5th Grade ELA (Mississippi CCR Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• RL.5.1 Quote accurately from the text when explaining what it says and drawing inferences.
• RL.5.2 Find a theme from details and summarize the text.
• RL.5.3 Compare and contrast characters, settings, or events.
• RL.5.4 Work out word meanings, including figurative language.
• RL.5.5 Explain how chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together.
• RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's point of view shapes how events are told.
• RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements add to meaning.
• RL.5.8 (Not applicable to literature.)
• RL.5.9 Compare stories in the same genre on similar themes.
• RL.5.10 Read grades 4–5 literature well on their own.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• RI.5.1 Quote accurately from the text when explaining what it says and drawing inferences.
• RI.5.2 Find two or more main ideas, explain how details support them, and summarize.
• RI.5.3 Explain how two or more people, events, or ideas relate.
• RI.5.4 Work out the meaning of general academic and subject-specific words.
• RI.5.5 Compare how two or more texts are structured.
• RI.5.6 Analyze several accounts of the same event and their points of view.
• RI.5.7 Use several sources to find answers quickly.
• RI.5.8 Explain how reasons and evidence support particular points.
• RI.5.9 Combine information from several texts on one topic.
• RI.5.10 Read grades 4–5 informational texts well on their own.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.5.1 (Not applicable in grade 5.)
• RF.5.2 (Not applicable in grade 5.)
• RF.5.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to decode words.
  • a. Use letter-sound, syllable, and word-part knowledge to read unfamiliar longer words.
• RF.5.4 Read accurately and fluently enough to support understanding.
  • a. Read grade-level text with a purpose and understand it.
  • b. Read prose and poetry aloud accurately, at a good rate, and with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct word reading.

Writing (W)

• W.5.1 Write opinion pieces that back a viewpoint with reasons and facts.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state an opinion, and group ideas logically.
  • b. Give reasons in a logical order backed by facts.
  • c. Link the opinion and reasons with words, phrases, and clauses.
  • d. End with a concluding statement or section.
• W.5.2 Write informative texts that give information clearly.
  • a. Introduce the topic with a general observation and focus and group information.
  • b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, and examples.
  • c. Link ideas within categories with words, phrases, and clauses.
  • d. Use precise language and subject vocabulary.
  • e. End with a concluding statement or section.
• W.5.3 Write narratives with technique, descriptive details, and clear order.
  • a. Set up a situation and introduce a narrator or characters.
  • b. Use dialogue, description, and pacing to develop events.
  • c. Use transition words, phrases, and clauses to order events.
  • d. Use concrete words and sensory details.
  • e. End with a conclusion that follows from the events.
• W.5.4 Write clearly and coherently to suit the task, purpose, and audience.
• W.5.5 With support, strengthen writing by planning, revising, and editing.
• W.5.6 With some support, use technology to publish writing and work with others.
• W.5.7 Carry out short research projects on different aspects of a topic.
• W.5.8 Gather relevant information, summarize or paraphrase it, and list sources.
• W.5.9 Use evidence from literary or informational texts in writing.
  • a. Apply grade 5 literature reading standards to writing.
  • b. Apply grade 5 informational reading standards to writing.
• W.5.10 Write routinely over short and longer time frames.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.5.1 Take part well in discussions on grade 5 topics.
  • a. Prepare for discussions by studying the required material.
  • b. Follow agreed rules and carry out assigned roles.
  • c. Ask and answer questions and build on others' remarks.
  • d. Review key ideas and draw conclusions from the discussion.
• SL.5.2 Summarize a text read aloud or information shown in different media.
• SL.5.3 Summarize a speaker's points and how reasons support the claims.
• SL.5.4 Report on a topic or present an opinion in a logical order.
• SL.5.5 Add multimedia and visual displays to presentations.
• SL.5.6 Adjust speech to the situation, using formal English when suitable.

Language (L)

• L.5.1 Use standard English grammar and usage.
  • a. Explain what conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections do.
  • b. Form and use perfect verb tenses.
  • c. Use verb tense to show times, sequences, and conditions.
  • d. Spot and fix unsuitable shifts in verb tense.
  • e. Use correlative conjunctions.
• L.5.2 Use standard capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
  • a. Use punctuation between items in a list.
  • b. Use a comma after an introductory element.
  • c. Use commas with yes and no, tag questions, and direct address.
  • d. Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics for titles.
  • e. Spell grade-level words correctly.
• L.5.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
  • a. Expand, combine, and shorten sentences for meaning and style.
  • b. Compare the kinds of English used in stories, dramas, and poems.
• L.5.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words.
  • a. Use context clues such as cause and effect and comparisons.
  • b. Use Greek and Latin roots and affixes as clues.
  • c. Use reference materials to find exact meanings.
• L.5.5 Understand figurative language and word relationships.
  • a. Interpret similes and metaphors in context.
  • b. Explain common idioms, adages, and proverbs.
  • c. Use relationships such as synonyms, antonyms, and homographs.
• L.5.6 Learn and use words that show contrast, addition, and other logical links.