Grade 5

Word Relationship Meaning

Craft and Structure

Key Ideas and Evidence

Communication and Collaboration

Compose and Publish

Grammar and Usage

Identify a known root as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (addition, additional). 

Determine the meaning of a word when an affix is added to the root of a word. 

Identify and explain the elements of a story and how they interact to form plot structure. 

Describe the influence of an author’s point of view on the descriptions of events and characters in a text.

Compare and contrast story elements across texts. 

Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, and text features. 

Identify literary elements and explain their effect on the text.

Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose and perspective shapes content, meaning, and style. 

Compare and contrast how two authors present the same theme, topic or event. 

Compare and contrast themes, topics, and patterns of events.

Compare how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning and tone of an idea.

Compose text summaries using the main ideas of a text and supporting details. 

 Quote accurately from a text when explaining explicit and inferred information from the text. 

Synthesize information from multiple texts of the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. 

Identify and use evidence to support a teacher-provided thesis. 

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles.

Ask and respond to specific questions to clarify information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.

Collaborate effectively as group members while building on the ideas of others and clearly expressing one's own perspective. 

Maintain eye contact and use gestures, facial expressions and appropriate voice. 

Compose narratives using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Compose opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting point of view with reasons and information.

Compose informative texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly, including comparison/contrast writing, and persuasive writing. 

Support a teacher generated thesis statement.

Utilize digital tools to produce and publish writing in collaboration with peers. 

Distinguish between abstract/concrete, singular/plural, common/proper, and possessive nouns. 

Identify a complete verb phrase in a simple or compound sentence and use it in sentence patterns. 

Continue identification and use of main parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions). 

Demonstrate correct pronoun/antecedent agreement.

Accurately choose when to use an adjective or an adverb.

Compose simple and compound sentences to combine ideas. 

Demonstrate the use of commas correctly in a variety of sentence structures. 

Consistently use accurate capitalization of titles, proper nouns, proper adjectives, and the beginning of each sentence. 

Accurately use commas to punctuate lists, introductory words and phrases, and in dialogue.  

Appropriately punctuate quotations.