Grade 5 ELA Curricular Competencies:

• Demonstrate awareness of the oral tradition in First Peoples cultures and the purposes of First Peoples texts
• Identify how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to land
• Use oral storytelling processes
• Access information and ideas from a variety of sources and from prior knowledge to build understanding
• Use a variety of comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading, listening, or viewing to guide inquiry and deepen understanding of text
• Apply a variety of thinking skills to gain meaning from texts
• Explain the role of language in personal, social, and cultural identity
• Respond to text in personal and creative ways