5th Grade ELA (Oregon Common Core)

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• ELA.5.RF.1 No new grade 5 expectation: ODE points to earlier grades for students who still need help with print concepts.
• ELA.5.RF.2 No new grade 5 expectation: ODE points to earlier grades for students who still need help with sound awareness.
• ELA.5.RF.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to read and spell words.
  • a. Combine knowledge of letter sounds, syllables and word parts to read unfamiliar long words.
• ELA.5.RF.4 Read grade-level text fluently, with accuracy, good pace and expression, to support understanding.
  • a. Read with purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read aloud accurately, at a suitable pace and with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or fix word reading, rereading when needed.

Reading Literature (RL)

• ELA.5.RL.1 Quote the text accurately when explaining what it says directly and what can be inferred.
• ELA.5.RL.2 Analyze a theme across poems, stories or plays, citing evidence, and summarize the text.
• ELA.5.RL.3 Compare characters, settings or events, using details to show how they interact.
• ELA.5.RL.4 Work out the meaning of words and phrases, including figurative language, and explain their effect.
• ELA.5.RL.5 Analyze and explain the overall structure of poems, stories and plays, such as linear or circular.
• ELA.5.RL.6 Describe how the narrator's or speaker's viewpoint colors the telling of events.
• ELA.5.RL.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements add to a text's meaning, tone or beauty.
• ELA.5.RL.9 Compare how stories in the same genre handle similar themes and topics.
• ELA.5.RL.10 Use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly, including for long words, to read and analyze complex literature.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• ELA.5.RI.1 Quote an informational text accurately when explaining what it says directly and what can be inferred.
• ELA.5.RI.2 Analyze how central ideas come through in a text, citing evidence, and summarize it.
• ELA.5.RI.3 Explain how people, events, ideas or concepts relate in historical, scientific or technical texts.
• ELA.5.RI.4 Work out the meaning of academic and subject words and analyze their effect on the text.
• ELA.5.RI.5 Compare how information is structured across two or more texts.
• ELA.5.RI.6 Analyze several accounts of one event or topic, noting where their points of view agree and differ.
• ELA.5.RI.7 Analyze information from several print, digital and non-print sources to answer a question or solve a problem.
• ELA.5.RI.8 Explain how an author's reasons and evidence back up particular points, matching each to the point it supports.
• ELA.5.RI.9 Combine information from several texts on one topic to speak or write about it knowledgeably.
• ELA.5.RI.10 Use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly, including for long words, to read and analyze complex informational texts.

Writing (W)

• ELA.5.W.1 Write opinion pieces that back a clear viewpoint with reasons and information in a logical order.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state the opinion and organize ideas logically.
  • b. Give reasons in a logical order, backed by facts and details.
  • c. Use suitable linking words to connect paragraphs.
  • d. Give an ending.
• ELA.5.W.2 Write informative or explanatory texts that examine a topic clearly and share information.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state a focus, group information logically and add formatting or visuals when useful.
  • b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, quotations or examples.
  • c. Use suitable joining words to connect ideas inside sentences.
  • d. Use suitable linking words to connect paragraphs.
  • e. Use precise language and subject vocabulary.
  • f. Give an ending.
• ELA.5.W.3 Write narratives with strong techniques, descriptive details and a clear order of events.
  • a. Set the scene, introduce a narrator or characters and order events in a linear, non-linear or circular way.
  • b. Use dialogue, description and pacing to develop events and how characters respond.
  • c. Use a range of joining and linking words to manage the order of events.
  • d. Use concrete words and sensory details to describe experiences precisely.
  • e. Give an ending that follows from the events.
• ELA.5.W.4 Produce clear, connected writing whose development and organization suit the task, purpose and audience.
• ELA.5.W.5 With support, develop and improve writing by planning, drafting, revising, editing and rewriting.
• ELA.5.W.6 With support, use digital tools, the internet and handwriting to produce, publish and work on writing with others.
• ELA.5.W.7 Complete short research projects using several sources to look at different sides of a topic.
• ELA.5.W.8 Summarize information from experience or sources, paraphrase it in notes and list the sources.
• ELA.5.W.9 Use evidence from literature or informational texts as support for analysis, reflection and research.
• ELA.5.W.10 Write regularly over short and long periods for a range of subject tasks, purposes and audiences.

Language (L)

• ELA.5.L.1 Use standard English grammar and usage correctly in writing and speech.
  • a. Explain what conjunctions, prepositions and interjections do in sentences.
  • b. Form and use perfect tenses.
  • c. Use verb tense to show time, order, state and condition.
  • d. Write complete sentences and fix unwanted shifts in tense.
  • e. Use paired (correlative) conjunctions.
  • f. Use pronouns in the correct case.
• ELA.5.L.2 Show control of capital letters, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Use punctuation to separate items in a list.
  • b. Put a comma after an introductory part of a sentence.
  • c. Use commas with yes and no, tag questions and when addressing someone directly.
  • d. Use underlining, quotation marks or italics for titles.
  • e. Use strategies and tools to find and fix spelling errors.
• ELA.5.L.3 Apply what they know about how English works whenever they write, speak, read or listen.
  • a. Lengthen, combine and shorten sentences for meaning, interest and style.
  • b. Compare varieties of English, such as dialects, registers and slang, in literature.
• ELA.5.L.4 Use strategies flexibly to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words.
  • a. Use context clues to work out meaning.
  • b. Use common Greek and Latin affixes and roots to work out meaning.
  • c. Use dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses and other tools to check pronunciation and meaning.
• ELA.5.L.5 Show understanding of figurative language, word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • a. Interpret similes and metaphors in context.
  • b. Show understanding of words by linking them with synonyms and antonyms.
• ELA.5.L.6 Learn and use correctly academic and subject words for grade 5, including signal words for contrast and addition.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• ELA.5.SL.1 Take part well in group discussions with varied partners, building on others' ideas and giving their own.
  • a. Come ready, using assigned reading and other knowledge.
  • b. Follow discussion rules and carry out assigned roles.
  • c. Ask and answer specific questions and add to others' remarks.
  • d. Review key ideas and draw conclusions from the discussion.
  • e. Judge how well the discussion worked.
• ELA.5.SL.2 Check understanding of read-aloud or media content by asking and answering questions and asking for clarification.
• ELA.5.SL.3 Summarize a speaker's points and explain how reasons and evidence back each claim.
• ELA.5.SL.4 Report on a topic or give an opinion in a logical order with relevant facts and details, speaking clearly.
• ELA.5.SL.5 Add media or visuals to presentations when they help develop the main ideas.
• ELA.5.SL.6 Speak loudly enough and share thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.