English Language Arts Curriculum
5th Grade
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Course Purpose: |
Students will apply foundational skills to critically read and analyze grade level texts. Students will evaluate spoken language to compare and contrast point of view. Students will support formal writing with explanations and text evidence from multiple sources. |
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Outcome # |
Outcome |
| Students will cite explicit details and evidence from a fictional or informational text and use them to make inferences. | |
| Students will identify the theme of a fiction text or main idea of an informational text, noting the key details that support it. Students will summarize the text. | |
| Students will compare and contrast characters, settings, or events in a story and evaluate them, or explain the connections between events or ideas in an informational text. | |
| Students will use context to interpret words and phrases in a fiction or informational text, including academic, figurative, and domain-specific language. | |
| Students will analyze story structure and how story elements relate to one another in a fiction text | |
| Students will identify how a character’s or narrator’s point of view in a story affects how details are described and compares with their own point of view. | |
| Students will analyze how specific visual and text elements contribute to the meaning, mood, tone, or impact of the text. Students will interpret visual information and details in a text to help them better understand a topic. | |
| Students will identify reasons and cite evidence to support an author’s claims for an argument in a text. | |
| Students will integrate information from two or more texts on the same topic. | |
| Students will write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. | |
| LA.5.11 | Students will write an opinion piece on a topic or text, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. |
| LA.5.12 | Students will write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. |
| LA.5.13 | Students will analyze how specific visual and text elements contribute to the meaning, mood, tone, or impact of the text. Students will interpret visual information and details in a text to help them better understand a topic. |