5th Grade Reading Standards
Quarter 1: EL Module 1: Study of Human Rights
Text focus: Universal Declaration of Human Rights & Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
- STEM Project Based Learning Focus: Design - Problem/Solution
- Students will quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says and when drawing inferences from the text.
- Students will determine the meaning of words and phrases in text, including figurative language.
- Students will focus on how characters respond to challenges or how a speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.
- Students will summarize text..
- Students will compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama.
- Students will continue to develop accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
Quarter 2: EL Module 2: Biodiveristy in the Rainforest
Text focus: The Most Beautiful Roof in the World by Kathryn Lasky
- STEM Project Based Learning Focus: Inquiry - Question/Answer
- Students will quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says and when drawing inferences from the text.
- Students will compare/contrast the overall structure of informational text (chronological order, sequential order, comparison, cause/effect, description, problem/solution).
- Students will use and integrate from a variety of text resources to write about a subject.
- Students will analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting similarities and differences.
- Students will explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support points in a text.
- Students will learn subject specific vocabulary.
- Students will continue to develop accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
Quarter 3: EL Module 3: Athlete Leaders of Social Change
Text Focus: Promises to Keep by Sharon Robinson
- Stem Project Based Learning: Debate - Issue/Position
- Students will determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem.
- Students will focus on how characters respond to challenges or how a speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.
- Students will summarize text..
- Students will explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of the text.
- Students will determine how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
- Students will compare/contrast stories within the same genre.
- Quarter 4: El Module 4: The Impact of Natural Disasters
- STEM Project Based Learning Focus: Expression - Perspective/Performance
- Read Aloud: The Almost True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
- Students draw and analyze multiple accounts of the same topic, noting similarities and differences.
- Students will describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
- Students will compare/contrast stories within the same genre.
- Students will continue to develop accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
- Students will review past reading objectives from all quarters.