5th grade

5 th grade Parent Curriculum Overview
Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter
Reading Setting, characters, and
conflict in plot
Author’s use of dialogue
and description
Setting, characters, and conflict
in plot
Author’s use of dialogue and
description
Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus:
Paragraphs, topic sentences,
concluding sentences, glossary,
Quarters 1, 2, and 3 standards
plus:
Setting, characters, and
Author’s purpose Author’s purpose
charts, maps, diagrams, captions, conflict in plot
Judgments and inferences Judgments and inferences illustrations, chronological Author’s use of dialogue and
Connections between text
to student’s life, text to the
Connections between text to
student’s life, text to the world,
order, logical order, cause and
effect, classification schemes.
description
Author’s purpose
world, and text to other texts and text to other texts
Main ideas, supporting ideas, Judgments and inferences
Reading from a variety of
genres
Reading from a variety of
genres
and supporting details
Connections between text to
Connections between text to
student’s life, text to the world,
Increasing fluency and
expression
Increasing fluency and
expression
student’s life, text to the world,
and text to other texts
Relating prior knowledge and
and text to other texts
Reading from a variety of
genres
experience to the text
Increasing fluency and
Pronunciations, meanings,
alternate word choices, and parts
of speech using dictionaries and
thesauruses
Meaning of common prefixes,
common idioms, and figurative
expression
phrases
August, 2011

Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter
Writing and
Conventions
Narrative writing: Informational writing:
Persuasive writing :
Response to Literature
Establishing point of view Establishing context, voice, and Establishing context, voice, writing:
Establishing plot, setting,
conflict and important events
interest
Developing a controlling idea
and reader interest.
Stating a clear position
Establishing context, voice,
and interest.
Creating an organizing Creating an organizing structure Supporting a position with Developing a controlling idea.
structure
Including facts and details relevant evidence
Creating an organizing
Using sensory details to Excluding inappropriate details Creating an organized paper structure.
develop plot
and information
Addressing reader concerns Including facts and details.
and characters
Excluding unimportant
details
Providing a sense of closure Excluding extra and
inappropriate details
Providing a sense of closure
Excluding inappropriate
details and information
Providing a sense of closure
Developing characters
through actions,
motivation and dialogue Conventions
Improving word choice
Conventions:
Conventions
Providing sense of closure
to writing
Using capital letters and
ending punctuation
Quarter 1 standards plus:
Nouns, verbs, adjectives,
pronouns, prepositions,
All 8 parts of speech (nouns,
pronouns, verbs, adjectives,
adverbs, conjunctions,
prepositions, interjections)
Quarter 1, 2 & 3 Standards
plus:
All 8 parts of speech
Conventions
Nouns, verbs, adjectives,
adverbs
Types of sentences
Contractions, plural
nouns
Homophones
conjunctions, and interjections
Verb phrases and verb tenses
Mechanics (apostrophes,
paragraph indentions, quotation
marks)
Different functions of words
Verb phrases and verb tenses
Sentence structure by type
(declarative, interrogative,
imperative, exclamatory) and
complexity (simple, compound,
complex, compound-complex)
Correct sentence structure
(No sentence fragments
or run-ons),
Standard English spelling
(commonly used homophones)
Correct mechanics
(apostrophes, quotation marks,
comma use in compound
sentences, paragraph indentions)
Verb phrases and verb tenses.
Correct mechanics
(apostrophes, paragraph
indentions, quotation marks).
Sentence variety
August, 2011

5 th grade Parent Curriculum Overview
Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter
Math
Quarter 1 Standards plus: Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus:
Composite, prime, even, odd
numbers
Factors and multiples Estimation of products and Estimation of area
Place value from thousandths quotients
Area of a parallelogram, triangle,
circle, and polygon
to hundred-millions
Representation of division of
Circumference of a circle
Graphs (bar graphs, pie whole numbers as a fraction.
Relationship of
graphs, line graphs, line plots) Simplifying fractions
circumference of a circle to its
Congruent and similar shapes Equivalent fractions
diameter
Corresponding angles Model multiplication and Perimeter and circumference
Multiplication facts 0-12 division of common fractions Volume of a cube, rectangular
Multiplication (1-digit by 2- Finding common denominators prism, and a simple geometric solid
or 3-digit, 2-digit by 2-digit, Adding and subtracting
Units in computing volume
and decimal by whole number) fractions and mixed numbers with Units of capacity
unlike denominators
Comparison of measurement
units
Solves equations for unknown
quantities
Understand algebraic expressions
Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter
Science
Vertebrate and
invertebrate animals
Classification of vertebrates
(fish, amphibian,
mammal, reptile, bird)
Classification of
invertebrates (protozoa,
annelids, mollusks, arthropods,
echinoderms)
Classification of plants
(vascular, nonvascular)
Cells and their structure
Microorganisms
Quarter 1 Standards plus:
Characteristics of learned
behaviors and inherited traits
Genetics
Constructive and destructive
processes
Role of technology and
human intervention in the control
of destructive processes
Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus:
How parts of objects influence
one another
Safety
Making simple mechanical
constructions and repairing things
Represent corresponding features
of objects (diagrams and sketches)
Science involves many different
kinds of work and people
Forms of scientific investigations
Difference between physical and
chemical changes
Static electricity
Electrical circuits
Insulators or conductors of
electricity
Magnets
Review all standards taught in
quarters 1, 2 and 3.
Jumpstart to 6th grade (after
CRCT).
Review all standards taught in
quarters 1, 2, and 3
Jumpstart to 6th grade (after
CRCT)
August, 2011

Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter
Social
Quarter 1 Standards plus: Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus: Quarter 1, 2 & 3 Standards
Studies
plus:
Civil War
States’ rights and slavery
Abraham Lincoln, Robert
E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant,
Jefferson Davis and Thomas
Jackson
Reconstruction
Historical tools (artifacts,
documents, interviews and
timelines)
America at the turn of the
century
U.S. involvement in World War I
and post World War I America
Great Depression and New Deal
Basic economic concepts
Important places in the U.S.
Citizen’s rights under the U.S.
Constitution
Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution
The “Iron Curtain.”
U.S. efforts to stop communism
(Berlin airlift, the Korean War,
and NATO).
Joseph McCarthy and Nikita
Khrushchev
Cuban Missile Crisis and the
Vietnam War.
Civil Rights movement
Assassinations of President
John F. Kennedy, and
Martin Luther King Jr.
Technologies of television and
space exploration
U. S. involvement in world
events(the Middle East, the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the
Persian Gulf War, and the War
on Terrorism)
Development of the personal
computer and the Internet
Physical features in U.S.
(Grand Canyon, Salton Sea,
Great Salt Lake, and Mojave
Desert)
Man-made places (Chisholm
Trail; Pittsburgh, PA;
Gettysburg, PA; Kitty Hawk,
NC; Pearl Harbor, HI; and
Montgomery, AL)
August, 2011