Elementary School - Grade 5

Literacy

Reading:

  • Identify setting, plot character, problem, main event and resolution
  • Use the following comprehension strategies:
    • previewing text
    • making predictions and checking them
    • re-reading difficult passages
    • generating questions
    • summarizing
    • identifying cause and effect; fact and opinion; author's purpose; point of view; mood
  • Identify main idea of a selection and provide examples of implied or directly stated evidence
  • Identify theme and topic of a selection
  • Identify significant traits of major characters from reading and cite examples from text to support
  • Identify major conflict in a story and discuss the resolution
  • Analyze and respond to poems
  • Identify a stanza in poetry
  • Identify a theme in a poem and provide evidence form the text
  • Identify examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance and consonance in a selection

Writing:

  • Demonstrate use of dictionaries, thesauri and other reference aids
  • Use correct spelling of standard English
  • Use graphic organizers to organize information
  • Write in first and third person
  • Write stories with a beginning, middle and end
  • Use transitional words or phrases
  • Proofread and edit for spelling, mechanics, word usage and sentence structure
  • Edit to add detail to writing
  • Identify and use simile, metaphor and personification in writing
  • Write an informational report using topic sentences, supporting facts, introduction and conclusions
  • Demonstrate competency in note-taking, summarizing, outlining
  • Write research paper
  • Write and use bibliographies
  • Write a biography

Grammar

  • Demonstrate understanding of synonyms, antonyms and homonyms in reading and writing
  • Demonstrate understanding of and identify nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverb, prepositions, conjunctions action verbs, linking verbs and articles
  • Use and identify declarative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative sentences
  • Identify subject and predicate
  • Develop working knowledge of most common Greek and Latin roots/affixes
  • Identify and use appropriately past, present and future and perfect tense

Communication:

  • Participate in self-run small group or whole class discussion
  • Demonstrate effective active listening
  • Listen to the opinions of others from a range of perspectives in a non-judgment way
  • Demonstrate good questioning techniques and good answering proficiency in discussion
  • Contribute actively to group discussions
  • Conduct interviews using appropriate questions and technique
  • Orally report to class