5th Grade -
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"What should my child know and be able to do at the end of 5th Grade?"
Importance of
Communication and Math Skills
No subjects in school are more important to a student’s
future success than reading, writing, and mathematics. Without these skills,
students will have a more difficult time learning in the next grade.
They must know how to use reading, writing, and math in all their school
subjects, including art, music, science, social studies, health, and physical
education. Our district has identified the most important for success in
the next grade.
This page describes what we want your child to learn in
reading, writing, and math by the end of the year. It may give you some
ideas about specific skills you would like to help your child practice.
As you will see, our expectations are high. There may be content, such
as geometry, that you would not have expected so early in your child’s
education. There may also be terms which are unfamiliar to you.
If there are parts you are unsure of, please ask your child’s teacher for more
information.
One of our goals as a school district is to have as many
children as possible reach these expectations – or learn even more – by the end
of each school year.
Communication Skills –
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By the end of 5th grade, a student should know the following:
Develop word knowledge and reading strategies (skills to
help understand what is read)
- Recognize that words have indirect
(connotative) as well as literal meanings.
- Determine word meaning from a
variety of word parts such as word origins, roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
- Adjust strategies, that is, change
pace, reread, ask self questions, or retell in own words, as appropriate for
type and difficulty of the printed material.
- Read longer articles and books with
ease and accuracy.
- Adjust rate of reading and attention
to detail based on the purpose and difficulty of the material being read.
Understand the meaning of what is read
- Question, summarize, and draw
conclusions from what is read.
- Support conclusions and opinions
with evidence and examples from the printed material.
- Recognize themes and compare basic
ideas or themes between books.
- Use headings, diagrams, charts, and
maps, to understand main ideas and locate information.
Build habits of a thoughtful reader
- Read independently on a daily basis.
- Read a variety of types of writing,
such as fiction, poetry, editorials, and electronic print.
- Begin to set goals and identify
strategies to improve reading.
Write clearly and effectively (These skills will prepare the
kindergartner for actual writing)
- Choose the focus and supporting
information based on the audience and purpose for writing.
- Choose ideas and supporting
information based on understanding of the audience and the purpose for writing.
- Organize the writing by time, space,
or importance.
- Create paragraphs that have a sense
of completeness; draw conclusions.
- Vary types and lengths of sentences
for interest and smoothness.
- Understand and apply commonly accepted
English grammar rules.
- Spell words appropriate for fifth
grade correctly.
- Understand and apply punctuation to
make reading clear and easy.
- Write neatly for others to read.
Use processes and habits of a thoughtful writer
- Choose the most effective order for
ideas and details.
- Choose the most effective order for
the ideas and details.
- Use technology tools that help with
the writing process.
- Revise to make the writing more
effective.
- Use resources such as a computer
spellchecker to proofread for accuracy.
- Share writing with others. \
- Maintain a journal of personal
writing, notes, observations, questions, ideas; set own writing improvement
goals.
Math Concepts and Skills
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By the end of 5th grade, a student should know the following:
Number Sense and Computation
- Understand the meaning of fractions,
and percents and use them to solve problems.
- Read, write, and understand meaning of
fractions, decimals, and percents.
- Mentally divide whole numbers into
familiar fractions (halves, thirds, fourths, sixths).
- Make a multiplication problem easier
by breaking it down , for example, 4 x 57 = 228 since
its four fifties, or 200, plus four sevens, or 28.
- Know multiplication facts through 12
x 12.
- Add and subtract decimals.
Measurement
- Measure attributes of objects
(length, area, volume, weight, time, temperature, and angles) with standard
units and tools.
- Understand and use formulas to find the
perimeter and area of rectangles.
- Make simple scale drawings and build
simple scale models.
Geometric Sense
- Identify and describe properties of
geometric figures such as angle, parallel, perpendicular, similar, and
congruent.
- Describe line (mirror) and
rotational (around a point) symmetry.
- Identify simple transformations
using combinations of slides, flips, and turns.
- Draw views of three-dimensional
block structures.
Probability and Statistics
- Organize data using tables and
choose an appropriate way to represent data clearly, such as a bar graph, line
plot, or circle graph.
- Compare and analyze data; draw
conclusions based on data.
- Understand fundamental ideas about
probability.
Algebraic Sense – (Patterns and Functions)
- Describe patterns seen and discover
the general rule of a simple sequence.