5th Grade Standards

Grade Level Standards

For LdF Fifth Grade

Literacy

Students will know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Students will read grade level text with fluency and accuracy to support comprehension.
Students will read independently with adequate stamina.
Students will ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Students will draw accurate inferences from the text.
Students will summarize two or more main ideas of a text and support with details.
Students will use multiple strategies to determine the meaning of unknown words.
Students will demonstrate understanding of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Students will write independently with adequate stamina.
Students will write for the appropriate audience.

Mathematics

Students will use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.
Students will recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to the right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
Students will read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths.
Students will add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators.
Students will solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers.
Students will classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on properties.
Students will recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement.
Students will measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, and improvised units.
Students will understand the place value system in relation to number value.
Students will perform the four operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
Students will use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.

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