MAJOR CONCEPTS YOUR CHILD WILL BE WORKING ON THIS YEAR

Reading:

  • Determine theme of a story, drama or poem

  • Use word analysis skills to read unfamiliar multi-syllabic words (e.g., attention, information, concentration)

  • Determine main idea; summarize the text

  • Compare and contrast similar themes, topics, and events

  • Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts (what happened and why) in historical, scientific, and technical texts

  • Use context (details or words in a sentence) to confirm or self-correct unknown words

  • Integrate information from two texts on the same topic

  • Compare and contrast point of view; understand difference between 1st and 3rd person

  • Read and comprehend grade level literature, informational texts, poetry, and drama

LANGUAGE ARTS

  • Use commas and quotation marks for direct speech

  • Use context as a clue to word meaning (e.g., use details and words in the sentence to determine the meaning of an unknown word)

  • Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their)

  • Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g., Isabel is pretty as a picture, We had a ball at the party)

  • Spell grade appropriate words correctly

  • Acquire and use grade appropriate general, academic and domain specific vocabulary (e.g., community, population, census)

  • Writing in cursive handwriting

5RL1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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  • RL1 Example Reading Passage

  • RL1 Example question

5RL2: Determine the 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.

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RL 2 example of question and answer

5RL3:Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).


Anchor Chart from our classroom


RL3 Example

5RI1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

RI5.1 Sample question