5th Grade ELA (Wisconsin Standards)

Reading (R)

• R.5.1 Use relevant details and evidence to explain what a text states or implies and to make inferences.
• R.5.2 Summarize texts in a range of genres to find a theme or central idea and show how details support it.
• R.5.3 Compare characters, settings and events, or explain how individuals, events or ideas interact, using details.
• R.5.4 Work out word and phrase meanings, including figurative language, and analyze how they affect meaning, tone and mood.
• R.5.5 Explain how chapters, scenes or stanzas build a whole work, and compare structures across informational texts.
• R.5.6 Explain how a narrator's point of view shapes events, and analyze several accounts of one event or topic.
• R.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements add to the meaning of texts.
• R.5.8 Explain how reasons and evidence support claims, identifying which evidence supports which claim.
• R.5.9 Judge the quality of texts and connect them to other texts, ideas, cultures, identities, eras and experiences.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.5.3 Know and use grade 5 phonics and word analysis to decode unfamiliar words.
• RF.5.4 Read grade 5 texts with enough accuracy and fluency to support understanding.

Writing (W)

• W.5.1 Write reflective, formal and creative pieces, together or separately, for purposes from everyday to high stakes (grade 5).
• W.5.2 Write in several modes – opinion or argument, informative and narrative – at grade 5 level.
• W.5.3 Write with control of organization, transitions, development, word choice and sentences suited to grade 5.
• W.5.4 Produce clear, coherent writing whose development, organization and style suit task, purpose and audience and are culturally sustaining.
• W.5.5 Produce clear writing organized for task and audience, respond to peers and strengthen it.
• W.5.6 With some support, publish writing with digital tools and learn printing, cursive or typing.
• W.5.7 Do short student-driven inquiry projects using several sources.
• W.5.8 Gather relevant information, summarize or paraphrase it in notes and list sources.
• W.5.9 Use evidence from literary or informational texts to back analysis, reflection and inquiry (grade 5).

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.5.1 Take an active part in varied group and partner discussions, adding to classmates' ideas and sharing own thinking (grade 5).
• SL.5.2 Summarize a text read aloud or information in different media.
• SL.5.3 Summarize a speaker's points and explain how reasons and evidence support each claim.
• SL.5.4 Report or give an opinion in a logical order with facts and details, speaking clearly.
• SL.5.5 Blend multimedia and visuals into presentations to develop main ideas.

Language (L)

• L.5.1 Understand how language works in different cultures and contexts and use this to understand and make effective choices (grade 5).
• L.5.2 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words using context, word parts, references and word-solving strategies (grade 5).
• L.5.3 Show understanding of figurative language, word relationships and shades of meaning (grade 5).
• L.5.4 Build vocabulary alone and with others, including cultural, academic and subject words, and use words suited to the situation (grade 5).
• L.5.5 Use standardized English grammar and usage when suitable, knowing when and where it fits (grade 5).
• L.5.6 Use standardized capitalization, punctuation and spelling in writing when suitable, knowing when it fits (grade 5).