Standards

5th GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS FOR WRITING

   1. WRITING STRATEGIES: Students write clear, coherent, and focused essays. Writing exhibits awareness of audience and purpose. Essays contain formal introductions, bodies of supporting evidence, and conclusions. Students successfully use the stages of the writing process, as needed.

 
         2. Create a multiple-paragraph expository composition that

            1. establishes a topic, key ideas or events in sequence and/or chronological order
            2. provides details and transitional expressions which link paragraph to paragraph in a clear line of thought
            3. offers a concluding paragraph that summarizes the key ideas and details

WRITTEN AND ORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS
(English Language Conventions are integral to Writing and to Listening and Speaking. Thus, these standards have been placed between the other two.)

   1. WRITTEN AND ORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS: Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions that are appropriate to each grade level.

      Sentence Structure:

    1.  Identify and correctly use prepositional phrases, appositives, and independent and dependent clauses; use transitions and conjunctions to elaborate ideas

      Grammar:

    2.  Identify and correctly use verbs that are often misused (e.g., lie/lay, sit/set, rise/raise); modifiers; and normative, objective, and possessive pronouns

      Punctuation:

     3.  Use colon to separate hours and minutes and to introduce a list; use quotation marks around exact words of speaker and names of poems, songs, short stories,  etc.

      Capitalization:

     4.  Use correct capitalization

      Spelling:

      5. Spell roots, suffixes prefixes, contractions, and syllable constructions correctly

 

 


Mathematical Reasoning
1.0 Students make decisions about how to approach problems:

    1.1 Analyze problems by identifying relationships, discriminating relevant from irrelevant information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns  

    1.2 Determine when and how to break a problem into simpler parts.


Number Sense
1.0 Students compute with very large and very small numbers, positive integers, decimals, and fractions and understand the relationship between decimals, fractions, and percents. They understand the relative magnitudes of numbers:

    1.1 Estimate, round, and manipulate very large (e.g., millions) and very small (e.g., thousandths) numbers.

    1.2 Interpret percents as a part of a hundred; find decimal and percent equivalents for common fractions and explain why they represent the same value; compute a given percent of a whole number. 


2.0 Students perform calculations and solve problems involving addition, subtraction, and simple multiplication and division of fractions and decimals:

    2.1 Add, subtract, multiply, and divide with decimals; add with negative integers; subtract positive integers from negative integers; and verify the reasonableness of the results.