Grade 5

Reading Literature and Informational Text (range of reading and text complexity)  

Writing (range of writing)  

Speaking and Listening  

Language  

Foundational Skills  

Students inquire about and comprehend key ideas and details in a variety of texts.

Students investigate the craft and structure of a variety of texts.

Students integrate knowledge to make meaningful connections between ideas in diverse texts.

Students apply their knowledge of text types and purposes.

Students use various processes to produce and distribute a wide range of their writing.

Students research to build and present knowledge in writing.

Students present their knowledge and ideas orally and comprehensibly

Students apply strategies for listening and collaborate with others to comprehend what is heard and spoken.

Students apply strategies to comprehend and utilize vocabulary appropriately in a variety of contexts: social, instructional, and academic.

Students recognize and apply conventions of English in order to produce oral and written texts.

Students apply print concepts when they read.

Students apply phonics and word recognition skills when they read.

Students read a range of texts with fluency.

Use questions to access info rmation stated explicitly and to draw inferences from the text

Identify the differences between facts, supported inferences, and opinions in a text

Understand a key person in an expository text, and re cognize his or her relationship to the information of the text

Examine the main ideas and supporting details of a text to determine relevance and importance

Examine how evidence is used to support particular points in a text

Use word parts to dec ode unfamiliar words, and recognize families of words

Analyze narrative and exposito ry texts, and determine how text structure and features improve comprehension

Distinguish a reader’s point of view from that of the author, narrator, or characters/people in the text

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings

Explore major differences between poetry, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems and dramas when writing or speaking about a text

Explore themes, settings, and plots of diverse cult ural stories, and make connections with information in expository texts

Distinguish between information derived from experiences, and information derived from print and digital sources, and recognize t he importance of citing sources

Rewrite a well-known story, giving it a pres ent-day and local context, and develop an argument for choices in changing the original

Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts from a historical, sci entific, or technical text, and write about the information based on the text and other research

Use a well-known cultural st ory, or an informational text, as a basis for creating a poem, and write a critique of the finished poem

Demonstrate and produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to a task and purpose (e.g., writing for formal situations)

With guidance and support from adults and peers , focus on a topic, and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing

Use technology, with guidance and support, to produce and publish writing and to collaborate and interact with others

Draw evidence from literary or informational text s to support interpretation, inference, reflection, and research in shared research and writing projects ; write informative/explanatory texts that convey relationships between ideas and information clearly; and use word processing with basic formatting

Conduct short research projects that build know ledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic, and explore “What if” questions

Plan and develop informational presentations, and cite resources

Relate differences in messages and stories in visual media and in print

Listen to a documentary presentation, and ta ke basic notes, with scaffolding as necessary

Show basic understanding of a speaker’s argument, clarify any confusion, and create a critical (thoughtful) response

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners—one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led—on grade 5 topics and te xts, building on others’ ideas and expressing own ideas clearly

Show relationships between word parts and s entence structure, and label parts of speech

Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings

Apply word knowledge when producing oral and written texts

Demonstrate, with support, a developing, grade -level appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking

Demonstrate a developing grade-level appropriat e command of the conventions of standard English when writing, and use context-appropriate discourse when speaking or writing

Demonstrate understanding of the or ganization and basic features of print

Construct and analyze grade-level phonics and word skills in decoding words

Read grade appropriate narrative and expositor y text aloud accurately and with appropriate tone, expression, and fluency