English Language Arts

In 5th Grade ELA, we are covering:

• Inferencing: Quoting accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

• Theme and Summary: determining 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; summarizing the text.

• Compare and Contrast: comparing and contrasting the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

•  Context Clues: determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, recognizing specific word choices that contribute to meaning and tone.

• Text Structure: explaining how chapters, scenes, or stanzas provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

•  Point of View: describing how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.

• Main Ideas and Supporting Details: determining two or more main ideas of a text and explaining how key details support them; summarizing the text.

• Text Connections: explaining 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.

• Author’s Purpose- explaining how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).

• Multimedia Analysis: analyzing how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or aesthetics of a text.