What we're up to in 5th grade...

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ELAGSE5RL10:  By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grade's text complexity band independently and proficiently.

ELAGSE5RI10:  By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grade's text complexity band independently and proficiently.

ELAGSE5SL1:  Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, in teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

ELAGSE5W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

1. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.  

2. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. 

3. Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.   

4. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.  

5. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.

ELAGSE5W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 

ELAGSE5W5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language Standards up to and including grade 5.

ELAGSE5W7: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. 

ELAGSE5W8: Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources. 

ELAGSE5W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. 

Apply grade 5 Reading Standards to literature (e.g., Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or a drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., how characters interact].

ELAGSE5W10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

ELAGSE5RL1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 

ELAGSE5RL1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 

ELAGSE5RL2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. 

ELAGSE5RL3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

ELAGSE5RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. 

ELAGSE5RL5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. 

ELAGSE5RL6: Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.

ELAGSE5RI6: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.

ELAGSE5RL10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

ELAGSE5RF4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. 

Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. 

Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. 

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

ELAGSE5SL1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others'ideas and expressing their own clearly. 

Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion. 

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

Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others. 

Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.

ELAGSE5SL2: Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally

ELAGSE5SL4: Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

ELAGSE5SL6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation. (See grade 5 Language Standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.)

ELAGGSE5L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. 

Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.

Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb aspects.

Use verb tense and aspect to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.  

Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense and aspect.  

Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor).

ELAGSE5L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Use punctuation to separate items in a series.

Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence. 

Use a comma to set off the words yes and no (e.g., Yes, thank you), to set off a tag question from the rest of the sentence (e.g., It's true, isn't it?), and to indicate direct address (e.g., Is that you, Steve?). 

Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works.

Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.

ELAGSE5L3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. 

Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.

Compare and contrast the varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, or poems.

ELAGSE5L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.