5th Grade Reading Standards

Quarter 1 Reading Standards (in calendar order):

1. 5.R.RL.03: The Highly Proficient student can analyze the similarities and differences of two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on implicitly stated details in the text. - 5 days

2. 5.R.RL.05: The Highly Proficient student can analyze and explain how different plot elements work together to build a story, drama, or poem. - 10 days

3. 5.R.RL.02: The Highly Proficient student can determine implicitly stated themes and summarize a story, drama, or poem using evidence from the text. - 10 days

4. 5.R.RL.06: The Highly Proficient student can analyze how a narrator’s point of view influences how complex events are developed. (NOT ASSESSED ON BENCHMARK) - 5 days

5. 5.R.RL.01: The Highly Proficient student can accurately quote strong textual evidence from the text to support and explicitly explain an inference. - 5 days

Quarter 3 Reading Standards (in calendar order):

1. 5.R.RI.01: The Highly Proficient student can accurately quote strong textual evidence when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing complex inferences from the text. - 5 days

2. 5.R.RI.06: The Highly Proficient student can analyze multiple sources of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent, and evaluate the effectiveness of the accounts. - 10 days

3. 5.R.RI.08: The Highly Proficient student can evaluate the strengths of an author’s reasoning and explain how the reasons and evidence support their points. - 10 days

4. 5.R.RI.03: The Highly Proficient student can analyze complex cause and effect relationships and interactions between individuals, events, or ideas, providing evidence based on specific information in the text. - 10 days

Yearly Reading Standards:

1. 5.R.RI.04: The Highly Proficient student can determine and analyze the meaning and effect of advanced grade level vocabulary words and phrases in a text. (NOT ASSESSED ON BENCHMARK)

2. 5.R.RI.09: The Highly Proficient student can integrate complex or inferred information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the topic using evidence from the text. (NOT ASSESSED ON BENCHMARK)

Additional Reading Standards:

1. 5.R.RI.10: By the end of the year, proficiently and independently read and comprehend informational text, including history/social studies, science and technological texts, in a text complexity range determined by qualitative and quantitative measures appropriate to grade 5. (All Months)

2. 5.R.RL.10: By the end of the year, proficiently and independently read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in a text complexity range determined by qualitative and quantitative measures appropriate to grade 5. (All Months)

3. 5.R.RF.03: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding multisyllabic words in context and out of context. a. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences to accurately read unfamiliar multisyllabic words. b. Apply knowledge of the six syllable patterns to read grade level words accurately. c. Use combined knowledge of morphology to read grade level words accurately. d. Know and apply common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots to accurately read unfamiliar words. (Month 9)

4. 5.R.RL.07: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the purpose, meaning, or tone of the text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, and poem). (Month 11)

5. 5.R.RF.04: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. a. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. b. Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. (Month 11)