Fifth Grade Language Arts Curriculum at a Glance Reading
Writing
Speaking & Listening
Students at this level use general skills and strategies of the reading process to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts
Students at this level use the skills and strategies of Students at this level use listening and speaking the writing process while incorporating aspects and strategies for different purposes. conventions of writing.
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
• Use prewriting strategies to plan written work, including graphic organizers and webs • Organize information according to the purpose of the writing • Research and takes notes on a given topic • Use strategies to draft and revise written work • Adjust focus of writing for different audiences • Use strategies to edit and publish written work • Edit written work for grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and developmentally appropriate spelling • Incorporate illustrations where relevant. • Use technology to compose and publish work • Evaluate own writing • Describe the best features of a piece of writing • Ask for feedback • Orally respond to classmates’ writing • Use descriptive language that clarifies and enhances ideas, including adjectives, adverbs, sensory words • Uses a variety of sentence structures in writing • Identify declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentence structures • Use paragraph form in writing • Use techniques to convey a personal style and voice • Use first person point of view • Use grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions
• Play a variety of roles in group discussions • Lead a conversation in literature circles • Use a form to carry out a role in discussions • Follow agreed upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles • Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied the material • Ask questions to seek elaboration and clarification of ideas • Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others • Debate different sides of a topic • Use strategies to enhance listening comprehension • Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification • Use grammatically correct language for the audience and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas and supporting details • Model a variety of active listening strategies (eye contact, note taking, questioning, and formulating clarifying questions) • Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions • Listen in order to understand topic and purpose in spoken texts • Respond to comprehension questions explaining the topic and
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Use textual clues, text format to preview text Skim material for main idea Reads to understand a specific viewpoint Use foreshadowing clues to make predictions Use complex word families, prefixes and suffixes to decode unknown words Use a variety of strategies to extend reading vocabulary, including word reference materials (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus) to determine the meaning, pronunciation, and derivations of unknown words Demonstrate comprehension through a variety of strategies, including comparisons, identifying similarities and differences between characters in a novel and texts. Read and Understand a variety of literary passages and texts, including myths, historical fiction, biographies, and autobiographies Know the defining characteristics of historical fiction, biographies, and autobiographies Understand the basic concept of plot and climax Understand the concept of climax Understand similarities and differences within one or more works of literature Understand similarities and differences in terms of character types Understand similarities and differences within literary