Fifth Grade

Language Arts/English Standards

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development

1.2	Students can figure out the the meaning of new words by using word origins.
1.3	Students can explain common synonyms, antonyms, and homographs.
1.4	Students can figure out the meaning of complex words by using Greek and Latin roots and affixes.
1.5	Students can explain the symbolism of the figurative and metaphorical words that I read.
2.5	Students can tell the difference between facts, supported inferences, and opinion in what they read.

2.0 Reading Comprehension

2.3	Students can find main ideas by finding the evidence that supports those ideas.
2.4	Students can use evidence from the text and their own knowledge to make inferences, conclusions, or generalizations.

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

3.3	Students can contrast the differences between characters in a work of fiction and discuss how it affects the plot or theme.
3.4	Students can explain that theme refers to the meaning or moral of a selection and recognize themes in their writing.
3.5	Students can describe the use and effect of literary devices such as imagery, metaphor, and symbolism.
3.6	Students can explain the meaning of archetypal patterns and symbols that are in stories from around the world.

1.0 Writing Strategies

1.1	Students can write multiple-paragraph narratives that include: strong situations or plots, descriptive settings, and strong endings.
1.3	Students can locate relevant information in a text by using organization features.
1.6	Students edit and revise their writing by adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences.

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions

1.1	Students can identify and correctly use: prepositional phrases, appositives, and independent and dependent clauses.
1.2	Students can identify and correctly use verbs and modifiers that are often misused.
1.3	Students can use a colon to separate hours and minutes in time.
1.4	Students can use correct capitalization.

Mathematics Standards

Number Sense

1.2	Students interpret percents as a part of a hundred, find equivalent decimals, percents and fractions, and calculate a percent of a whole number.
1.4	Students can list prime factors of all numbers through 50 and write them as products using exponents when necessary.
1.5	Students can identify and place decimals, fractions, mixed numbers, positive and negative integers on a number line.
2.1	Students can calculate and check the reasonableness of their answers when they: add, subtract, multiply, and divide with decimals; add and subtract positive and negative integers.
2.2	Students are proficient at dividing, including division with decimals and multi-digit divisors.
2.3	Students solve simple and real world problems that involved adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers. They can put their answers in the simplest form.
2.5	Students can calculate and solve problems using multiplication and division of fractions.

Algebra

1.4	Students can find and graph ordered pairs in the four quadrants of a coordinate plane.
1.5	Students can solve and write equations involving linear functions with integer values and then graph the resulting ordered pair.

Measurement/Geometry

1.1	Students know the area of a rectangle therefore they can find the formula for the area of a triangle and parallelogram.
1.2	Students can construct a cube and rectangular box from two-dimensional patterns and use these patterns to figure out the surface area of these objects.
1.3	Students use the appropriate units in common measuring systems to figure out the volume of rectangular solids.
2.1	Students can identify angles, perpendicular & parallel lines, rectangles, and triangles.
2.2	Students know that the sum of the angles of any triangle is 180 degrees and the sum of the angles of any quadrilateral is 360 degrees. They use this information to solve problems.