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.5.6

Students will analyze literature that incorporates figurative language at the fifth grade reading level to determine meaning. 

Pacing  

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Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.5.6.1

Identify similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and various other figurative language devices used by the author.  

5.RL.4

5.L.5a

 

LA.5.6.2

Interpret information from visual media sources and how they contribute to the meaning, tone, and beauty of a text. 

5.RL.7

 

LA.5.6.3

Identify and explain common idioms, adages, and proverbs using context clues and textual evidence. 

5.L.5b

 

LA.5.6.4

Read with sufficient fluency to support comprehension while increasing complexity of reading at grade leveled text.

5.RF.4a 

5.RL.10

 

LA.5.6.5

Prepare and follow agreed upon rules to participate in a collaborative discussion. Ask and answer questions and elaborate on the remarks of others. Use key ideas to draw their own conclusion.

5.SL.1a

5.SL.1b

5.SL.1c

5.SL.1d

 

LA.5.6.7

Adapt speech to various contexts using formal English when appropriate to task and situation.

5.SL.6

 

LA.5.6.8

Incorporate figurative language elements in routinely written pieces. 

5.W.10

5.RL.4

 

LA.5.6.9

Form and use the perfect verb tenses to convey various times, sequences and states. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tenses.

5.L.1b

5.L.1c

5.L.1d

Academic Vocabulary: analyze, interpret, review, reference, text evidence

Content Vocabulary: simile, metaphor, idiom onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, adages, proverbs figurative language