5th Grade ELA Skills
(7/10)
Fluency Practice
*Read aloud fluently with accuracy, comprehension, appropriate pace/rate; with expression/intonation; with attention to punctuation and appropriate phrasing.
Vocabulary & Spelling
Word Learning Strategies
*Use knowledge of word structure to figure out meanings of words
*Use context clues for meaning of unfamiliar words, multiple meaning words,
homonyms, homographs
Extend concepts and word knowledge
*antonyms and synonyms *homographs, homonyms, and homophones
*multiple meaning words *shortened forms: abbreviations, acronyms, clipped words
Text Comprehension
Comprehension & Higher Order Thinking Strategies & Skills *author’s purpose *generalize *cause and effect
*graphic sources *compare and contrast
*main ideas and supporting detail *draw conclusions
*sequence of events *looking through text for clues
* fact & opinion
Literary Elements and Story Structure
*character * plot and plot structure
Grammar and Usage in Speaking and Writing Sentences
*sentence type (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative)
*sentence structure (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
*sentence parts (subjects/predicates: complete, simple, compound; phrases; clauses
*parts of speech (nouns, verbs and verb tenses, adjectives, adverbs, antecedents, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections)
Usage
Subject-verb agreement
*pronoun agreements/referents *misplaced modifiers
Mechanics in Writing
*Capitalization (first word in sentence, proper nouns and adjectives, pronouns, I, etc.)
*Punctuation (apostrophe, comma, period, quest. mark, exclamation point, quotation marks)
Understand and Use Reference Sources
*dictionary/glossary/thesaurus/index/library