5th Grade ELA (Alaska Standards)

Reading Standards for Literature

• RL.5.1 Quote accurately and use explicit details to support inferences about a story.
• RL.5.2 Infer a theme or message from how characters meet challenges or a speaker reflects, and summarize events in order.
• RL.5.3 Compare two or more characters, settings or events through their interactions and how conflicts are resolved.
• RL.5.4 Work out word meanings using literary devices such as imagery, metaphor, analogy and hyperbole.
• RL.5.5 Explain how chapters, scenes or stanzas fit together to give a story, drama or poem its overall structure.
• RL.5.6 Explain how a first- or third-person narrator's point of view shapes how events and characters are described.
• RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements add to meaning, tone or appeal, e.g. in graphic novels.
• RL.5.9 Compare stories of one genre, such as mysteries or adventures, for theme and plot.
• RL.5.10 By year's end, read literature from many cultures in the grades 4–6 complexity range, with support at the high end.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

• RI.5.1 Quote an informational text exactly to support what it states directly and what can be inferred.
• RI.5.2 Find the main idea, subtopics and key details and summarize events in order.
• RI.5.3 Explain cause/effect relationships among people, events or ideas in history, science or technical texts.
• RI.5.4 Work out the meaning of general academic and subject-specific words and phrases in a grade 5 text.
• RI.5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas or information in two or more texts.
• RI.5.6 Find the author's purpose and compare several accounts of one event, noting similarities and differing viewpoints.
• RI.5.7 Use several print or digital sources to find an answer or solve a problem quickly.
• RI.5.8 Explain how an author backs up points with reasons and evidence, matching each reason to its point.
• RI.5.9 Pull together facts from several texts on one topic to write or speak about it with knowledge.
• RI.5.10 By year's end, read history, science and technical texts in the grades 4–6 complexity range, with support at the high end.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

• RF.5.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics, word analysis and morphology to decode multisyllable words in and out of context. (being checked)
  • a. Use letter-sound, syllable and word-part (morphology) knowledge to read unfamiliar long words in and out of context.
• RF.5.4 Read with enough accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
  • a. Read texts at grade level with a clear purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read grade-level prose and poetry aloud accurately, at a suitable rate and with expression, over repeated readings.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as needed.

Writing Standards

• W.5.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supported by facts and reasons.
  • a. Introduce the topic clearly, state an opinion and organize ideas logically.
  • b. Give logically ordered reasons supported by facts and details.
  • c. Connect the opinion and reasons with linking words and clauses (e.g. consequently, specifically).
  • d. End with a conclusion related to the opinion.
• W.5.2 Write informative texts that examine a topic and convey ideas clearly.
  • a. Introduce a topic, give a general focus, group information logically and add formatting or media when useful.
  • b. Build up the topic with facts, definitions, specific details, quotations or examples.
  • c. Connect ideas inside and between sections with linking words and clauses (e.g. in contrast, especially).
  • d. Use precise language and subject vocabulary.
  • e. End with a concluding section that restates the focus or explanation in other words.
• W.5.3 Write narratives of real or imagined experiences with descriptive details and a clear sequence.
  • a. Set up a situation, introduce a narrator or characters and let events unfold naturally.
  • b. Use dialogue, description and pacing to develop events and characters.
  • c. Use varied transitions and foreshadowing to manage pace and sequence.
  • d. Use concrete words, phrases and sensory details.
  • e. End with a conclusion that follows from the events.
• W.5.4 Produce clear, coherent writing whose development and organization suit the task, purpose and audience.
• W.5.5 With help, improve writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying something new.
• W.5.6 With some help, use technology and the internet to produce, edit and publish writing, typing at least two pages in a sitting.
• W.5.7 Do short research projects using several sources to build knowledge of a topic.
• W.5.8 Gather information from experience and print or digital sources, summarize or paraphrase it in notes and list sources.
• W.5.9 Use evidence from literature or informational texts to back up analysis, reflection and research.
  • a. Apply grade 5 reading standards to literature in writing.
  • b. Use the grade 5 informational reading skills when writing about nonfiction.
• W.5.10 Write often, in long projects and short sittings, for many tasks, purposes and readers.

Speaking and Listening Standards

• SL.5.1 Take part effectively in one-on-one, group and teacher-led discussions, building on others' ideas and expressing one's own.
  • a. Come prepared and draw on that preparation and other knowledge to explore ideas.
  • b. Follow agreed rules for discussion and carry out assigned roles.
  • c. Ask and answer specific questions and elaborate on others' remarks.
  • d. Review key ideas and draw conclusions from the information and knowledge gained.
• SL.5.2 Summarize a text read aloud or information presented in different media and formats.
• SL.5.3 Sum up what a speaker says and explain the reasons and evidence behind each claim.
• SL.5.4 Give a report or an opinion in a logical order with facts and details, speaking clearly.
• SL.5.5 Include multimedia and visual displays in presentations when they help develop main ideas or themes.
• SL.5.6 Adapt speech to different contexts and tasks, using formal English when suitable.

Language Standards

• L.5.1 Use correct standard English grammar when speaking and writing.
  • a. Use nouns, verbs, adjectives, relative pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections for their purpose.
  • b. Form and use the perfect verb tenses.
  • c. Use verb tense to show times, sequences, states and conditions.
  • d. Recognize and fix inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
  • e. Use correlative conjunctions (either/or, neither/nor).
• L.5.2 Show command of capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Punctuate lists of items correctly.
  • b. Use a comma after an introductory element.
  • c. Use commas with yes and no, tag questions and direct address.
  • d. Show titles of works by underlining, quotation marks or italics.
  • e. Spell grade-level words correctly, checking references as needed.
• L.5.3 Apply what is known about language and its rules in writing, speaking, reading and listening.
  • a. Expand, combine and reduce sentences for meaning, interest and style.
  • b. Compare the kinds of English (dialects, registers) used in stories, plays or poems.
• L.5.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words using a range of strategies.
  • a. Use roots, prefixes, suffixes, sentence structure and context as clues to meaning.
  • b. Use familiar Greek and Latin word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes) as meaning clues.
  • c. Use print and digital references to find pronunciation and meaning.
• L.5.5 Understand figurative language, how words relate and fine shades of meaning.
  • a. Explain similes, metaphors and other figurative language in context.
  • b. Recognize and explain common idioms, adages and proverbs.
  • c. Use relationships between words (synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to understand each better.
• L.5.6 Learn and use grade-level academic and subject words, including words that signal contrast or addition (however, moreover).