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Fifth Grade students will work on these skills and concepts READING
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| Understand and use vocabulary words in story selections |
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Use context clues to determine word meaning |
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Use the glossary, index, preface, and bibliography to find information |
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Understand the difference between cause and effect, important and unimportant, and generalizations |
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Understand how to compare and contrast |
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Understand how to draw inferences from a written passage |
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Distinguish between fact and non-fact |
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Understand author’s purpose and point of view |
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Distinguish main ideas from supporting details |
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Understand and use analogies |
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List story events in sequential order |
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Understand how to paraphrase, make predictions, and summarize |
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Use root words, prefixes and suffixes |
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Use graphic aids (charts, graphs, tables, and time lines) |
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Understand the importance of following directions |
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Practice test-taking strategies |
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Understand plot, characters, setting, conflict, and resolution |
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Understand types of figurative language: metaphor, simile, and idiom |
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Use reference sources: encyclopedia index, dictionary, almanac, phone book, Reader’s Guide, and library card catalog |
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Participate in the Accelerated Reader program |
LANGUAGE ARTS
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Demonstrate skills in the writing process: |
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prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing |
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Practice and perfect various forms of writing: expository, narrative, and persuasive |
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Share information through written and oral reports |
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Differentiate the four types of sentences |
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Recognize simple, compound, and complex sentence structure: simple subject, compound subject, simple predicate, and compound predicate |
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Recognize the parts of sentences: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, direct objects, predicate nouns, predicate adjectives, and prepositional phrases |
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Correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences |
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Demonstrate proper language mechanics: capitalization and punctuation |
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Recognize the parts of a letter and write a business or friendly letter |
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Construct a simple outline using topic and sub-topics |
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Reinforce word structure: plurals, prefixes, suffixes, compound words, synonyms, and antonyms |
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Master frequently misspelled words |
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Reinforce understanding of words |
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Enrich the learning of above-average students with Challenge words |
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Master sounds and symbol patterns on determining words |
TECHNOLOGY
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Recognize keys and enter data |
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Demonstrate an ability to use the local network |
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Can access files and information for Accelerated reader and Star testing |
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Demonstrate basic word processing skills, including spell check |
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Access and use the Internet including subject search, and topic research |
MATH
NUMBER SENSE AND NUMERATION
Identify place value
Compare and order numbers through nine digits
Round numbers through five digits
Problem-solve using patterns
Recognize negative numbers
Solve word problems using two or more steps
Problem solve using too much or too little information
ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF WHOLE NUMBERS
Add and subtract whole numbers
Estimate sums and differences of numbers
Make change with money
MEASUREMENT AND GEOMETRY
Convert units of length, weight, mass, and liquid
between the U.S. customary and metric systems
Add and subtract U.S. customary units of length
Problem-solve using measurement and elapsed time
Identify, name, and classify points, lines, planes, and angles
Identify and classify polygons
Find the perimeter of a geometric figure
Locate coordinate points on a graph
Identify congruent and similar figures and lines of symmetry
Find the area and volume of a rectangle or square
Identify rectangular prisms, cubes, pyramids, spheres, cones, and cylinders
DECIMALS
Read and write decimals through thousandths
Compare and order decimals
Round, add and subtract decimals
Multiply decimals by decimals and by whole numbers
Divide decimals by decimals and by whole numbers
RATIOS AND PERCENT
Write ratios and equal ratios
Understand ratio is a relationship between two numbers
Find the percentage for a given situation
Write percent as a fraction and decimal
Convert percent to fractions (10%,25%,50%) and vice-versa
PROBABILITY AND CHANCE
Find the probability or chance of an event
SCIENCE
LIFE SCIENCE
ASTRONOMY
THE HUMAN BODY
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Recognize the body organization of cells |
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Identify the body systems |
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Understand how bones and muscles move and support the body and how to keep those systems healthy |
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Recognize the importance of exercise and nutrition in good physical and mental development |
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Identify product labeling and the importance of nutritional information |
ECOLOGY
WEATHER
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Understand weather generally moves from west to east across the United States |
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Identify symbols on a weather map and understand what they mean |
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Predict possible weather based on a series of daily weather maps |
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Know the difference between climate and weather |
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Understand legend, symbols, scale, direction, coordinates, latitude, longitude, contour lines, elevation tints and special-purpose maps |
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Understand early exploration and settlement of North America |
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Memorize the Preamble of the U. S. constitution |
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Understand the three branches of our government, separation and balance of powers |
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Understand the westward movement and the Louisiana Purchase |
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Understand immigration in relation to the |
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Industrial Revolution |
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Understand the Civil War, First World War, |
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Second World War and their causes and outcomes |
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Identify the necessary aspects of personal, oral, eye, ear, skin, hair and nail health |
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Recognize the stages of life from cell to systems, bones, and muscles, heart and lungs, digestive and excretory, nervous and endocrine systems and how each system works and what they control |
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Recognize emotional and intellectual health and how to promote them |
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Understand how to foster a healthy family and social life |
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Apply guidelines to establish a pattern of good nutrition and healthy living |
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Understand food labeling |
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Understand the importance of physical activity and fitness to improve the quality of life |
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Recognize the importance of disease prevention and control with a focus on communicable diseases and how they can be prevented or controlled |
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Know the difference between legal and illegal drugs |
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Recognize the negative effects of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs on humans |
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Know types of narcotics, hallucinogens, and other drugs and their long-term effects |
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Participate in activities to improve physical fitness |
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Demonstrate good attitude, endurance, and coordination |
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Understand good sportsmanship |
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Demonstrate a variety of strategies to succeed in sports |
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Work cooperatively with group or partner to reach a goal shared by all involved |
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Use safe practices when doing activities |
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Participate in activities to improve physical fitness |
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Show an understanding of the concepts of skips, steps, and simple scale patterns |
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Demonstrate aural recognition of major and minor scales |
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Understand I, IV, and V chords by playing chordal instruments |
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Recognize orchestral families and individual instruments by sight and sound |
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Understand dynamics and notation |
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Explore music of various cultures and times (Some students will continue string orchestra instruction. Some students will begin formal band instruction at this grade level.) |
Read For 20
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Read for Life