5th Grade ELA (Oklahoma Academic Standards)

Standard 1: Listening and Speaking

• 5.1.L.1 Listens actively within group rules, noticing spoken and body-language cues.
• 5.1.L.2 Interprets a speaker's message and asks questions about its purpose.
• 5.1.S.1 Works respectfully in groups, sharing tasks and recognizing each member's input.
• 5.1.S.2 Joins discussions about reading and writing and shares own ideas clearly.
• 5.1.S.3 Gives organized, clear presentations alone or in groups, suited to the audience.

Standard 2: Reading and Writing Foundations and Process

• 5.2.PC Writes letters and words correctly in print or cursive with proper spacing.
• 5.2.SE.1 Spells unfamiliar longer words using sound patterns and syllable types.
• 5.2.SE.2 Spells contractions, abbreviations, and words with prefixes or suffixes correctly.
• 5.2.F.1 Reads regular and irregular sight words quickly, alone and in text.
• 5.2.F.2 Reads grade-level text smoothly and accurately with expression that shows understanding.
• 5.2.R.1 Explains how key details back up a text's main idea.
• 5.2.R.2 Uses details in stories, poems, and nonfiction to tell genres apart.
• 5.2.R.3 Summarizes the key events of a story in order.
• 5.2.R.4 Summarizes facts and details from an informational text.
• 5.2.W.1 Plans, organizes, and drafts narrative, informative, and opinion writing of several paragraphs.
• 5.2.W.2 Revises for clarity, flow, organization, and logical transitions.
• 5.2.W.3 Edits for punctuation, capital letters, and spelling, using resources.
• 5.2.W.4 Publishes final drafts for real audiences such as blogs, displays, or contests.

Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

• 5.3.R.1 Identifies the author's purpose and judges whether the text achieved it.
• 5.3.R.2 Tells whether a literary text is in first or third person and the effect of that choice.
• 5.3.R.3 Explains how setting, plot, characters, conflict, and theme build meaning.
• 5.3.R.4 Explains how imagery, simile, idiom, and other devices shape meaning.
• 5.3.R.5 Analyzes ideas in texts and supports inferences with evidence from the text.
• 5.3.R.6 Tells fact apart from opinion in informational text and explains the supporting reasons.
• 5.3.R.7 Identifies text structures such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.
• 5.3.W.1 Writes stories with a climax, resolution, developed characters, dialogue, and a steady point of view.
• 5.3.W.2 Writes informational essays with a developed topic, evidence, transitions, and varied word choice.
• 5.3.W.3 Writes opinion essays with a clear position, evidence from texts, and logical organization.

Standard 4: Vocabulary

• 5.4.R.1 Recognizes how words relate, such as synonyms, antonyms, analogies, and homophones.
• 5.4.R.2 Uses context clues to work out word meanings.
• 5.4.R.3 Uses affixes, Latin roots, and stems to work out the meanings of new words.
• 5.4.R.4 Uses dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses to understand words in a text.
• 5.4.R.5 Learns new grade-level words, links them to prior knowledge, and uses them in context.
• 5.4.W.1 Uses grade-level vocabulary in writing to express ideas clearly.
• 5.4.W.2 Chooses precise, vivid words that suit the type of writing and the audience.

Standard 5: Language

• 5.5.R.1 Recognizes simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• 5.5.R.2 Explains how parts of speech affect the meaning of a sentence.
• 5.5.W.1 Writes simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• 5.5.W.2 Uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, and pronouns for clarity and variety.
• 5.5.W.3 Fixes run-on sentences, subject-verb errors, and needless shifts in tense, person, or number.
• 5.5.W.4 Uses capital letters correctly.
• 5.5.W.5 Uses end punctuation correctly.
• 5.5.W.6 Uses easily confused pairs correctly, such as your/you're, its/it's, and there/their/they're.
• 5.5.W.7 Uses commas in lists, in dialogue, and between clauses in complex sentences.
• 5.5.W.8 Uses a colon to introduce a list.
• 5.5.W.9 Uses quotation marks for dialogue, quoted words, and titles.
• 5.5.W.10 Underlines or italicizes the titles of works.
• 5.5.W.11 Uses a semicolon to join the parts of a compound sentence.

Standard 6: Research

• 5.6.R.1 Researches own and given questions using varied sources, including interviews.
• 5.6.R.2 Uses headings, charts, captions, and other text features to analyze how a text is organized.
• 5.6.R.3 Judges whether information found is relevant and reliable.
• 5.6.W.1 Writes a workable research question.
• 5.6.W.2 Organizes research findings with author, title, and publication date.
• 5.6.W.3 Writes short informational texts that present key details and quotations from several sources logically.

Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies

• 5.7.R Analyzes the features and effectiveness of different multimodal content.
• 5.7.W Creates multimodal content that communicates ideas to an intended audience.

Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing

• 5.8.R Reads self-chosen texts on their own for different lengths of time, choosing genres they enjoy.
• 5.8.W Writes on their own in print, cursive, or typing, choosing modes and genres for the audience.