5th grade
5th grade
5th grade
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5 th <strong>grade</strong> Parent Curriculum Overview<br />
Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter<br />
Reading Setting, characters, and<br />
conflict in plot<br />
Author’s use of dialogue<br />
and description<br />
Setting, characters, and conflict<br />
in plot<br />
Author’s use of dialogue and<br />
description<br />
Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus:<br />
Paragraphs, topic sentences,<br />
concluding sentences, glossary,<br />
Quarters 1, 2, and 3 standards<br />
plus:<br />
Setting, characters, and<br />
Author’s purpose Author’s purpose<br />
charts, maps, diagrams, captions, conflict in plot<br />
Judgments and inferences Judgments and inferences illustrations, chronological Author’s use of dialogue and<br />
Connections between text<br />
to student’s life, text to the<br />
Connections between text to<br />
student’s life, text to the world,<br />
order, logical order, cause and<br />
effect, classification schemes.<br />
description<br />
Author’s purpose<br />
world, and text to other texts and text to other texts<br />
Main ideas, supporting ideas, Judgments and inferences<br />
Reading from a variety of<br />
genres<br />
Reading from a variety of<br />
genres<br />
and supporting details<br />
Connections between text to<br />
Connections between text to<br />
student’s life, text to the world,<br />
Increasing fluency and<br />
expression<br />
Increasing fluency and<br />
expression<br />
student’s life, text to the world,<br />
and text to other texts<br />
Relating prior knowledge and<br />
and text to other texts<br />
Reading from a variety of<br />
genres<br />
experience to the text<br />
Increasing fluency and<br />
Pronunciations, meanings,<br />
alternate word choices, and parts<br />
of speech using dictionaries and<br />
thesauruses<br />
Meaning of common prefixes,<br />
common idioms, and figurative<br />
expression<br />
phrases<br />
August, 2011
Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter<br />
Writing and<br />
Conventions<br />
Narrative writing: Informational writing:<br />
Persuasive writing :<br />
Response to Literature<br />
Establishing point of view Establishing context, voice, and Establishing context, voice, writing:<br />
Establishing plot, setting,<br />
conflict and important events<br />
interest<br />
Developing a controlling idea<br />
and reader interest.<br />
Stating a clear position<br />
Establishing context, voice,<br />
and interest.<br />
Creating an organizing Creating an organizing structure Supporting a position with Developing a controlling idea.<br />
structure<br />
Including facts and details relevant evidence<br />
Creating an organizing<br />
Using sensory details to Excluding inappropriate details Creating an organized paper structure.<br />
develop plot<br />
and information<br />
Addressing reader concerns Including facts and details.<br />
and characters<br />
Excluding unimportant<br />
details<br />
Providing a sense of closure Excluding extra and<br />
inappropriate details<br />
Providing a sense of closure<br />
Excluding inappropriate<br />
details and information<br />
Providing a sense of closure<br />
Developing characters<br />
through actions,<br />
motivation and dialogue Conventions<br />
Improving word choice<br />
Conventions:<br />
Conventions<br />
Providing sense of closure<br />
to writing<br />
Using capital letters and<br />
ending punctuation<br />
Quarter 1 standards plus:<br />
Nouns, verbs, adjectives,<br />
pronouns, prepositions,<br />
All 8 parts of speech (nouns,<br />
pronouns, verbs, adjectives,<br />
adverbs, conjunctions,<br />
prepositions, interjections)<br />
Quarter 1, 2 & 3 Standards<br />
plus:<br />
All 8 parts of speech<br />
Conventions<br />
Nouns, verbs, adjectives,<br />
adverbs<br />
Types of sentences<br />
Contractions, plural<br />
nouns<br />
Homophones<br />
conjunctions, and interjections<br />
Verb phrases and verb tenses<br />
Mechanics (apostrophes,<br />
paragraph indentions, quotation<br />
marks)<br />
Different functions of words<br />
Verb phrases and verb tenses<br />
Sentence structure by type<br />
(declarative, interrogative,<br />
imperative, exclamatory) and<br />
complexity (simple, compound,<br />
complex, compound-complex)<br />
Correct sentence structure<br />
(No sentence fragments<br />
or run-ons),<br />
Standard English spelling<br />
(commonly used homophones)<br />
Correct mechanics<br />
(apostrophes, quotation marks,<br />
comma use in compound<br />
sentences, paragraph indentions)<br />
Verb phrases and verb tenses.<br />
Correct mechanics<br />
(apostrophes, paragraph<br />
indentions, quotation marks).<br />
Sentence variety<br />
August, 2011
5 th <strong>grade</strong> Parent Curriculum Overview<br />
Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter<br />
Math<br />
Quarter 1 Standards plus: Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus:<br />
Composite, prime, even, odd<br />
numbers<br />
Factors and multiples Estimation of products and Estimation of area<br />
Place value from thousandths quotients<br />
Area of a parallelogram, triangle,<br />
circle, and polygon<br />
to hundred-millions<br />
Representation of division of<br />
Circumference of a circle<br />
Graphs (bar graphs, pie whole numbers as a fraction.<br />
Relationship of<br />
graphs, line graphs, line plots) Simplifying fractions<br />
circumference of a circle to its<br />
Congruent and similar shapes Equivalent fractions<br />
diameter<br />
Corresponding angles Model multiplication and Perimeter and circumference<br />
Multiplication facts 0-12 division of common fractions Volume of a cube, rectangular<br />
Multiplication (1-digit by 2- Finding common denominators prism, and a simple geometric solid<br />
or 3-digit, 2-digit by 2-digit, Adding and subtracting<br />
Units in computing volume<br />
and decimal by whole number) fractions and mixed numbers with Units of capacity<br />
unlike denominators<br />
Comparison of measurement<br />
units<br />
Solves equations for unknown<br />
quantities<br />
Understand algebraic expressions<br />
Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter<br />
Science<br />
Vertebrate and<br />
invertebrate animals<br />
Classification of vertebrates<br />
(fish, amphibian,<br />
mammal, reptile, bird)<br />
Classification of<br />
invertebrates (protozoa,<br />
annelids, mollusks, arthropods,<br />
echinoderms)<br />
Classification of plants<br />
(vascular, nonvascular)<br />
Cells and their structure<br />
Microorganisms<br />
Quarter 1 Standards plus:<br />
Characteristics of learned<br />
behaviors and inherited traits<br />
Genetics<br />
Constructive and destructive<br />
processes<br />
Role of technology and<br />
human intervention in the control<br />
of destructive processes<br />
Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus:<br />
How parts of objects influence<br />
one another<br />
Safety<br />
Making simple mechanical<br />
constructions and repairing things<br />
Represent corresponding features<br />
of objects (diagrams and sketches)<br />
Science involves many different<br />
kinds of work and people<br />
Forms of scientific investigations<br />
Difference between physical and<br />
chemical changes<br />
Static electricity<br />
Electrical circuits<br />
Insulators or conductors of<br />
electricity<br />
Magnets<br />
Review all standards taught in<br />
quarters 1, 2 and 3.<br />
Jumpstart to 6th <strong>grade</strong> (after<br />
CRCT).<br />
Review all standards taught in<br />
quarters 1, 2, and 3<br />
Jumpstart to 6th <strong>grade</strong> (after<br />
CRCT)<br />
August, 2011
Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter<br />
Social<br />
Quarter 1 Standards plus: Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus: Quarter 1, 2 & 3 Standards<br />
Studies<br />
plus:<br />
Civil War<br />
States’ rights and slavery<br />
Abraham Lincoln, Robert<br />
E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant,<br />
Jefferson Davis and Thomas<br />
Jackson<br />
Reconstruction<br />
Historical tools (artifacts,<br />
documents, interviews and<br />
timelines)<br />
America at the turn of the<br />
century<br />
U.S. involvement in World War I<br />
and post World War I America<br />
Great Depression and New Deal<br />
Basic economic concepts<br />
Important places in the U.S.<br />
Citizen’s rights under the U.S.<br />
Constitution<br />
Amendments to the U.S.<br />
Constitution<br />
The “Iron Curtain.”<br />
U.S. efforts to stop communism<br />
(Berlin airlift, the Korean War,<br />
and NATO).<br />
Joseph McCarthy and Nikita<br />
Khrushchev<br />
Cuban Missile Crisis and the<br />
Vietnam War.<br />
Civil Rights movement<br />
Assassinations of President<br />
John F. Kennedy, and<br />
Martin Luther King Jr.<br />
Technologies of television and<br />
space exploration<br />
U. S. involvement in world<br />
events(the Middle East, the<br />
collapse of the Soviet Union, the<br />
Persian Gulf War, and the War<br />
on Terrorism)<br />
Development of the personal<br />
computer and the Internet<br />
Physical features in U.S.<br />
(Grand Canyon, Salton Sea,<br />
Great Salt Lake, and Mojave<br />
Desert)<br />
Man-made places (Chisholm<br />
Trail; Pittsburgh, PA;<br />
Gettysburg, PA; Kitty Hawk,<br />
NC; Pearl Harbor, HI; and<br />
Montgomery, AL)<br />
August, 2011