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Grade 5 Language Arts Week 1 Lesson 1

This document contains a Grade 5 Language Arts worksheet from the Guyana Ministry of Education. It includes a reading passage about children starting school and learning subjects like Social Studies. It then provides instruction and practice on identifying simple sentences with one subject and one predicate. Students are asked to identify the subject and predicate in sample sentences. Vocabulary and practice with alphabetical order by the third letter is also included. Students are assigned homework to construct simple sentences using given sight words.

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Grade 5 Language Arts Week 1 Lesson 1

This document contains a Grade 5 Language Arts worksheet from the Guyana Ministry of Education. It includes a reading passage about children starting school and learning subjects like Social Studies. It then provides instruction and practice on identifying simple sentences with one subject and one predicate. Students are asked to identify the subject and predicate in sample sentences. Vocabulary and practice with alphabetical order by the third letter is also included. Students are assigned homework to construct simple sentences using given sight words.

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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

PRIMARY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME


GRADE FIVE WORKSHEET
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE ARTS

LESSON: 1 WEEK 1

Name: ________________________________ Date: _____________________

READING

Let us read these words together

1. family 2. children 3. first 4. school


5. early 6. favourite 7. where 8. together

Read the text below.

Children start school at a very early age. School is a place where


children learn many things. They learn about body systems and the
ethnic groups. Some children have favourite subjects. In Social
Studies, they learn about the Amerindians. The Amerindians were the
first group of people to come to Guyana. They came by walking. They
crossed the Bering Strait.

GRAMMAR
Sentences-Simple Sentence

FACT/TIP:
A sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought.
A simple sentence has one subject and one predicate.
Remember: The subject of the sentence is the telling part or the noun
part of the sentence. It also answers the questions who or what. The
predicate of the sentence is the doing part or the verb part of the
sentence.

PRACTICE EXAMPLES
1. They came by walking. (simple sentence)

One Subject One Predicate

They came by walking.

2. Some children have favourite subjects. (simple sentence)

One Subject One Predicate

Some children have favourite subjects.

ON YOUR OWN
Study the sentences below. Divide them into two parts using the
table.
1. Plantation North Brook was renamed Victoria.
2. The East Indians worked under the Indentureship system.
3. Newborn babies have the fastest heartbeat.
4. Blood is made up of a liquid called plasma.
5. Plasma is made up of mostly water.
Subject Predicate

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

VOCABULARY
Alphabetical Order 3rd Letter- Alphabetical order is also known as
ABC order. The word whose first letter appears in the alphabet
comes first in alphabetical order. If the first letters are the same, the
second letters are compared. This pattern continues if the third,
fourth or fifth letters are the same.

PRACTICE EXAMPLE
Arrange the words in each group in alphabetical order

Words Words arranged in Alphabetical


Order

clown ,club, clay, clever clay, clever, clown, club

drink, drug, drain, drown drain, drink, drown, drug

plot, plug, plate, please plate, please, plot, plug

Note: In the examples above the first 2 letters are the same so the
third letter was compared.
ON YOUR OWN
Study these words, then arrange them in alphabetical order.

1. bleed blaze blunt blood


________________________________________________________
2. moth month more moon
_________________________________________________________
3. treat track troop trip
________________________________________________________
4. glue gloss glam glide
________________________________________________________
5. string stop step start
________________________________________________________

HOMEWORK
Use the following sight words to construct five simple sentences. The
first one was done for you!
1. clown- The clown performed tricks.
2. teacher-___________________________________________________
3. school-______________________________________________________
4. family-______________________________________________________
5. children-_____________________________________________________

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