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Grade 5Home Connection

A Family Packet for every module, in English and Spanish. A five-minute conversation that carries the learning home, never a pile of assignments.
PURPOSE
This page holds one Family Packet for every Grade 5 module, in English and in Spanish.
RATIONALE
A five minute conversation at home carries the day's learning forward without adding a pile of assignments, and a student hears the same ideas from family and teacher.
HOW TO USE THIS PAGE
Open any module to print or view its Family Packet. Send it home in English, Spanish, or both.
Open any module to print or view its Family Packet in English or Spanish: a family letter, a tip sheet on how to help without giving the answer, key words, the thinking tool your student uses, conversation starters and a family activity, what strong work looks like, and a progress at home checklist.
Prepare4 family packets
Module 1The Writing Job Comes Before the FormatEnglishEspañol
Module 2Purpose and Audience Change the ResponseEnglishEspañol
Module 3Choose the Route and the Planning HABITEnglishEspañol
Module 4Independent Genre Decision and TransferEnglishEspañol
Cluster 14 family packets
Module 1Understanding and Upgrading Thinking Levels in WHY and HOW ResponsesEnglishEspañol
Module 2Writing a Strong Thesis (Central Idea) Using TOPIC, CHARGE, and ANSWEREnglishEspañol
Module 3Using Evidence to Support ThinkingEnglishEspañol
Module 4Writing the Explanation SentenceEnglishEspañol
Cluster 24 family packets
Module 1Understanding the Structure of an ECR through the TREE Model and Prompt AnalysisEnglishEspañol
Module 2Writing Strong Thesis (Central Idea) Statements with the Three Required PartsEnglishEspañol
Module 3The Reason/Way Branch of the ECR Tree - Magnifying Reasons and Ways into BasketsEnglishEspañol
Module 4The Evidence Branch of the ECR Tree Choosing Evidence with CSIEnglishEspañol
Cluster 34 family packets
Module 1Building the Full ECREnglishEspañol
Module 2Hidden WHY and HOW Prompt CluesEnglishEspañol
Module 3Magnifying WHY Reasons into Topic SentencesEnglishEspañol
Module 4Proving Reasons with Evidence and ExplanationEnglishEspañol
Cluster 44 family packets
Module 1Building the Argumentative Foundation with Claim, Reasons, and EvidenceEnglishEspañol
Module 2Turning Parts into a Coherent Line of Argument with ThinkingEnglishEspañol
Module 3Understanding Others and Building an Evidence-Based RebuttalEnglishEspañol
Module 4Completing the Argument with Ending, Significance, and the Full CREATURES ResponseEnglishEspañol
Cluster 54 family packets
Module 1Balanced Evidence Across Paired PassagesEnglishEspañol
Module 2HOW Responses - Similarities, Differences, and RelationshipsEnglishEspañol
Module 3Building a Conclusion That Finishes the ThinkingEnglishEspañol
Module 4Color Coding the Exemplar and Controlling the Whole PaperEnglishEspañol
Cluster 64 family packets
Module 1Decision Prompts, Claim, Reasons, and Evidence - C - R - EEnglishEspañol
Module 2Coherent Argument and Thinking - A TEnglishEspañol
Module 3Understanding, Rebuttal, Ending, and Significance - U - R - E - SEnglishEspañol
Module 4Full CREATURES in Argumentative Correspondence for a Real AudienceEnglishEspañol
Cluster 74 family packets
Module 1NOTICE, QUESTION, SPEAKEnglishEspañol
Module 2Voices and ResponsesEnglishEspañol
Module 3Evidence Can Change the StoryEnglishEspañol
Module 4Informed Voices Create Responsible ChangeEnglishEspañol
Cluster 84 family packets
Module 1Challenge and QuestionEnglishEspañol
Module 2Evidence and ChoiceEnglishEspañol
Module 3Action, Consequence, and RevisionEnglishEspañol
Module 4Synthesis and PublicationEnglishEspañol