Fifth Grade	Reading Course Map
August	Context Clues; Making Predictions
September	Introduce Poetry; Figurative Language; Genres
October	Main Idea/ Inference; Organizational Structure
November	Compare/Contrast; Author's Intent
December	Cause/Effect; Drawing Conclusions
January	Making Judgments
February	Media Literacy; Poetry
March	Review
April	Acceleration
May	Acceleration
All Year	Genre: Teach skills using different genres