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Language Arts - Elementary Curriculum English Language Arts Grade 5
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Core Standards of the Course

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for K-5 Reading

The K–5 standards on the following pages define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards.

Reading Standards for Literature

The following standards offer a focus for instruction each year and help ensure that students gain adequate exposure to a range of texts and tasks. Rigor is also infused through the requirement that students read increasingly complex texts through the grades. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.

Key Ideas and Details

Reading: Literature Standard 1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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Reading: Literature Standard 2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

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Reading: Literature Standard 3
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

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Craft and Structure

Reading: Literature Standard 4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

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Reading: Literature Standard 5
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

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Reading: Literature Standard 6
Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.

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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Reading: Literature Standard 7
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

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Reading: Literature Standard 8
(Not applicable to literature)


Reading: Literature Standard 9
Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Reading: Literature Standard 10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Continue to develop fluency when reading documents written in cursive.

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Reading Standards for Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

Reading: Informational Text Standard 1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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Reading: Informational Text Standard 2
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

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Reading: Informational Text Standard 3
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

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Craft and Structure

Reading: Informational Text Standard 4
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.

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Reading: Informational Text Standard 5
Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.

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Reading: Informational Text Standard 6
Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.

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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Reading: Informational Text Standard 7
Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.

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Reading: Informational Text Standard 8
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).

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Reading: Informational Text Standard 9
Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Reading: Informational Text Standard 10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Continue to develop fluency when reading documents written in cursive.

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Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

These standards are directed toward fostering students’ understanding and working knowledge of concepts of print, the alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system. These foundational skills are not an end in and of themselves; rather, they are necessary and important components of an effective, comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers with the capacity to comprehend texts across a range of types and disciplines. Instruction should be differentiated: good readers will need much less practice with these concepts than struggling readers will. The point is to teach students what they need to learn and not what they already know—to discern when particular children or activities warrant more or less attention.

Phonics and Word Recognition

Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

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Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

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Fluency

Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

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Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

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Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

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Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.


College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing

The K–5 standards below define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards for Writing.

Writing Standards

The following writing standards offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. Each year in their writing, students should demonstrate increasing sophistication in all aspects of language use, from vocabulary and syntax to the development and organization of ideas, and they should address increasingly demanding content and sources. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades. The expected growth in student writing ability is reflected both in the standards themselves and in the collection of annotated student writing samples in Appendix C.

Text Types and Purposes

Writing Standard 1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

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Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.

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Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.

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Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).

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Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.

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Writing Standard 2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

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Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

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Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.

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Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).

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Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

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Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.

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Writing Standard 3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

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Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

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Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

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Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.

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Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.

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Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.

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Production and Distribution of Writing

Writing Standard 4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)

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Writing Standard 5
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language Standards 1-3 up to and including grade 5.)

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Writing Standard 6
With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.

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Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Writing Standard 7
Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.

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Writing Standard 8
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.

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Writing Standard 9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

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Apply grade 5 Reading Standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or a drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., how characters interact]”).

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Apply grade 5 Reading Standards to informational texts (e.g., “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point[s]”).

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College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for K-5 Speaking and Listening

The K–5 standards below define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards for Speaking and Listening.

Speaking and Listening Standards

The following Speaking and Listening standards offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.

Comprehension and Collaboration

Speaking and Listening Standard 1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

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Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.

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Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles.

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Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others.

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Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.

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Speaking and Listening Standard 2
Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.


Speaking and Listening Standard 3
Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence.

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Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Speaking and Listening Standard 4
Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

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Speaking and Listening Standard 5
Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.


Speaking and Listening Standard 6
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation. (See grade 5 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.)

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College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for K-5 Language

The K–5 standards on the following pages define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards for Language.

Language Standards

The following Language standards offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades. Beginning in grade 3, skills and understandings that are particularly likely to require continued attention in higher grades as they are applied to increasingly sophisticated writing and speaking are marked with an asterisk (*). See the table on page 33 for a complete list and Appendix A for an example of how these skills develop in sophistication.

Conventions of Standard English

Language Standard 1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

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Maintain legible and fluent cursive writing.

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Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.

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Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb tenses.

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Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.

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Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*

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Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor).


Language Standard 2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

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Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*

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Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence.

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Use a comma to set off the words yes and no (e.g., Yes, thank you), to set off a tag question from the rest of the sentence (e.g., It’s true, isn’t it?), and to indicate direct address (e.g., Is that you, Steve?).

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Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works.

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Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.


Knowledge of Language

Language Standard 3
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

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Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.

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Compare and contrast the varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, or poems.

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Language Standard 4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

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Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

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Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).

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Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

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Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Language Standard 5
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

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Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.

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Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.

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Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.

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Language Standard 6
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).

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