Fifth Grade Curriculum at a Glance
Reading Fiction and Nonfiction
- Makes inferences using text evidence
- Summarizes text
- Identifies the main idea and supporting details of a text
- Identifies and describes textual evidence of key literary elements (setting, plot, characters, theme, etc.)
- Identifies, explains, and contrasts the organizational features and structure of texts
- Compares and contrasts two or more components of multiple texts (point of view, theme, etc.)
- Makes generalizations with information gathered from text(s)
- Identifies and understands various types of literary devices
- Uses comprehension strategies to understand fiction and nonfiction text
Foundations of Reading
- Applies word analysis skills (affixes, synonyms, etc.)
- Reads with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
- Uses vocabulary strategies including context clues to determine the meaning of new words
Writing
- Writes for different purposes: Narrative, informative, opinion
- Applies components to create a focused and organized piece of writing (introduction, conclusion, supporting details)
- Strengthens writing by planning, revising, editing, and publishing
- Uses research to build and present knowledge
Language
- Writes complete, simple, and compound sentences
- Capitalizes words as needed
- Uses punctuation correctly (including commas and quotation marks)
- Applies knowledge of grammar to reading and writing subjects (subject/verb agreement, verb tense, etc.)
Speaking and Listening
- Effectively engages in discussions within a group
Handwriting
- Writes clearly and legibly
Word Study (Spelling)
- Applies word study skills in daily writing
- Spells words in isolation (differentiated BEAR assessments)
Math
- Solves multi-step real-world mathematical problems
- Multiplies and divides multi-digit numbers
- Reads, writes, and represents whole numbers and decimals using place value concepts
- Recognizes and generates equivalent fractions less than and greater than one
- Understands the relationship between fractions and decimals
- Estimates, adds, and subtracts fractions with like and unlike denominators
- Compares and orders fractions and decimals less than and greater than one
- Describes and graphs patterns of change created through numerical patterns
- Interprets and solves expressions and equations using properties and order of operations
- Describes two- and three- dimensional figures
- Understands how volume is determined
- Understands how surface area is determined
- Determines the perimeter of a polygon
- Measures length to the nearest 1/16 inch or cn.
- Converts like units of length in customary and metric
- Analyzes data to find mean, median, mode, and range
Social Studies
- Examines Jamestown Settlement and Plymouth Plantation as the foundations of American culture and society
- Compares and contrasts the developments of the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies
- Examines the foundations of the American nation laid during the Revolutionary Era
- Examines the formation of the American system of government following the American Revolution
- Compares and contrasts the continued formation of the new nation under the leadership of Presidents Washington, Adams, and Jefferson
Science
- Uses models to explain factors that upset stability of local ecosystems (i.e., food web, predator/prey relationships)
- Conducts investigations to discover properties of matter and energy
- Analyzes data to understand the patterns of the sun, planets, moon, and stars (including investigating the force of gravity)
- Understands interactions between air, water, rock/soil, and all living things