Reading and English and Language Arts (ELA)

5^th Grade English Language Arts

Reading

In fifth grade, students broaden and deepen their understanding of informational and literary text. Students reflect on their skills and adjust their comprehension and vocabulary strategies to become better readers. Students discuss, reflect, and respond, using evidence from text, to a wide variety of literary genres and informational text. Students read for pleasure, choosing books based on personal preference, topic, genre, theme, or author.

Writing

In fifth grade, students have developed a strong personal voice in their writing. This is demonstrated by the way they sometimes inject humor into their narratives and how they add emphasis or opinion into informational persuasive writing. Students use precise, specialized vocabulary appropriately in content- area writing. They experiment with sentence length and complex sentence structures and vary leads and endings. Collaborative writing efforts are taken seriously, often with assigned responsibilities and checklists. Scoring guides, often student-initiated, provide criteria for critiquing their own work and that of others. These guides are often detailed, addressing content, organization, style, and conventions.

Language: Grammar and Conventions

Grammar consists of a description of all the elements in a language. It is the art of speaking or writing with correctness. Students will develop and demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when reading, writing, speaking and listening.