Instructional Focus Lesson Plan for

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Digital English

• Instructional Focus Lesson Plan for
• Describing Setting
• Grade 5

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Organization and Focus Students create
multiple-paragraph narrative composition that
describes the setting.
Fifth Grade
Writing Standard 1.1b
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Fifth Grade
Every story must have a setting. The setting
consists of the place and time in which the
events take place.
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Fifth Grade
Matt stood at the edge of the clearing for some
time after his father had gone out of sight among
the trees. There was just a chance that his
father might turn back, that perhaps he had
forgotten something or had some last word of
advice. This was one time Matt reckoned he
wouldnt mind the advice, no matter how many
times he had heard it before. But finally he had
to admit that this was not going to happen. His
father had really gone. He was alone, with miles
of wilderness stretching on every side.
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Fifth Grade
Matt stood at the edge of the clearing for some
time after his father had gone out of sight among
the trees. There was just a chance that his
father might turn back, that perhaps he had
forgotten something or had some last word of
advice. This was one time Matt reckoned he
wouldnt mind the advice, no matter how many
times he had heard it before. But finally he had
to admit that this was not going to happen. His
father had really gone. He was alone, with miles
of wilderness stretching on every side.
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Fifth Grade
Everything was green, it went into him. The
forest was largely made of pines and spruce, with
some stands of some low brush smeared here and
there and thick grass and some other kind of very
small brush all over. He couldnt identify most
of it-except the evergreens-and some leafy trees
he thought might be aspen. Hed seen pictures of
aspens on television. The country around the lake
was moderately hilly, but the hills were
small-almost hummocks-and there were very few
rocks except to his left. There lay a rocky ridge
that stuck out over the lake, about twenty feet
high.
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Fifth Grade
Everything was green, it went into him. The
forest was largely made of pines and spruce, with
some stands of some low brush smeared here and
there and thick grass and some other kind of very
small brush all over. He couldnt identify most
of it-except the evergreens-and some leafy trees
he thought might be aspen. Hed seen pictures of
aspens on television. The country around the lake
was moderately hilly, but the hills were
small-almost hummocks-and there were very few
rocks except to his left. There lay a rocky ridge
that stuck out over the lake, about twenty feet
high.
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With your class, a partner, or on your own, write
a description of this setting and underline the
words that describe it.