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FIFTH GRADE EXPECTATIONS


 

These are the expectations in the major subject areas for a student by the end of fifth grade. 

Reading--Writing--Mathematics--Social Studies--Science

READING

  • Read with fluency at the fifth grade level
    • Adjust reading rate to purpose
    • Decode unfamiliar words (prefixes, suffixes, root word, syllabication, context clues)
    • Expression
  • Use reading strategies to develop meaning and improve comprehension
    • Use text organization (glossary, headings, graphics)
    • Self-question during reading
    • Re-reading
    • Evaluate information
    • Vocabulary development
  • Use comprehension strategies to understand and expand upon text
    • Main idea and details
    • Fact and opinion
    • Predicting outcomes
    • Make supportable inferences and conclusions
    • Author's viewpoint
    • Summarizing and paraphrasing
    • Generalizations
    • Figurative language
  • Identify the elements of a story
    • Clues to story plot
    • Setting
    • Character development
    • Element of suspense
    • Point of view
  • Expand and enrich reading vocabulary (homophones, multiple meanings, synonyms, antonyms)
  • Select and read a variety books including fiction and non-fiction, for enjoyment and learning. For example:
    • Biography
    • Historical fiction
    • Mystery
    • Poetry
    • Newspaper and magazines
  • Use library independently for research
  • Read silently for a sustained period of time

WRITING

  • Engage in the basic process of writing to improve content, variety, and accuracy (pre-writing activities, draft, revise, edit, publish)
  • Work independently and cooperatively with peers (response groups, conferencing)
  • Use paragraph structure in writing
    • Main idea and supporting details
    • Introduction and conclusion
  • Write multi-paragraph pieces for different purposes
    • Narrative (story-fiction or non-fiction)
    • Descriptive
    • Persuasive
    • Functional (letter writing, note taking)
    • Research reports
    • Poetry
    • Content area writing assignments
  • Write with an awareness of mechanics, usage, and sentence completion
    • Use standard spelling for common words
    • Use spelling resources as an aid to correct spelling (dictionary, spellchecker, etc.)
    • Use correct punctuation (ending punctuation, commas, quotation marks, apostrophes)
    • Write with proper usage of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and conjunctions
    • Write complete sentences
  • Read and use cursive writing fluently and legibly
  • Use keyboarding skills

MATHEMATICS

  • Use estimation skills to round numbers
  • Estimate size and number of objects
  • Read and write numbers to the billions
  • Read and write decimals to the thousandths
  • Identify factors, greatest common factor, multiples, least common multiple
  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, decimals, and fractions
  • Know basic number facts (+,-,x,÷)
  • Use standard measurements
  • Calculate perimeter, area, volume, and circumference
  • Recognize and analyze properties and relationships among geometric forms, lines, angles, and simple transformations
  • Read, interpret, and construct graphs
  • Compare and calculate probability
  • Calculate ratio and percents
  • Use problem solving strategies including analysis, estimation, planning, checking, and graphing
  • Use estimation to check reasonableness of answers
  • Use calculator
  • Write and verbalize explanations of math problems using appropriate vocabulary
  • Communicate patterns, sequences, and relationships verbally, numerically, symbolically, and graphically

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Explore history of United States
    • Migration from Asia
    • Native American
    • European explorers in the New World
    • European settlements in North America
    • American colonization
    • Westward expansion
    • Industrial Revolution
    • Immigration of 1880's
    • Slavery
    • Structures of government
    • Historical conflicts (American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War)
  • Understand geographical influences
    • Major physical regions
    • Industrial influence
  • Use map skills
    • Latitude and longitude
    • Map keys
    • Types of maps

SCIENCE

  • Use sound scientific methods
  • Formulate hypothesis
  • Conduct "scientific tests"
  • Make and test predictions
  • Make and record observations
  • Collect and organize data
  • Form conclusions
  • Apply knowledge gained
  • Investigate the night sky
  • Investigate living creatures
  • Investigate electromagnetism
  • Investigate rocks and minerals
    • Properties of rocks and minerals
    • Composition of rock and mineral samples
    • Test to classify samples
  • Investigate soil
  • Investigate plants responses