FIFTH GRADE UNIT 2

Language Arts Standards

Standard: Reading Literature

• RL.5.2: 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.
• RL.5.3: 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).
• RL.5.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
• RL.5.5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
• RL.5.6: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
• RL.5.9: Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Standard: Reading Informational Text

• RI.5.2: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
• RI.5.3: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
• RI.5.9: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Standard: Reading Foundational Skills

• RF.5.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• RF.5.3a: Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., base/root words and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

Standard: Writing

• W.5.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
• W5.1a: Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
• W.5.1b: Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
• W.5.1d: Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
• W.5.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
• W5.2a: Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
• W.5.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
• W.5.2c: Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).
• W.5.2e: Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.
• W.5.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
• W.5.3a: Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
• W.5.3b: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
• W.5.6: With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.
• W.5.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
• W.5.9a: Apply grade 5 Reading Standards to informational texts (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, like how characters react).
• W.5.9b: Apply grade 5 Reading standards to informational texts (e.g., “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point[s]”).

Standard: Speaking and Listening

• SL.5.1: 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 other’s ideas and expressing their own ideas clearly:
• SL.5.1 a: 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.
• SL.5.1 b: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussion and carry out assigned roles.
• SL.5.2: Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

Standard: Reading Foundational Skills

Standard: Language

• L.5.1a: Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.
• L.5.1b: Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb tenses.
• L.5.1c: Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.
• L.5.2b: Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence.
• L.5.2e: Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.
• L.5.3a: Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
• L.5.4a: Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
• L.5.4b: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
• L.5.5a: Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
• L.5.5c: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.

List of Focus Standards that will be used throughout the Units