Reading
5th Grade Reading Essential Outcomes
By the end of 5th grade students will…
Compare - (How Things are the Same in Text)
Contrast - (How Things are Different in Text)
Identify the Main Idea using supporting details - (What’s the Big Idea?)
Locate Supporting Details in a text – (Evidence of Main Idea)
Determine the Cause – (Why Something Happened)
Determine the Effect – (Result of Something that Happened)
Discover the Author’s Purpose - (Reason the Author Wrote the Text)
PIEE
Persuade
Inform
Express Ideas
Entertain
Analyze the Sequence of a story – (Order of Events)
Identify 1st Person Point of View - ( I, my, we, us)
Identify 3rd Person Point of View - (he, she, they)
Analyze Characters in text - (Physical and Personal Traits)
Use facts from text and person experience to Draw Conclusions
(Make an Opinion about the Text)
Identify the Plot – (Overall Structure of a Story)
Exposition/Introduction
Rising Action
Climax/Turning Point
Falling Action
Resolution/Conclusion
Understand Figurative Language
Simile - (Comparing using “like” or “as”)
Metaphor - (comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common)