The Most Trusted Name In Learning® GRADE 5 The Most Trusted Name In Learning® (cid:57) (cid:90)(cid:72)(cid:78)(cid:72)(cid:74)(cid:88)(cid:88)(cid:6)(cid:61)(cid:78)(cid:105)(cid:89)(cid:77) (cid:96)(cid:107)(cid:96)(cid:101)(cid:94) c. n c I sti a ol h c S © ht g yri p o C Scholastic Success With Writing • Grade 5 State Standards Correlations To find out how this book helps you meet your state’s standards, log on to www.scholastic.com/ssw Scholastic Inc. grants teachers permission to photocopy the reproducible pages from this book for classroom use. No other part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. c. n Written by Barbara Adams c I Cover design by Ka-Yeon Kim-Li sti a Interior illustrations by Susan Hendron hol c Interior design by Quack & Company S © ht ISBN-13 978-0-545-20075-2 yrig ISBN-10 0-545-20075-X op C Copyright © 2002, 2010 Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 40 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 Scholastic Success With Writing • Grade 5 Introduction One of the greatest challenges teachers face is helping students develop independent writing skills. Each writing experience is unique and individualized, making it each student’s responsibility to plan, expand, and proofread his or her work. However, high-interest topics and engaging exercises in this book will both stimulate and encourage young students as they develop the necessary skills to become independent writers. This book uses these strategies to introduce grade-appropriate skills that can be used in daily writing assignments such as journals, stories, and letters. Like a stepladder, this book will help students reach the next level of independent writing. Table of Contents Body Facts (Writing sentences) ................ 4 Read Carefully (Proofreading) ................. 24 Get the Scoop (Writing questions for interviews) 5 Working Together (Writing from an illustration) 25 Clearly Interesting (Expanding sentences) ...... 6 Make It Exact (Choosing exact words) ......... 26 Sentence Sense (Making meaning clearer) ...... 7 It’s All Business! (Writing a business letter) .... 27 Get to the Point (Eliminating unnecessary The Power of Persuasion (Using facts and words in sentences) ......................... 8 opinions to persuade) ...................... 28 Lots of Words (Fixing run-on sentences) ........ 9 Step by Step (Using time order in paragraphs) . 29 A Capital Adventure (Capitalizing) ............ 10 Finding the Way (Writing directions) .......... 30 And the Winner Is . . . (Using commas Definitely Dynamic (Writing a definition in sentences) ................................11 paragraph) ................................. 31 Listen to the Music (Combining subjects, Read and Review (Writing a book review) ..... 32 objects, and predicates) .................... 12 A Great Way to Organize (Using an outline to That’s Deep! (Combining sentences using organize information) ...................... 33 appositives) ................................ 13 Getting Organized (Organizing facts and Rise and Shine (Combining sentences using details into paragraphs) ................ 34–35 subordinate conjunctions) .................. 14 The Narrator (Writing from different points Time to Experiment (Combining sentences to of view) ................................ 36–37 make compound sentences) ................ 15 Make a Plan (Planning a story) ................ 38 Solve the Problem (Combining details from Time to Talk (Punctuating dialogue) ........... 39 c. n several sentences) .......................... 16 c I The Tone of Talk (Using words other asti Powerful Paragraphs (Identifying the parts than said) .............................. 40–41 ol Sch of a paragraph) ............................ 17 Grab Some Interest (Expanding paragraphs) ... 42 © ht Grab Some Attention (Writing topic sentences) 18 Figuratively Speaking (Using metaphors, similes, g pyri The Mighty End (Writing strong endings) ...... 19 personification, and hyperbole) ............. 43 o C In the Know (Writing supporting details for Writing Wonderful Words (Using alliteration topic sentences) ........................ 20–21 and assonance) ............................. 44 A Scrumptious Topic (Learning more about Crack! Splat! (Using onomatopoeia) ........... 45 topic and supporting sentences) ........ 22–23 Answer Key ............................... 46–48 Scholastic Success With Writing • Grade 5 3 Name Writing sentences Body Facts A sentenceis a group of words that expresses a complete thought. There are four kinds of sentences. A declarative sentenceis a statement. It gives information and ends with a period. I just finished a really cool article about the body. An interrogative sentenceis a question. It asks for information and often begins with who, what, where, when, why, or how. A question ends with a question mark. What is the title of the article? An imperative sentenceis a command. It tells or asks someone to do something. A command usually ends with a period but can also end with an exclamation point. Tell me where you read it. Hurry up and tell me! An exclamatory sentenceis an exclamation. It shows strong feeling or emotion and ends with an exclamation point. I can’t wait to read it now! Use any or all of the words in each group to write four kinds of sentences. One sentence has been completed for you. Begin and end each sentence correctly. do how you many times breathe minute is per that count twenty humans fast How many times per minute do humans breathe? Interrogative: __________________________________________________________________________ Declarative: __________________________________________________________________________ Imperative: __________________________________________________________________________ Exclamatory: __________________________________________________________________________ sixty-five believe the is body water about percent I it don’t really Interrogative: __________________________________________________________________________ Declarative: __________________________________________________________________________ Imperative: __________________________________________________________________________ Exclamatory: __________________________________________________________________________ how did read small twenty-two long you are the feet about intestines Interrogative: __________________________________________________________________________ Declarative: __________________________________________________________________________ Imperative: __________________________________________________________________________ Exclamatory: __________________________________________________________________________ 4 Scholastic Success With Writing: Grade 5 © Scholastic Teaching Resources Page 4 Possible sentences:How many times per minute do humans breathe?;Humans breathe twenty times per minute.;Count how many times you breathe.;How fast you breathe! Is the body really sixty-five percent water?;The body is about sixty-five percent water.;Believe it.;I don’t believe it is sixty-five percent water! Did you read how long the small intestines are?;The small intestines are about twenty-two feet long.;Read about how long the small intestines are.;How long the small intestines are! Name Writing questions for interviews Get the Scoop Have you ever interviewed anyone? What kinds of questions did you ask? Were they clear and complete? Who, What, Where, When, Why, or Howat the beginning of a sentence usually signals a question. A helping verb such as Is, Are, Was, Were, Do, Does, Did, Can, or Couldat the beginning of a sentence also signals a question. How did you get your start? Did you get your start in school? What was your first role? Was Peter Pan your first role? Why do you enjoy acting? Do you enjoy acting because it’s fun? Which kinds of questions do you think would help you gather more information? For each category, write the name of a person you would like to interview. Then write several questions you would ask to learn more about the person. Try to avoid questions with yes or no answers. 1. an interesting fictional character:____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. an early explorer: __________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. a favorite rock star: ________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. someone you admire: ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. an elderly person: __________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 6. a founding father of the United States: ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Think of a person in your everyday life you could interview, such as a grandparent, business owner, local politician, or police officer. Ask to interview the person. Prepare a list of questions ahead of time. Record the person’s responses. Share the results with friends, classmates, or family members. Scholastic Success With Writing: Grade 5 © Scholastic Teaching Resources 5 Name Expanding sentences Clearly Interesting A sentence may be very simple, but you can make it more interesting by adding adverbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases. When you add to a sentence, you expand it. The kitten ran. adjectives adverb prepositional phrase The frightened, little kitten ran quickly under the bed. Add to each list of adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases that has been started. Adjectives Adverbs Prepositional Phrases lonely calmly over the bridge with my friends old eagerly through the woods until noon friendly continuously across the lake of commuters beautiful frequently out of the building toward the moon cranky yesterday during rush hour into the water ________________ ________________ ____________________________________________ ________________ ________________ ____________________________________________ ________________ ________________ ____________________________________________ ________________ ________________ ____________________________________________ ________________ ________________ ____________________________________________ Use some of the words and phrases from above to expand each sentence. 1. The baby cried. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Thousands left.______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. The man walked. __________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. The students sat. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. I went. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ A complete sentence has two parts. The subject part tells whom or what the sentence is about. The predicate part tells what the subject is or does. Reread the sentences you expanded. Draw a line between the subject part and the predicate part. 6 Scholastic Success With Writing: Grade 5 © Scholastic Teaching Resources Name Making meaning clearer Sentence Sense It is important to choose and arrange the words and phrases in your sentences so that what you intend to say is clear to your readers. Eating a bowl of curds and whey, a spider frightened Miss Muffet away. Who was eating the curds and whey, the spider or Miss Muffet? You are probably familiar with the nursery rhyme, so you know that it was Miss Muffet, but the intended meaning is not clear in the above sentence. Notice the difference in the revised sentence. While Miss Muffet was eating a bowl of curds and whey, a spider frightened her away. The intended meaning is unclear in the sentences below. Rearrange each sentence to make the meaning clear. As you revise, remember that you can also add and remove words. There may be more than one possible way to fix each sentence. 1. When she was just a puppy, my sister taught Sunshine many tricks. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The students cheered for their team in the bleachers. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. My mother for teasing my little brother scolded me. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. The saleswoman sold shirts to the tourists with rainbows on them. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. As a preschooler, Dad taught me to read. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Perching on top of the cage, I noticed that our parakeet was missing a tail feather. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Wading in the shallow water, just 20 feet away porpoises were swimming from us. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Grandma has a garden behind the old, dilapidated shed that is unbelievable. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 9. While emptying the dishwasher this morning, the dog started barking at me. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 10. We heard about the missing painting that was found on the news today. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Reread some of your recent writing. Look for several sentences in which the intended meaning is not as clear as it could be. Write the sentences on a piece of paper. Then revise each one. Ask someone you know to read and compare each pair of sentences. Scholastic Success With Writing: Grade 5 © Scholastic Teaching Resources 7 9.While I was emptying the dishwasher this morning, the dog started barking at me. 10.On the news today, we heard about the missing painting that was found. Page 7 Possible sentences:1.My sister taught Sunshine many tricks when she was just a puppy. 2.The students in the bleachers cheered for their team. 3.My mother scolded me for teasing my little brother. 4.The saleswoman sold shirts with rainbows on them to the tourists. 5.Dad taught me to read when I was a preschooler. 6.I noticed that our parakeet was missing a tail feather while it was perching on top of the cage. 7.While we were wading in the shallow water, porpoises were swimming just 20 feet away from us. 8.Behind the old, dilapidated shed, Grandma has a garden that is unbelievable.