Grade 5 ELA Alabama standards Standards

Writing

Comprehension

Vocabulary

Fluency

Phonics

Literacy Foundations 4-5

Recurring Standards 4-5

Utilize active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings, following agreed-upon rules for participation.

Use context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar spoken or written words.

Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically when researching and writing, both individually and collaboratively.

Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres.

Identify and explain literary devices in prose and poetry.

Assess the formality of occasions in order to speak or write using appropriate language and tone.

Apply phonics and word analysis skills to encode and decode words in grade-level texts.

Respond directly to specific information shared by others in classroom discussion, using facts to support the ideas being discussed.

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

Acquire and use grade-level vocabulary, clarifying the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases in text, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Interpret the meaning of words, phrases, and patterns as they are used in texts, including domain-specific and academic vocabulary and figurative language.

Locate similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and idioms and interpret their meanings in context.

Explain the meanings of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.

Use the relationships between synonyms, antonyms, and homographs to increase understanding of word meanings.

Explain how an author's vocabulary and style influence the tone and mood of a text and support his/her purpose for writing.

Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meanings of words.

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.

Write using grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases accurately, including those that signal contrasting ideas, additional information, and other logical relationships.

Use grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases during presentations and discussion.

Demonstrate comprehension of varied literary and informational texts by utilizing its content when discussing or writing in response to the text.

Demonstrate comprehension of text by asking and responding to questions about literary elements used in the text.

Explain the relationships among events, people, or concepts in informational texts, supported by textual evidence.

Interpret how authors use literary elements throughout a text, including character, setting, conflict, dialogue, and point of view.

Use combined knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, appropriate blending, syllabication patterns, morphology, and word attack skills to read unfamiliar multisyllabic, grade-level words accurately in context and in isolation.

Explain how the author's use of character types throughout a narrative helps drive its plot.

Compare and contrast characters, points of view, or events in two or more literary texts.

Determine the implied and/or explicit main idea in literary and informational texts.

Determine and analyze themes of various culturally-diverse literary texts, supporting analysis with textual evidence.

Analyze common themes of diverse texts with support from textual evidence.

Summarize a story or drama, describing how the plot unfolds and how characters respond to challenges or change their thoughts and actions and citing textual evidence.

Determine and evaluate the effectiveness of digital and print text features and structures, including comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and cause and effect.

Identify various text features used in diverse forms of text.

Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in multiple texts.

Determine credibility and appropriateness of a research source by distinguishing between fact and the author's opinion in informational text.

Analyze how two or more texts address similar topics in diverse media and formats, including graphics, live and/or recorded performances, and written works.

Explain how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the overall meaning and tone of a text.

Compare and contrast the approaches to theme in several stories within a genre.

Locate information quickly within a text and apply information from multiple sources to analysis of the topics.

Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

Compare the approaches of several authors of articles about the same or similar topics.

Review the key ideas expressed in a text and draw conclusions, using facts to support them.

Use audio and/or visual sources of information to obtain the answer to a question.

Summarize in writing a variety of texts, stating their implied and/or explicit main ideas.

Use textual evidence to support summarization.

Cite appropriately when summarizing.

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Quote literary and informational texts accurately to support conclusions and inferences drawn from them.

Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to enhance the development of main ideas or themes when appropriate.

Respond in writing to literature and informational text, including stories, dramas, poetry, and cross-curricular texts, independently and with grade-level proficiency.

Write fluently and legibly in cursive, using correctly formed letters with appropriate spacing and placing text elements correctly on the page.

Write personal or fictional narratives incorporating literary elements (characters, plot, setting, conflict), dialogue, strong voice, and clear event sequences.

Write informative or explanatory texts using multiple sources to examine a topic, conveying ideas and information clearly and incorporating a strong organizational structure, relevant details, and elaboration.

Write an argument to persuade the reader to take an action or adopt a position, stating a claim, supporting the claim with relevant evidence from sources, using connectives to link ideas, and presenting a strong conclusion.

Write about research findings independently over short and/or extended periods of time.

Gather information on a topic or question, and share the results through various modes of writing, including projects and presentations.

Locate information in print and digital sources.

Summarize, quote, and paraphrase information in notes and finished work, providing a list of sources.

Integrate information from several texts on the same topic into presentations of research.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.

Evaluate the usage of pronouns for the proper case.

Identify inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.

Use varied pronouns and their antecedents correctly in composing and revising writing.

Use subject-verb agreement correctly when composing and revising writing.

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

Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense, including subject-verb agreement.

Use perfect verb tenses to compose and revise writing.

Use correlative conjunctions correctly when composing and revising writing.

Write familiar and unfamiliar multisyllabic, grade-level appropriate words accurately in context and in isolation.

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

Use commas to separate items in a series, separate introductory elements from the rest of a sentence, set off tag questions, and indicate direct address.

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

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

Write using grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases accurately, including those that signal contrasting ideas, additional information, and other logical relationships.

Consult print and digital reference materials to find the pronunciation and to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

Demonstrate fluency when independently reading, writing, and speaking in response to grade-level literary and informational text, including stories, dramas, poetry, and cross-curricular texts.

Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate prosody or expression, purpose, and understanding, self-correcting and rereading as necessary.

Orally present information and original ideas clearly.

Express ideas clearly and effectively to diverse partners or groups.

Pose and respond to explicit questions in ways that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others.

Verbally summarize information read aloud or presented in diverse media and formats.

Report orally on a topic or text, sequencing ideas logically and supporting main ideas with appropriate facts and relevant details.

Speak clearly at an understandable rate.

Writing

Comprehension

Vocabulary

Fluency

Phonics

Apply phonics skills to decode words.

Identify academic and unit/lessonspecific words (vocabulary).

Identify the meaning of figurative language (i.e., simile, metaphor, idioms).

Identify synonyms (same or similar) and antonyms (opposite or different) (e.g., happy/glad, hot/cold).

Use knowledge of prefixes to identify the meaning of a word (i.e., re-, un-, pre-).

Demonstrate understanding of varied texts while actively engaged in shared reading.

Identify a story element in a literary text (i.e., events, characters, setting, theme).

Identify a conflict (i.e., problem and its solution) in a story.

Use letter-sound knowledge to read common sight words.

Identify and compare characters in two or more literary texts.

Identify the main idea of a literary text.

Identify the main idea of an informational text.

Identify common themes of diverse texts.

Summarize a story.

Identify whether information is a fact or an opinion in an informational text.

Identify key points from an informational text.

Identify differences in articles written by different authors on same or similar topics.

Answer who, what, when, and where questions when listening to a presentation.

Identify the meaning of simple multiple-meaning words (e.g., bat, fly, bark, can, sink, star, jam) as used in a sentence.

Compose a summary that conveys understanding of a literary or an informational text.

Compose narratives by introducing a narrator or characters, organizing events in sequence, and providing an ending related to the event sequence.

Compose informative or explanatory text by stating a topic, providing facts or details, and providing an appropriate conclusion related to the topic.

Compose an argumentative text by stating a topic, providing reasons that support the argument, and providing an appropriate conclusion related to the topic.

Identify the correct verb tense that completes a sentence.

Identify the correct conjunction that completes a sentence (i.e., and, or, but).

Identify a sentence using correct capitalization.

Identify the correct use of commas in a series.

Use a dictionary or digital reference tool to find the meaning of a word.

Demonstrate fluency when reading simple literary text and simple informational text.

Write routinely for a variety of tasks and/or purposes.