5th Grade ELA (Missouri Learning Standards)

Reading (R) – big idea 1

• 5.R.1.A.a Draws conclusions and inferences and uses text evidence to support analysis.
• 5.R.1.A.b Draws conclusions with text evidence for what is stated and inferred.
• 5.R.1.A.c Notices when understanding breaks down and fixes it.
• 5.R.1.B.a Uses context to work out academic words from Latin, Greek, or other roots and affixes.
• 5.R.1.B.b Uses context to work out unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.
• 5.R.1.B.c Builds analogies.
• 5.R.1.B.d Explains idioms, adages, similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and other sayings.
• 5.R.1.B.e Identifies and uses words that signal contrast, addition, and other links.
• 5.R.1.B.f Uses a dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus for pronunciation, part of speech, meaning, and word choice.
• 5.R.1.B.g Uses conversational, academic, and subject words and phrases.
• 5.R.1.C.a Compares and contrasts ideas across fiction and nonfiction texts.
• 5.R.1.C.b Connects texts to the world, seeing that literature reflects its culture and time.
• 5.R.1.D.a Reads suitable texts independently for sustained periods.
• 5.R.1.D.b Shows evidence of independent reading.

Reading (R) – big idea 2

• 5.R.2.A.a Compares characters' roles, relationships, and conflicts across plots.
• 5.R.2.A.b Explains the theme or moral, conflict, and resolution of a story or novel.
• 5.R.2.A.c Describes how the teller's viewpoint shapes the way events are told.
• 5.R.2.A.d Recognizes foreshadowing.
• 5.R.2.A.e Explains how a historical event or movement affects literature.
• 5.R.2.A.f Meets origin myths and important characters and events in mythology.
• 5.R.2.A.g Meets different kinds of third-person point of view.
• 5.R.2.B.a Explains how poets use sound and visual elements.
• 5.R.2.B.b Identifies forms of poems.
• 5.R.2.C.a Analyzes how a text and its dramatic adaptation are alike.
• 5.R.2.C.b Explains structural elements of drama.
• 5.R.2.C.c Judges the impact of imagery, sensory details, and figurative language.

Reading (R) – big idea 3

• 5.R.3.A.a Uses several text features and graphics to find information and get an overview.
• 5.R.3.A.b Interprets procedural text to complete a task or solve a problem.
• 5.R.3.A.c Interprets factual or numerical information.
• 5.R.3.B.a Judges whether the author's purpose was met and gives reasons and evidence.
• 5.R.3.B.b Analyzes several accounts of one event, noting differences in point of view.
• 5.R.3.B.c Checks facts using established methods.
• 5.R.3.B.d Identifies the author's position, premises, evidence, and conclusion in an argument.
• 5.R.3.B.e Spots exaggerated, contradictory, or misleading statements.
• 5.R.3.B.f Explains the kind of evidence used to support a claim.
• 5.R.3.B.g Uses reasoning to judge the logic of an author's conclusion, with evidence.
• 5.R.3.C.a Identifies devices used in biographies, such as how major life events are presented.
• 5.R.3.C.b Explains stated and implied purposes of an informational text.
• 5.R.3.C.c Analyzes how a text's organization shapes relationships between ideas.
• 5.R.3.C.d Analyzes several accounts of one event, noting likenesses and differences in point of view.
• 5.R.3.C.e Combines information from several texts on one topic to write or speak knowledgeably.

Reading (R) – big idea 4

• 5.R.4.A.a Explains how different media present messages differently.
• 5.R.4.A.b Compares techniques used in different media.
• 5.R.4.A.c Identifies the point of view of media presentations.
• 5.R.4.A.d Analyzes how formal or informal different digital media are.
• 5.R.4.A.e Explains how a web page's text and graphics help readers understand.

Reading Foundations (RF) – big idea 3

• 5.RF.3.A.a Decodes unfamiliar longer words in context using letter sounds, syllables, and word parts.
• 5.RF.3.A.b Reads roots, prefixes, suffixes, and key subject words.

Reading Foundations (RF) – big idea 4

• 5.RF.4.A.a Reads suitable texts fluently and uses context to confirm or correct words, rereading as needed.

Writing (W) – big idea 1

• 5.W.1.A.a Chooses a genre that fits the purpose and audience.
• 5.W.1.A.b Writes questions about the topic.
• 5.W.1.A.c Uses or builds background knowledge on the topic.
• 5.W.1.A.d Uses a prewriting strategy.
• 5.W.1.B.a Chooses a suitable structure and builds a multi-paragraph text on one main idea.
• 5.W.1.B.b States and supports a main idea with a topic sentence early in the first paragraph.
• 5.W.1.B.c Sorts and orders facts, details, or events into introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs.
• 5.W.1.B.d Restates the main idea in the conclusion.
• 5.W.1.B.e Suits the audience, organization, and purpose.
• 5.W.1.C.a With help, revises main idea, order, focus, details, word choice, sentences, transitions, audience, and voice.
• 5.W.1.C.b With help, edits for language conventions.
• 5.W.1.D.a With help, uses technology and the internet to produce and publish writing.
• 5.W.1.D.b Types at least two pages, ideally in one sitting.

Writing (W) – big idea 2

• 5.W.2.A.a Writes an opinion piece whose introduction supports the writer's purpose.
• 5.W.2.A.b States an opinion or position with relevant reasons backed by several facts and details.
• 5.W.2.A.c Uses specific, accurate words that fit the topic, audience, and purpose.
• 5.W.2.A.d Uses own words except when quoting a source.
• 5.W.2.A.e Names the author or source of facts used.
• 5.W.2.A.f Uses transitions to link opinion and reasons.
• 5.W.2.A.g Organizes reasons into introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs.
• 5.W.2.B.a Writes an informative piece that opens with a topic sentence.
• 5.W.2.B.b Develops body paragraphs from sources with facts, details, examples, and quotations.
• 5.W.2.B.c Uses an organizing format that suits the topic.
• 5.W.2.B.d Uses specific, relevant, accurate words that fit the topic, audience, and purpose.
• 5.W.2.B.e Uses own words except when quoting a source.
• 5.W.2.B.f Uses transitions to link ideas within and across categories.
• 5.W.2.B.g Uses text structures where helpful.
• 5.W.2.B.h Ends with a concluding paragraph about the information.
• 5.W.2.C.a Writes a narrative or poem that sets the scene and introduces a narrator or characters.
• 5.W.2.C.b Uses dialogue, motives, and description.
• 5.W.2.C.c Organizes events that unfold naturally with a beginning, middle, and end.
• 5.W.2.C.d Uses a range of transitions to manage the order of events.
• 5.W.2.C.e Uses specific, relevant, accurate words that fit the topic, audience, and purpose.

Writing (W) – big idea 3

• 5.W.3.A.a Lists suitable research topics.
• 5.W.3.A.b Writes and refines an open research question.
• 5.W.3.A.c Follows guidelines for collecting and recording information.
• 5.W.3.A.d Chooses relevant literary and informational sources.
• 5.W.3.A.e Judges how relevant, accurate, and reliable print and digital sources are.
• 5.W.3.A.f Turns graphic or visual data into written notes.
• 5.W.3.A.g Tells paraphrasing apart from plagiarism.
• 5.W.3.A.h Judges how fully and accurately the research question was answered against agreed criteria.
• 5.W.3.A.i Records source details in a standard format.

Language (L) – big idea 1

• 5.L.1.A.a Explains and uses the eight parts of speech.
• 5.L.1.A.b Uses relative pronouns and relative adverbs.
• 5.L.1.A.c Keeps pronouns consistent across a text.
• 5.L.1.A.d Uses verb tenses correctly and fixes errors.
• 5.L.1.A.e Writes a variety of complex sentences.
• 5.L.1.B.a Writes legibly.
• 5.L.1.B.b Puts a comma before a coordinating conjunction that joins two independent clauses.
• 5.L.1.B.c Uses a comma after an introductory clause in a complex sentence.
• 5.L.1.B.d Uses commas to set off yes and no.
• 5.L.1.B.e Uses italics for typed titles of books, magazines, and newspapers.
• 5.L.1.B.f Underlines handwritten titles of books, magazines, and newspapers.
• 5.L.1.B.g Uses quotation marks for titles of stories, songs, poems, and articles.
• 5.L.1.B.h Uses apostrophes for singular possessive nouns.
• 5.L.1.B.i Uses apostrophes for regular plural possessive nouns.
• 5.L.1.B.j Uses letter sounds, syllables, and word parts to read and spell unfamiliar longer words.

Speaking/Listening (SL) – big idea 1

• 5.SL.1.A.a Follows agreed listening and discussion rules independently.
• 5.SL.1.A.b Asks and answers specific questions and adds comments that link to others' remarks.
• 5.SL.1.A.c Follows, restates, and gives multi-step instructions in groups.
• 5.SL.1.A.d Listens for a speaker's message and summarizes the main points with evidence.

Speaking/Listening (SL) – big idea 2

• 5.SL.2.A.a Judges and improves own active listening.

Speaking/Listening (SL) – big idea 3

• 5.SL.3.A.a Summarizes others' points before giving own ideas.
• 5.SL.3.A.b Gives and judges evidence for an opinion.

Speaking/Listening (SL) – big idea 4

• 5.SL.4.A.a Uses efficient presentation skills with available resources and a range of media.
• 5.SL.4.A.b Plans a presentation to suit the audience.
• 5.SL.4.A.c Uses suitable pace, vocabulary, and gestures to put across a clear viewpoint.