Operations and Algebraic Thinking 

• Write and interpret numerical expressions. 

• Analyze patterns and relationships.

RL.5.9. Compare, contrast and reflect on the treatment of similar themes and topics and patterns of events in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.  

Focus: Provide a comparison and contrast of stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Number and Operations in Base Ten 

• Understand the place value system. 

• Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.

RI.5.9 Integrate and reflect on information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. 

Focus: Provide a statement that integrates information from several nonfiction texts on the same topic. 

Number and Operations—Fractions 

• Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions. 

• Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.

RI.5.3. Explain 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. 

Focus: Provide an explanation of the relationships or interactions between two or more ideas or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text.

Measurement and Data 

• Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system. 

• Represent and interpret data. 

• Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.

RL.5.6. Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described. 

Focus: Provide a description of how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.

Geometry 

• Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems. 

• Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.

W.5.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Focus: Address the writing prompt and provide effective and thorough development of the topic and/or narrative elements by using clear reasoning, details, and/or description.