5th Grade

Reading: Literature

• 5.RL.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• 5.RL.2 Determine 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; summarize the text.
• 5.RL.3 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).
• 5.RL.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
• 5.RL.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
• 5.RL.6 Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
• 5.RL.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
• 5.RL.8 (Not applicable to literature)
• 5.RL.9 Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
• 5.RL.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Reading: Informational Text

• 5.RI.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• 5.RI.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
• 5.RI.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.
• 5.RI.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
• 5.RI.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
• 5.RI.6 Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
• 5.RI.7 Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
• 5.RI.8 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
• 5.RI.9 Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
• 5.RI.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Reading: Foundational Skills

• 5.RF.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• 5.RF.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Writing

• 5.W.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
• 5.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
• 5.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
• 5.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• 5.W.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
• 5.W.6 With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.
• 5.W.7 Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
• 5.W.8 Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
• 5.W.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
• 5.W.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Speaking and Listening

• 5.SL.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• 5.SL.2 Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
• 5.SL.3 Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence.
• 5.SL.4 Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
• 5.SL.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
• 5.SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation.

Language

• 5.L.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• 5.L.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• 5.L.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
• 5.L.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
• 5.L.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
• 5.L.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

1. Write and interpret numerical expressions.
2. Analyze patterns and relationships.

Full Standards

Number and Operations in Base Ten

1. Understand the place value system.
2. Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.

Full Standards

Measurement and Data

1. Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
2. Represent and interpret data.
3. Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.

Full Standards

Geometry

1. Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
2. Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.

Full Standards

Mathematical Practices

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Number and Operations—Fractions

1. Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
2. Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.

Full Standards