5th Grade ELA (Arizona ELA Standards)

Reading Standards for Literature

• 5.RL.1 Quote a story exactly to support what it states directly and what can be inferred.
• 5.RL.2 Work out a theme from details such as how characters face challenges or a poem's speaker reflects, and summarize the text.
• 5.RL.3 Compare two or more characters, settings or events using specific details from the text.
• 5.RL.4 Figure out what words and phrases mean, including metaphors, similes and other figurative language.
• 5.RL.5 Explain how chapters, scenes or stanzas fit together to give a story, drama or poem its overall structure.
• 5.RL.6 Explain how the narrator's or speaker's viewpoint colors the way events are told.
• 5.RL.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements add to a text's meaning, tone or beauty.
• 5.RL.9 Compare how stories of one genre (e.g. mysteries, adventures) handle similar themes and topics.
• 5.RL.10 By year's end, read grade 5 stories, plays and poems well on their own.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

• 5.RI.1 Quote an informational text exactly to support what it states directly and what can be inferred.
• 5.RI.2 Find two or more main ideas, explain how key details support them and summarize the text.
• 5.RI.3 Explain how people, events, ideas or concepts in a history, science or technical text relate to each other.
• 5.RI.4 Work out the meaning of general academic and subject-specific words and phrases in a grade 5 text.
• 5.RI.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas or information in two or more texts.
• 5.RI.6 Study several accounts of one event or topic and compare the viewpoints they show.
• 5.RI.7 Use several print or digital sources to find an answer or solve a problem quickly.
• 5.RI.8 Explain how an author backs up points with reasons and evidence, matching each reason to its point.
• 5.RI.9 Pull together facts from several texts on one topic to write or speak about it with knowledge.
• 5.RI.10 By year's end, read grade 5 history, science and technical texts well on their own.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

• 5.RF.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics, word analysis and morphology to decode multisyllable words in and out of context.
  • a. Use combined knowledge of letter-sound links to read unfamiliar multisyllable words accurately.
  • b. Use the six syllable types to read grade-level words accurately.
  • c. Use morphology to read grade-level words accurately.
  • d. Use Greek and Latin affixes and roots to read unfamiliar words.
• 5.RF.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

• 5.W.1 Write opinion pieces about a topic or text and back the opinion with reasons and information.
  • 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.
• 5.W.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 conclusion related to the information.
• 5.W.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 a variety of transitions to manage the sequence.
  • d. Use concrete words, phrases and sensory details.
  • e. End with a conclusion that follows from the events.
• 5.W.4 Produce clear, coherent writing whose development and organization suit the task, purpose and audience.
• 5.W.5 With help, improve writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying something new.
• 5.W.6 With some guidance and support, use technology, including the internet, to produce, publish and collaborate, with keyboarding skills.
• 5.W.7 Do short research projects using several sources to build knowledge of a topic.
• 5.W.8 Gather information from experience and print or digital sources, summarize or paraphrase it in notes and list sources.
• 5.W.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.
• 5.W.10 Write often, in long projects and short sittings, for many tasks, purposes and readers.

Writing Foundations (Arizona)

• 5.WF.1 Show handwriting skills by writing legible, fluent cursive.
  • a. Read and write upper- and lowercase cursive letters.
  • b. Write ideas legibly and fluently with suitable spacing and indents.

Speaking and Listening Standards

• 5.SL.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.
• 5.SL.2 Summarize a text read aloud or information presented in different media and formats.
• 5.SL.3 Sum up what a speaker says and explain the reasons and evidence behind each claim.
• 5.SL.4 Give a report or an opinion in a logical order with facts and details, speaking clearly.
• 5.SL.5 Include multimedia and visual displays in presentations when they help develop main ideas or themes.
• 5.SL.6 Adapt speech to different contexts and tasks, using formal English when suitable.

Language Standards

• 5.L.1 Use correct standard English grammar when speaking and writing.
  • a. Explain what conjunctions, prepositions and interjections do in general and in particular sentences.
  • 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).
  • f. Write a paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion.
• 5.L.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.
• 5.L.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.
• 5.L.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words using a range of strategies.
  • a. Use familiar Greek and Latin word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes) as meaning clues.
  • b. Use context (cause/effect, comparisons) as a clue to meaning.
  • c. Use print and digital references to find pronunciation and meaning.
• 5.L.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.
• 5.L.6 Learn and use grade-level academic and subject words, including words that signal contrast or addition (however, moreover).