5th Grade ELA (Ohio's Learning Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• RL.5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what it says and drawing inferences.
• RL.5.2 Analyze how a text develops by finding its theme and summarizing.
  • a. Find a theme, e.g. from how characters meet challenges.
  • b. Summarize the text, including the theme.
• RL.5.3 Compare two or more characters, settings or events using specific details.
• RL.5.4 Work out word and phrase meanings, including metaphors, similes and idioms.
• RL.5.5 Explain how chapters, scenes or stanzas fit together to give a story its structure.
• RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view shapes how events are described.
• 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 their approaches to similar themes and topics.
• RL.5.10 By year's end, read grades 4–5 literature independently and proficiently.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• RI.5.1 Quote accurately when explaining what a text says and drawing inferences.
• RI.5.2 Analyze how a text develops two or more main ideas through key details.
  • a. Find main ideas and how details support them.
  • b. Summarize main ideas, key details and other important information.
• RI.5.3 Explain relationships between people, events or ideas in historical, scientific or technical texts.
• RI.5.4 Work out general academic and subject-specific words in grade 5 topics.
• RI.5.5 Compare the overall structure of events or ideas in two or more texts.
• RI.5.6 Analyze several accounts of the same event, noting similarities and differences in point of view.
• RI.5.7 Draw on information from several print and digital sources to find answers quickly.
• RI.5.8 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence and which supports which point.
• RI.5.9 Combine information from several texts on one topic to write or speak knowledgeably.
• RI.5.10 By year's end, read grades 4–5 informational texts independently at the high end.

Reading Foundations (RF)

• RF.5.3 Use letter–sound, syllable and morphology knowledge to read unfamiliar multisyllable words accurately.
• RF.5.4 Read with enough accuracy and fluency to support understanding.
  • a. Read grade 5 text with purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read prose and poetry aloud accurately, smoothly, with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct words, rereading as needed.

Writing (W)

• W.5.1 Write opinion pieces supporting a point of view with logically ordered reasons and information.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state an opinion and group ideas logically.
  • b. Order reasons logically, supported by facts and details.
  • c. Link opinion and reasons with words, phrases and clauses.
  • 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 the topic with a focus and group information logically.
  • b. Develop with facts, definitions, details, quotations or examples.
  • c. Link ideas within and across categories.
  • d. Use precise and topic-specific words.
  • e. End with a concluding statement or section.
• W.5.3 Write real or imagined narratives with effective technique, vivid details and clear sequence.
  • a. Set the situation, narrator or characters and natural order.
  • b. Use dialogue, description and pacing.
  • c. Use varied transitions to show order.
  • d. Use concrete words and sensory details.
  • e. End with a conclusion that follows from the events.
• W.5.4 Produce clear, coherent writing suited to task, purpose and audience.
• W.5.5 Develop and strengthen writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach.
• W.5.6 With some guidance, use technology, including the internet, to produce, publish and collaborate.
• W.5.7 Do short research projects using several sources to investigate aspects of a topic.
• W.5.8 Recall or gather relevant information from print and digital sources, paraphrase and list sources.
• W.5.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts for analysis, reflection and research.
  • a. Use reading literature standards to compare characters, settings or events.
  • b. Use reading informational standards to show which reasons support which points.
• W.5.10 Write routinely over short and extended time frames for a range of tasks and audiences.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.5.1 Take part in a range of discussions on grade 5 topics and texts.
  • a. Come prepared, having read the required material.
  • b. Follow discussion rules and carry out assigned roles.
  • c. Ask and answer specific questions and build on others' remarks.
  • d. Review key ideas and draw conclusions from the discussion.
• SL.5.2 Summarize texts read aloud or information in different media.
• SL.5.3 Summarize a speaker's points and explain how reasons support each claim.
• SL.5.4 Report on a topic or present an opinion in a logical order with supporting facts and details.
• SL.5.5 Add multimedia and visual displays to presentations to develop main ideas.
• SL.5.6 Adapt speech to different contexts and tasks, using formal English when suitable.

Language (L)

• L.5.1 Use standard grammar and usage when speaking and writing.
  • a. Explain conjunctions, prepositions and interjections.
  • b. Form and use perfect verb tenses.
  • c. Use tenses to show time, sequence, state and condition.
  • d. Find and fix inappropriate tense shifts.
  • e. Use correlative conjunctions.
• L.5.2 Punctuate items in a series, introductory elements and titles, and spell grade 5 words correctly.
• L.5.3 Expand, combine and reduce sentences and compare dialects and registers.
• L.5.4 Use context, cause and effect and Greek or Latin word parts to work out meanings.
• L.5.5 Interpret figurative language and relate words through synonyms, antonyms and homographs.
• L.5.6 Use grade 5 words that signal contrast, addition and other logical relationships.