ELA 5th Grade Informational Text

Description

• Explain the relationships or interactions between steps in a process described in informational or functional texts (e.g., science experiment; description of the steps in the water cycle)

• Cite accurate textual evidence when explaining what an informational text says explicitly and when making inferences

• Summarize an informational text including main ideas and key details and excluding unnecessary details

• Compare and contrast the organizational structures of two or more informational texts

• Compare and contrast authors' perspectives in multiple accounts of the same event or topic in informational texts

• Integrate information on a topic from several nonfiction texts to develop a base of knowledge on a subject (e.g., categorize/organize information, compare information, summarize from multiple texts)

• Explain how an author supports an argument, identifying reasons and evidence given to support particular points and the main claim

• Read regularly and independently in fifth-grade-appropriate texts for sustained periods of time, increasing speed, stamina, and comprehension

• Explain the characteristics and structural elements of different genres of informational text (e.g., argument, exposition, functional texts)