Many things will be taught during this school year in English/Language Arts and Mathematics, but the standards listed below constitute a summary of the most important concepts your child will be expected to master in fifth grade.
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS
Oral Language
5.3 The student will make planned oral presentations.
c) Summarize main points before or after presentations.
d) Incorporate visual aids to support the presentation.
5.4 The student will read fiction and non fiction with fluency and accuracy.
b) Use knowledge of root words, prefixes, and suffixes.
5.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fiction.
b) Describe character development in fiction and poetry selections.
c) Describe development of plot and character and explain how conflicts are resolved
5.6 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction.
c) Locate information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions.
5.7 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of information from a variety of print resources.
a) Develop notes that include important concepts, summaries, and identificationof information sources
Writing
5.8 The student will write for a variety of purposes: to describe, to inform, to entertain, and to explain.
e) Vary sentence structure
f) Revise writing for clarity
5.9 The student will edit writing for correct CPGS.
b) Use adjective and adverb comparisons.
d) Use apostrophes in contractions and all possessives.
e) Use quotation marks with dialogue.
MATHEMATICS
Number and Number Sense
5.1 The student will
a) read, write, and identify the place values of decimals through thousandths;
b) round decimal numbers to the nearest tenth or hundredth; and
c) compare the values of two decimals through thousandths.
5.2 The student will
a) recognize and name commonly used fractions( halves, fourths, fifths, eights and tenths) in their equivalent decimal form and vice versa; and
b) order a given set of fractions and decimals from least to greatest. Fractions will include like and unlike denominators limited to 12 or less, and mixed numbers.
Computation and Estimation
5.4 The student will find the sum, difference, and product of two numbers expressed as decimals through thousandths.
5.5 The student, given a dividend of four digits or fewer and a divisor of two digits or fewer, will find the quotient and remainder.
5.7 The student will add and subtract with fractions and mixed numbers, with and without regrouping, and express answers in simplest form.
Measurement
5.8 The student will describe and determine the perimeter of a polygon and the area of a square, rectangle, and right triangle, given the appropriate measures.
5.9 The student will identify and describe the diameter, radius, chord, and circumference of a circle.
Geometry
5.14 The student will classify angles and triangles as right, acute, or obtuse.
5.15 The student, using two-dimensional figures will
a) recognize, identify, describe, and analyze their properties in order to develop definitions of these figures;
b) identify and explore congruent, non-congruent, and similar figures.
5.16 The student will identify, compare, and analyze properties of three-dimensional geometric shapes.
Probability and Statistics
5.17 The student will
a) solve problems involving the probability of a single event by using tree diagrams or by constructing a sample space.
5.18 The student will, given a problem situation, collect, organize, and display a set of numerical data in a variety of forms, using bar graphs, stem-and-leaf plots, and line graphs, to draw conclusions and make predictions.
5.19 The student will find the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data.
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
5.20 The student will analyze the structure of numerical and geometric patterns (how they change or grow) and express the relationship, using words, tables, graphs, or a mathematical sentence.
