5th Grade AGP ELA

This course is designed to develop skills of critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making at a level of complexity, abstractness, and depth appropriate for gifted learners, as well as to develop proficiency in communicating abstract and complex ideas, relationships and issues. This course is planned to support mastery of core areas of learning in terms of pace, depth, and complexity. Students will apply skills they learned in earlier grades to make sense of longer, more challenging texts. They will focus on how authors make their points and support their arguments with evidence and reasoning to help sharpen their ability to write and speak with more clarity and coherence. Students will engage in the writing process to write a variety of products for different audiences and purposes. Language instruction will focus on the correct use of Standard American English including a study of conventions of grammar and usage in writing. Students will apply vocabulary skills to include word analysis such as words in context and Greek and Latin stems. Students will be expected to reinforce and enrich classroom instruction

with homework to extend the learning.