5th Grade Historical Literacy Curriculum outlines the content of social-studies integrated units taught within the readers' and writers' workshop framework and taught daily for 90 minutes. Each six week unit contains standards, teaching points, vocabulary, and assessments. Readers' and writers' workshop naturally differentiates for all learners. By June of 2020, each unit will have a slide deck associated with it that contains the teaching points, integrated grammar work, vocabulary, and strategies for partner practice. Our district places careful emphasis on vocabulary, as we have a high percentage of English Language Learners.

This sequence of process-based writing lessons leans heavily on insights from a close reading of the Washington Post for Kids' article, "Girl Power." Across these lessons, students plan, draft, revise, and edit an explanatory essay in which they explain how the author of the article uses relationships to develop the text's central idea.