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. |
Outcomes and Components:
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LA.5.3 |
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. | ||
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
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LA.5.3.1 |
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.3 | |
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LA.5.3.2 |
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.3 | |
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LA.5.3.3 |
Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb tenses. | 5.L.1b | |
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LA.5.3.4 |
Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions. | 5.L.1c | |
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Academic Vocabulary: summarize, identify, illustration, visual clues, implied, debatable, text evidence, analyze, similarities/differences |
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Content Vocabulary:theme, character, point of view, character traits, compare/contrast, problem/solution, sequence, foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, cliffhanger, moral |