English Language Arts Curriculum

5th Grade

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.

Outcomes and Components:

LA.5.1

Students will cite explicit details and evidence from a fictional or informational text and use them to make inferences.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.5.1.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 5.RL.1
 

LA.5.1.2

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 5.RI.1
 

LA.5.1.3

Explain the function of conjunctions and prepositions and utilize them in writing. 5.L.1a
 

LA.5.1.4

Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor). 5.L.1e

Academic Vocabulary: predict, infer, cite, quotation

Content Vocabulary: