plays. In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades K-8, students transf...

Reading Comprehension Lesson Plan: Using Context Clues

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In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 3-12, students will use BrainPOP resources to learn about context clues and practice using context clues as a reading comprehension strategy....

Dr. King, Similes and Metaphors Lesson Plan: Identifying Literary Conventions in a Historical Speech

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In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3 to 5, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the purpose of similes and metaphors. Students will identify examples of simile use in specific hi...