5th Grade ELA (Iowa Core)

Reading: Literature (RL)

• RL.5.1 Quote a text exactly when explaining what it says or what can be inferred.
• RL.5.2 Find the theme of a story, play or poem from details, e.g. how characters face challenges, and summarize it.
• RL.5.3 Compare characters, settings or events using specific details, such as how characters interact.
• RL.5.4 Figure out what words and phrases mean, including metaphors, similes and other figurative language.
• RL.5.5 Explain how chapters, scenes or stanzas fit together to make the overall structure of a work.
• RL.5.6 Describe how the narrator's or speaker's viewpoint affects the way events are told.
• RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements add to a text's meaning, tone or mood.
• RL.5.9 Compare stories in the same genre on how they handle similar themes and topics.
• RL.5.10 By the end of the year, read stories, drama and poetry at the top of the grades 4–5 range independently and proficiently.

Reading: Informational Text (RI)

• RI.5.1 Quote a text exactly when explaining what it says or what can be inferred.
• RI.5.2 Identify two or more main ideas, explain how key details support them and summarize the text.
• RI.5.3 Explain how people, events or ideas relate or interact in history, science or technical texts.
• RI.5.4 Work out the meaning of general academic and subject-specific words for a grade 5 topic.
• RI.5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas or information in two or more texts.
• RI.5.6 Analyze several accounts of one event or topic, noting how their viewpoints agree or differ.
• RI.5.7 Draw on information from several print or digital sources to answer a question or solve a problem.
• RI.5.8 Explain how an author backs up points with reasons and evidence, matching each to its point.
• RI.5.9 Bring together information from several texts on one topic to write or speak with knowledge.
• RI.5.10 By the end of the year, read informational texts at the top of the grades 4–5 range independently and proficiently.

Reading: Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.5.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to decode and spell words.
  • a. Read new multisyllable words accurately in and out of context, using letter-sound and syllable patterns, roots and affixes.
• RF.5.4 Read grade-level poetry and prose aloud accurately, automatically and with expression at a suitable pace, self-correcting as needed.

Writing Foundations (WF)

• WF.5.1 Write legibly for a range of tasks and purposes.
  • a. Use earlier handwriting skills accurately and automatically.

Writing (W)

• W.5.1 Write opinion pieces that explain a perspective with reasons and evidence.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state an opinion and group ideas logically.
  • b. Give logically ordered reasons backed by facts and details.
  • c. Link the opinion and reasons with words, phrases and clauses.
  • d. End with a concluding statement linked to the opinion.
• W.5.2 Write informative pieces that examine a topic and share information clearly.
  • a. Introduce the topic with a clear focus, group information logically and use formatting, pictures or multimedia when useful.
  • b. Build the topic using facts, definitions, specific details, quotes and examples.
  • c. Link ideas within and across categories with words, phrases and clauses.
  • d. Use precise language and subject-specific words.
  • e. End with a concluding statement linked to the explanation.
• W.5.3 Write narratives with effective technique, describing details and a clear order of events.
  • a. Orient the reader to the situation and characters and order events naturally.
  • b. Use dialogue, description and pacing to develop events and how characters respond.
  • c. Use transition words, phrases and clauses to manage the order of events.
  • d. Use precise words 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 guidance, improve writing through planning, revising, editing, rewriting or a fresh approach, using grade 5 conventions.
• W.5.6 With some guidance, use technology to produce and publish writing and work with others, with adequate keyboarding skills.
• W.5.7 Do short research projects using several sources to explore different sides of a topic.
• W.5.8 Recall or gather information from sources, summarize or paraphrase it in notes and list sources.
• W.5.9 Draw evidence from texts to support analysis, reflection and research.
  • a. Apply the grade 5 reading standards to literature.
  • b. Apply the grade 5 reading standards to informational texts.
• W.5.10 Write regularly over short and extended time frames for a range of subject-specific tasks, purposes and audiences.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.5.1 Join group discussions about grade 5 topics and texts well, adding to what others say.
  • a. Come prepared, drawing on required reading and other knowledge.
  • b. Follow agreed rules for discussion and carry out assigned roles.
  • c. Ask and answer specific questions and expand on others' remarks.
  • d. Review key ideas and draw conclusions from the discussion.
• SL.5.2 Summarize a read-aloud or information given in various media.
• SL.5.3 Summarize a speaker's points and explain how reasons and evidence support each claim.
• SL.5.4 Report on a topic or give an opinion, ordering ideas logically with facts and describing details.
• SL.5.5 Include multimedia and visual displays when they strengthen main ideas.
• SL.5.6 Adapt speech to different contexts and tasks, using formal English with suitable eye contact, volume and pronunciation when fitting.

Language (L)

• L.5.1 Show control of standard English grammar and usage in speech and writing.
  • a. Explain what conjunctions, prepositions and interjections do, generally and in given sentences.
  • b. Form and use perfect verb tenses.
  • c. Use verb tense to show different times, sequences, states and conditions.
  • d. Spot and fix unwanted shifts in verb tense.
  • e. Use correlative conjunctions such as either/or.
• L.5.2 Show control of capital letters, punctuation and spelling in writing.
  • a. Use punctuation to separate list items.
  • 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 with underlining, quotation marks or italics.
  • e. Spell grade-level words correctly, checking references when needed.
• L.5.3 Use knowledge of language and conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening.
  • a. Expand, combine and shorten sentences for meaning, interest and style.
  • b. Compare varieties of English, such as dialects and registers, used in literature.
• L.5.4 Figure out new and multiple-meaning words met in grade 5 reading and content, using several strategies.
  • a. Use context such as cause and effect or comparisons as clues.
  • b. Use familiar Greek and Latin word parts as clues to meaning.
  • c. Use dictionaries, glossaries and thesauruses for pronunciation and exact meanings.
• L.5.5 Show understanding of figurative language, word relationships and small differences in meaning.
  • a. Interpret similes, metaphors and other figurative language in context.
  • b. Recognize and explain common idioms, adages and proverbs.
  • c. Use links between words such as synonyms, antonyms and homographs to understand each word better.
• L.5.6 Learn and correctly use grade-level academic and subject words, including words that signal contrast, addition and other logic.