• Fifth-Grade Learning Objectives

    Reading

    Reading Process (Comprehension, Vocabulary, Connections, & Independent Reading)

    • Draw conclusions and infer by referencing textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
    • Draw conclusions by providing textual evidence of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
    • Monitor comprehension and making corrections and adjustments when understanding breaks down
    • Determine the meaning of academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic root words and their prefixes and suffixes through context
    • Use context to determine meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words
    • Construct analogies
    • Explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, similes, metaphors, hyperboles,and other sayings in text
    • Identify and use words and phrases that signal contrast, addition, and relationships
    • Use a dictionary, a glossary, or a thesaurus (printed or electronic) to determine pronunciations, parts of speech, meanings, and alternate word choices
    • Use conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases
    • Connect text to text (ideas and information in various fiction and nonfiction works, using compare and contrast)
    • Connect text to world (text ideas regarding experiences in the world by demonstrating an awareness that literature reflects a cultural and historical time frame)
    • Read text that is developmentally appropriate
    • Produce evidence of reading

    Comprehend, Analyze, and Evaluate Fiction, Poetry, & Drama

    • Compare and contrast the roles and functions of characters in various plots, their relationships, and their conflicts
    • Explain the theme or moral lesson, conflict, and resolution in a story or novel
    • Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences events
    • Recognize foreshadowing
    • Explain the effect of a historical event or movement in literature
    • Introduce origin myths and culturally significant characters/events in mythology
    • Introduce different forms of third-person points of view in stories
    • Explain how poets use sound and visual elements in poetry
    • Identify forms of poems
    • Analyze the similarities between an original text and its dramatic adaptation
    • Identify structural elements of dramatic literature
    • Evaluate the critical impact of sensory details, imagery, and figurative language

    Comprehend, Analyze, and Evaluate Nonfiction

    • Use multiple text features and graphics to locate information and gain an overview of the contents of text information
    • Interpret details from procedural text to complete a task, solve a problem, or perform an action
    • Interpret factual or quantitative information
    • Evaluate if the author’s purpose was achieved, identify reasons for the decision, and provide evidence to support the claim
    • Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent
    • Verify facts through established methods
    • Identify the author’s viewpoint or position, supporting premises and evidence, and conclusion of a persuasive argument
    • Recognize exaggerated, contradictory, or misleading statements
    • Explain the type of evidence used to support a claim in a persuasive text
    • Use reasoning to determine the logic of an author’s conclusion and provide evidence to support reasoning
    • Identify devices used in biographies and autobiographies, including how an author presents major events in a person’s life
    • Explain the difference between a stated and implied purpose for an expository text
    • Analyze how the pattern of organization of a text influences the relationships
    • Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting similarities and differences in the point of view
    • Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject  knowledgeably

    Media Literacy

    • Explain how messages conveyed in various forms of media are presented differently
    • Compare and contrast the difference in techniques used in media
    • Identify the point of view of media presentations
    • Analyze various digital media venues for levels of formality and informality
    • Explain textual and graphics features of a web page and how they help readers to comprehend text

     

    Reading Foundations

    Phonics

    • Decode words using knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read unfamiliar multi-syllabic words in context
    • Read root words, prefixes, suffixes, and important words from all specific content curricula
    • K-5 Phonics Scope and Sequence 

    Fluency

    • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary

     

    Writing

    Writing Process

    • Select a genre appropriate for conveying the purpose to an intended audience
    • Formulate questions related to the topic
    • Access prior knowledge or building background knowledge related to the topic
    • Use a prewriting strategy
    • Choose an appropriate organizational structure and building on onemain idea to create a multiple-paragraph text appropriate to the genre
    • Establish and support a main idea with an overall topic sentence at, or near, the beginning of the first paragraph
    • Categorize, organize, and sequence facts, details, and/or events (from sources when appropriate) into clear introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs applicable to the organizational structure
    • Restate the overall main idea in the concluding statement
    • Address an appropriate audience, organization, and purpose
    • Develop and strengthen writing by revising: main idea, sequence (ideas), focus, organizational structure, details/facts (from multiple sources, when appropriate), word choice (related to the topic), sentence structure, transitions, audience and purpose, voice
    • Edit for language conventions
    • Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing
    • Demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages, ideally in a single sitting

    Write Opinion Texts

    • Introduce a topic or text being studied, using an introductory paragraph that clearly supports the writer’s purpose
    • State an opinion or establish a position and provide relevant reasons for the opinion supported by multiple facts and details
    • Use specific and accurate words that are related to the topic, audience, and purpose
    • Contain information using student’s original language except when using direct quotation from a source
    • Reference the name of the author(s) or name of the source used for details or facts included in the text
    • Use transitions to connect opinion and reason
    • Organize the supporting details/reasons into  introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs

    Write Informative/Explanatory Texts

    • Introduce a topic using a topic sentence in an introductory paragraph
    • Develop the topic into supporting paragraphs from sources, using topic sentences with facts, details, examples, and quotations
    • Use an organizational format that suits the topic
    • Use specific, relevant, and accurate words that are suited to the topic, audience, and purpose
    • Contain information using student’s original language except when using direct quotations from a source
    • Use transition words to connect ideas within and across categories of information
    • Use text structures when useful
    • Create a concluding paragraph related to the information

    Write Fiction or Nonfiction Narratives and Poems

    • Establish a setting and situation/topic and introduce a narrator and/or characters
    • Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, motivation, and descriptions
    • Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to establish a beginning/middle/end
    • Use a variety of transitions to manage the sequence of events
    • Use specific, relevant, and accurate words that are suited to the topic, audience, and purpose

    Research Process

    • Generate a list of subject-appropriate topics
    • Formulate and refine an open-ended research question
    • Follow guidelines for collecting and recording information
    • Select relevant resources, literary and informational
    • Assess relevance, accuracy, and reliability of information in print and digital sources
    • Convert graphic/visual data into written notes
    • Differentiate between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using ideas of others
    • Present and evaluate how completely, accurately, and efficiently the research question was explored or answered using established teacher/student criteria
    • Record bibliographic information from sources according to a standard format

     

    Language

    Grammar

    • Explain and use the eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection
    • Use relative pronouns and relative adverbs
    • Use pronouns consistently across a text
    • Use and correct verb tenses
    • Produce a variety of complex sentences in writing

    Conventions

    • Write legibly
    • Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction when writing compound sentences
    • Use a comma to separate an introductory clause in a complex sentence
    • Use a comma to set off the words yes and no
    • Use italics when keyboarding titles of books, magazines, and newspapers
    • Use underlining when writing titles of books, magazines, and newspapers
    • Use quotation marks when writing titles of stories, songs, poems, articles
    • Use apostrophes in singular nouns to show possession
    • Write apostrophes in regular plural nouns to show possession
    • Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (roots, affixes) to read and spell unfamiliar multi-syllabic words in context

     

    Speaking & Listening

    Listening

    • Follow agreed upon rules for listening and fulfilling discussion rules independently
    • Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information and make comments that contribute to the discussion to link to the remarks of others
    • Follow, restate, and give multi-step instructions from or to others in collaborative groups, according to classroom expectations
    • Listen for speaker’s message and summarize main points based on evidence
    • Evaluating  and modify own active listening skills

    Speaking

    • Summarize points made by others before presenting own ideas, according to classroom expectations
    • Provide and evaluate evidence to support opinion

    Presenting

    • Use efficient presentation skills with available resources using a variety of media
    • Plan an appropriate presentation based on audience
    • Employ appropriate pacing, vocabulary, and gestures to communicate a clear viewpoint