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National PTA: Fifth Grade Parents' Guide to Student Success
LANGUAGE ARTS
READING: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency, Literature studies, Novel studies, genre, Harcourt Anthologies
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Figurative language
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Context clues
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Identify author’s main idea and purpose
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Make text to text connections
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Summarize ideas
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Ask and respond to open ended questions
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Theme, plot, characters, setting
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Relate to prior knowledge, experience, and real world information
WRITING:
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Multi paragraph compositions that include an introduction, support, and
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Use transitional words and phrases to connect ideas
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Using a variety of sentence structures
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Establish and maintain focus, organization, elaboration, support, and integration within paragraphs, demonstrating coherence
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Compose informational (expository), narrative, persuasive, and descriptive
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Design a research paper
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Proofread, revise and edit for content and conventions
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Use available technology to design, produce, and present compositions
SPELLING:
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Proofread and revise accordingly
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Correctly spell appropriate high frequency words
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Capitalization accuracy
SPEAKING:
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Present oral reports using correct language, nonverbal expressions and organizational format
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Use speaking skills to participate in discussions
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Use verbal and nonverbal skills and strategies to maintain communication and resolve conflict
LISTENING:
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Demonstrate the listening process by responding both 1) orally and 2) in writing in formal and informal situations
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Ask questions and respond to questions related to oral presentations and messages in small and large groups
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Restate and carry out a variety of oral instructions
MATH
Everyday Mathematics content strands include:
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Operations and Computation
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Numeration
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Patterns, Functions & Algebra
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Data and Chance
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Measurement and Reference Frames
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Geometry
SOCIAL STUDIES
Students in fifth grade will be exposed to a chronological survey of United States history from earliest settlement to the Civil War.
UNITS OF STUDY
· Unit 1: Americans and Our Environment
· Unit 2: Culture West and East
· Unit 3: Exploration
· Unit 4: Colonization and Conflict
· Unit 5: Independence and New Government
· Unit 6: Expansion and Change
· Unit 7: Civil War and Reconstruction
Content: participate in hands-on activities in the following areas:
- Astronomy: planetarium
- Earth Science: weather
- Health: digestion and drug education
- Life Science: small life with a microscope
- Physical Science: electricity and magnetism
- Skills:
- predict
- observe
- collect and record data
- interpret
- classify
- raw conclusions
- formulate hypothesis and models
- experiment
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