The Common Core in Washington

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Skills available for Washington fifth-grade language arts standards

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Common Core State Standards: Language Common Core State Standards: Language
Common Core State Standards: Reading: Foundational Skills Common Core State Standards: Reading: Foundational Skills
Common Core State Standards: Reading: Informational Text Common Core State Standards: Reading: Informational Text
Common Core State Standards: Reading: Literature Common Core State Standards: Reading: Literature
Common Core State Standards: Writing Common Core State Standards: Writing

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R Reading

Foundational Skills
- ELA.5.R.1 Students know and apply the basic features of print and how it is organized.
  - ELA.5.R.1.a Describe how text and visual features work together to improve understanding of fiction, poetry, plays, and non-fiction.
- ELA.5.R.3 Students decode words accurately by applying grade-level phonics and word analysis skills.
  - ELA.5.R.3.a Apply knowledge of syllable types and division patterns to decode complex, unfamiliar, multisyllabic words in a text.
  - ELA.5.R.3.b Use knowledge of roots and affixes (including Greek and Latin forms) to decode unfamiliar words, determine meaning, and support understanding.
  - ELA.5.R.3.c Read grade-level texts orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression to support understanding, improving fluency through repeated readings.
Comprehending and Interpreting Texts
- ELA.5.R.4 Students comprehend and interpret texts using knowledge of language, text structures, and content to make meaning.
  - ELA.5.R.4.a Explain their purposes for reading.
  - ELA.5.R.4.b Visualize, imagine, and/or otherwise engage the senses to make meaning of the text.
    - Sort sensory details (5-K.1)
    - Identify sensory details (5-K.2)
  - ELA.5.R.4.c Make and revise inferences and predictions, quoting evidence from the text to support them.
  - ELA.5.R.4.d Use a variety of strategies to maintain motivation and reconnect to the flow of reading.
  - ELA.5.R.4.e Explain how images and text work together to influence reader understanding and how text/visual features add to the written text's meaning.
    - Compare mythological illustrations (5-M.1)
    - Select and use text features (5-N.1)
  - ELA.5.R.4.f Summarize a text by selecting key details and examples.
    - Summarize a story (5-V.1)
  - ELA.5.R.4.g Determine the narrator's point of view and how it impacts how events are described.
    - Identify the narrative point of view (5-I.1)
  - ELA.5.R.4.h Describe, compare, and contrast stories' characters, settings, and major events, including characters' perspectives, drawing on specific details in the text(s).
  - ELA.5.R.4.i Explain how text structure, such as problem/solution among others, shapes meaning and influences reader understanding or experience.
Analyzing, Evaluating, and Using Texts
- ELA.5.R.5 Students analyze texts, introducing and attributing textual evidence when relevant.
  - ELA.5.R.5.a Explain how an author's choices influence readers' thoughts, feelings, or responses.
  - ELA.5.R.5.b Explain the main idea, theme, or key information in a text, how it deepens, expands, or changes their previous understanding, and how it connects to their own experiences.
  - ELA.5.R.5.c Compare and contrast treatments of similar characters, themes, topics, and patterns of events in texts.
- ELA.5.R.6 Students evaluate texts.
  - ELA.5.R.6.a Explain their opinion about a text, providing relevant details.
  - ELA.5.R.6.b Evaluate how effectively a text supports the reader to understand and/or relate to ideas, experiences, or perspectives, using shared criteria.

W Writing

Writing Purposes and Products
- ELA.5.W.1 Students compose multimodal texts in a variety of genres across content areas for a variety of purposes.
  - ELA.5.W.1.a Compose in order to describe experiences, ideas, and imaginings.
    - Show character emotions and traits (5-X.1)
    - Add imagery to stories (5-X.3)
  - ELA.5.W.1.b Compose in order to record observations and/or inform others about their observations and explanations of the world.
    - Order items from most general to most specific (5-T.4)
    - Organize information by topic (5-T.5)
  - ELA.5.W.1.c Compose in order to take and defend a position on an issue.
  - ELA.5.W.1.d Compose in order to persuade others to consider new options, resolve conflicts, and create and strengthen communities.
  - ELA.5.W.1.e Compose in order to tell stories and narratives.
    - Put the sentences in order (5-T.1)
Plan and Draft
- ELA.5.W.2 Students plan and complete writing projects.
  - ELA.5.W.2.a Develop meaningful ideas by drawing from interests, experiences, knowledge, or research.
  - ELA.5.W.2.b Determine the audience and what they may already know, think, and/or feel about the topic.
    - Identify the purpose of a text (5-F.1)
  - ELA.5.W.2.c Determine the process for completing a project or task, adjusting plans as needed.
- ELA.5.W.3 Students draft content within the genre, using tools effectively.
  - ELA.5.W.3.a Generate ideas for topics, genres, and materials.
    - Order items from most general to most specific (5-T.4)
  - ELA.5.W.3.b Gather ideas and select relevant material from research, images, and/or multimedia artifacts that illustrate and support their ideas, identifying when and how it's fair to use the creative work of others.
    - Organize information by topic (5-T.5)
    - Identify and correct plagiarism (5-AA.1)
  - ELA.5.W.3.c Select features and/or genre conventions to follow or adapt from mentor texts.
  - ELA.5.W.3.d Develop descriptions using concrete, sensory details and figurative language.
  - ELA.5.W.3.e Develop points and ideas within a topic with facts, definitions, details, examples, and/or quotations, using linking words to connect ideas.
  - ELA.5.W.3.f Examine and explain relationships between information and ideas within a topic to draw conclusions.
    - Combine main ideas from two texts (5-D.4)
  - ELA.5.W.3.g Support points by using evidence from texts, paraphrasing, summarizing, and/or selecting quotations when relevant.
  - ELA.5.W.3.h Support a position with facts and reasons.
    - Distinguish facts from opinions (5-W.1)
    - Choose reasons to support an opinion (5-W.3)
  - ELA.5.W.3.i Use strategic language to persuade others with feelings, logical reasonings, evidence, and examples.
  - ELA.5.W.3.j Use a variety of narrative techniques to develop events and characters as appropriate to the genre.
  - ELA.5.W.3.k Attribute sources in ways that are consistent with the genre.
    - Identify and correct plagiarism (5-AA.1)
- ELA.5.W.4 Students organize content using the genre's structure.
  - ELA.5.W.4.a Craft engaging introductions using a variety of strategies.
    - Choose the best topic sentence (5-U.1)
  - ELA.5.W.4.b Organize paragraphs and sections within the text.
    - Organize information by topic (5-T.5)
    - Remove the sentence that does not belong (5-T.6)
  - ELA.5.W.4.c Compose a concluding statement or section that provides a sense of closure.
    - Choose the best concluding sentence (5-U.2)
Revise and Edit
- ELA.5.W.5 Students evaluate, revise, and edit their compositions using a variety of strategies, including effective use of technology.
  - ELA.5.W.5.a Re-read draft for clarity, development of ideas, and to determine next steps.
  - ELA.5.W.5.b Gather and consider using feedback about their compositions.
  - ELA.5.W.5.c Revise by using what they learned from re-reading and feedback.
  - ELA.5.W.5.d Edit for mechanics, conventions, and consistency of text/visual features, including attributions. [Demonstrate command of Language standards in grade K–5.]
Share and Publish
- ELA.5.W.6 Students share and publish compositions for known and trusted audiences in ways that reinforce the communicative purposes of writing.
  - ELA.5.W.6.a Identify who can access compositions on digital and non-digital platforms, now and in the future, and how those people might react.

L Language

Knowledge of Language
- ELA.5.L.1 Students identify and discuss when and why language is used differently according to the context.
  - ELA.5.L.1.a Differentiate between contexts that call for formal and informal language.
    - Which sentence is more formal? (5-G.1)
  - ELA.5.L.1.b Determine literal and colloquial meanings of words and phrases in context.
Structure and Functions of English
- ELA.5.L.2 Students produce, expand, combine, and refine sentences in conversations and writing about experiences, events, and ideas.
  - ELA.5.L.2.a Combine and vary sentence structures to support clarity and style.
    - Create varied sentences based on models (5-Y.1)
    - Create compound sentences (5-MM.10)
  - ELA.5.L.2.b Use conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections to connect ideas and clarify meaning.
  - ELA.5.L.2.c Use verb tenses and modal auxiliaries, including perfect verb tenses, to communicate time and sequence.
- ELA.5.L.3 Students determine the meaning of and use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to with accuracy.
  - ELA.5.L.3.a Use context, roots, affixes, word relationships, and reference materials to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.
  - ELA.5.L.3.b Use correlative conjunctions to communicate relationships among ideas.
    - Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (5-UU.3)
    - Fill in the missing correlative conjunction (5-UU.4)
  - ELA.5.L.3.c Use frequently confused words correctly, including homonyms.
- ELA.5.L.4 Students demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meaning in the context of conversations, reading, and writing about experiences, events, and ideas.
  - ELA.5.L.4.a Recognize, interpret, and use similes, metaphors, adages, idioms, and proverbs.
  - ELA.5.L.4.b Use the relationships among words, including synonyms, antonyms, and multiple-meaning words, to understand and express nuances in meaning.
Foundational Written Language (Encoding and Transcription)
- ELA.5.L.5 Students develop fluent and accurate writing skills.
  - ELA.5.L.5.a Write complete sentences that combine ideas using simple, compound, and complex sentence structures.
  - ELA.5.L.5.b Spell multisyllabic and morphologically complex words using knowledge of syllable patterns, roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
  - ELA.5.L.5.c Use conventional spelling patterns and generalizations, consulting reference materials and/or tools as needed to check and correct spelling.
  - ELA.5.L.5.d Use punctuation to clarify meaning.
  - ELA.5.L.5.e Use underlining, quotation marks, italics, and capital letters appropriately when attributing the works of others.
  - ELA.5.L.5.f Develop automaticity in spelling and handwriting and/or other modalities to support written expression.

RML Research and Media Literacy

Research and Inquiry
- ELA.5.RML.1 Students engage in research and inquiry by asking questions and seeking answers from information sources.
  - ELA.5.RML.1.a Ask focused questions about things that make them curious and refine their questions as they learn new things about the topic.
  - ELA.5.RML.1.b Generate ideas for where they might find information based on what they and/or others know about the topic.
  - ELA.5.RML.1.c Select and access a variety of relevant information sources, including by navigating libraries and by talking to people with relevant experience or knowledge.
    - Identify primary and secondary sources (5-AA.2)
  - ELA.5.RML.1.d Select and use digital search tools by adapting search terms and analyzing search results.
  - ELA.5.RML.1.e Gather relevant information using a variety of strategies.
    - Identify supporting details in literary texts (5-W.4)
    - Identify supporting details in informational texts (5-W.5)
  - ELA.5.RML.1.f Use and/or share new learning.
Media Literacy
- ELA.5.RML.2 Students explain reactions to media messages.
  - ELA.5.RML.2.a Explain how people's different ways of looking at things affect their reactions to media messages.
  - ELA.5.RML.2.b Explain how media messages make them feel and what these emotions may make them want to say or do.
  - ELA.5.RML.2.c Explain reasons why people do or do not change their minds when they encounter a media message.
- ELA.5.RML.3 Students identify the purposes of media messages and how those purposes are achieved.
  - ELA.5.RML.3.a Determine whether a media message is mainly helping people learn new things, trying to change people's minds, selling something, or just for fun.
    - Identify the purpose of a text (5-F.1)
  - ELA.5.RML.3.b Identify the techniques, including appeals and integration of multimedia, used to achieve the media message's purpose.
- ELA.5.RML.4 Students compare different parts of media messages.
  - ELA.5.RML.4.a Determine whether statements can be either true or false, express an opinion, or take a position.
    - Distinguish facts from opinions (5-W.1)
    - Identify an author's statement of opinion (5-W.2)
  - ELA.5.RML.4.b Check the accuracy of information that is either true or false by comparing what multiple reliable sources have to say about it.
  - ELA.5.RML.4.c Explain how changing an image or the words used to describe an image can change the meaning of a media message.
  - ELA.5.RML.4.d Determine whether there are facts and reasons to support a position.
- ELA.5.RML.5 Students identify people who create media messages and choices they make.
  - ELA.5.RML.5.a Identify who is responsible for the content of media messages when it is and is not difficult to determine.
  - ELA.5.RML.5.b Describe different ways to be an expert about a particular topic.
  - ELA.5.RML.5.c Describe how choices made by those responsible for media messages contribute to how the subject is portrayed.

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R Reading

Foundational Skills

ELA.5.R.1 Students know and apply the basic features of print and how it is organized.

ELA.5.R.1.a Describe how text and visual features work together to improve understanding of fiction, poetry, plays, and non-fiction.

ELA.5.R.3 Students decode words accurately by applying grade-level phonics and word analysis skills.

ELA.5.R.3.a Apply knowledge of syllable types and division patterns to decode complex, unfamiliar, multisyllabic words in a text.

ELA.5.R.3.b Use knowledge of roots and affixes (including Greek and Latin forms) to decode unfamiliar words, determine meaning, and support understanding.

ELA.5.R.3.c Read grade-level texts orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression to support understanding, improving fluency through repeated readings.

Comprehending and Interpreting Texts

ELA.5.R.4 Students comprehend and interpret texts using knowledge of language, text structures, and content to make meaning.

ELA.5.R.4.a Explain their purposes for reading.

ELA.5.R.4.b Visualize, imagine, and/or otherwise engage the senses to make meaning of the text.

ELA.5.R.4.c Make and revise inferences and predictions, quoting evidence from the text to support them.

ELA.5.R.4.d Use a variety of strategies to maintain motivation and reconnect to the flow of reading.

ELA.5.R.4.e Explain how images and text work together to influence reader understanding and how text/visual features add to the written text's meaning.

ELA.5.R.4.f Summarize a text by selecting key details and examples.

ELA.5.R.4.g Determine the narrator's point of view and how it impacts how events are described.

ELA.5.R.4.h Describe, compare, and contrast stories' characters, settings, and major events, including characters' perspectives, drawing on specific details in the text(s).

ELA.5.R.4.i Explain how text structure, such as problem/solution among others, shapes meaning and influences reader understanding or experience.

Analyzing, Evaluating, and Using Texts

ELA.5.R.5 Students analyze texts, introducing and attributing textual evidence when relevant.

ELA.5.R.5.a Explain how an author's choices influence readers' thoughts, feelings, or responses.

ELA.5.R.5.b Explain the main idea, theme, or key information in a text, how it deepens, expands, or changes their previous understanding, and how it connects to their own experiences.

ELA.5.R.5.c Compare and contrast treatments of similar characters, themes, topics, and patterns of events in texts.

ELA.5.R.6 Students evaluate texts.

ELA.5.R.6.a Explain their opinion about a text, providing relevant details.

ELA.5.R.6.b Evaluate how effectively a text supports the reader to understand and/or relate to ideas, experiences, or perspectives, using shared criteria.

W Writing

Writing Purposes and Products

ELA.5.W.1 Students compose multimodal texts in a variety of genres across content areas for a variety of purposes.

ELA.5.W.1.a Compose in order to describe experiences, ideas, and imaginings.

ELA.5.W.1.b Compose in order to record observations and/or inform others about their observations and explanations of the world.

ELA.5.W.1.c Compose in order to take and defend a position on an issue.

ELA.5.W.1.d Compose in order to persuade others to consider new options, resolve conflicts, and create and strengthen communities.

ELA.5.W.1.e Compose in order to tell stories and narratives.

Plan and Draft

ELA.5.W.2 Students plan and complete writing projects.

ELA.5.W.2.a Develop meaningful ideas by drawing from interests, experiences, knowledge, or research.

ELA.5.W.2.b Determine the audience and what they may already know, think, and/or feel about the topic.

ELA.5.W.2.c Determine the process for completing a project or task, adjusting plans as needed.

ELA.5.W.3 Students draft content within the genre, using tools effectively.

ELA.5.W.3.a Generate ideas for topics, genres, and materials.

ELA.5.W.3.b Gather ideas and select relevant material from research, images, and/or multimedia artifacts that illustrate and support their ideas, identifying when and how it's fair to use the creative work of others.

ELA.5.W.3.c Select features and/or genre conventions to follow or adapt from mentor texts.

ELA.5.W.3.d Develop descriptions using concrete, sensory details and figurative language.

ELA.5.W.3.e Develop points and ideas within a topic with facts, definitions, details, examples, and/or quotations, using linking words to connect ideas.

ELA.5.W.3.f Examine and explain relationships between information and ideas within a topic to draw conclusions.

ELA.5.W.3.g Support points by using evidence from texts, paraphrasing, summarizing, and/or selecting quotations when relevant.

ELA.5.W.3.h Support a position with facts and reasons.

ELA.5.W.3.i Use strategic language to persuade others with feelings, logical reasonings, evidence, and examples.

ELA.5.W.3.j Use a variety of narrative techniques to develop events and characters as appropriate to the genre.

ELA.5.W.3.k Attribute sources in ways that are consistent with the genre.

ELA.5.W.4 Students organize content using the genre's structure.

ELA.5.W.4.a Craft engaging introductions using a variety of strategies.

ELA.5.W.4.b Organize paragraphs and sections within the text.

ELA.5.W.4.c Compose a concluding statement or section that provides a sense of closure.

Revise and Edit

ELA.5.W.5 Students evaluate, revise, and edit their compositions using a variety of strategies, including effective use of technology.

ELA.5.W.5.a Re-read draft for clarity, development of ideas, and to determine next steps.

ELA.5.W.5.b Gather and consider using feedback about their compositions.

ELA.5.W.5.c Revise by using what they learned from re-reading and feedback.

ELA.5.W.5.d Edit for mechanics, conventions, and consistency of text/visual features, including attributions. [Demonstrate command of Language standards in grade K–5.]

Share and Publish

ELA.5.W.6 Students share and publish compositions for known and trusted audiences in ways that reinforce the communicative purposes of writing.

ELA.5.W.6.a Identify who can access compositions on digital and non-digital platforms, now and in the future, and how those people might react.

L Language

Knowledge of Language

ELA.5.L.1 Students identify and discuss when and why language is used differently according to the context.

ELA.5.L.1.a Differentiate between contexts that call for formal and informal language.

ELA.5.L.1.b Determine literal and colloquial meanings of words and phrases in context.

Structure and Functions of English

ELA.5.L.2 Students produce, expand, combine, and refine sentences in conversations and writing about experiences, events, and ideas.

ELA.5.L.2.a Combine and vary sentence structures to support clarity and style.

ELA.5.L.2.b Use conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections to connect ideas and clarify meaning.

ELA.5.L.2.c Use verb tenses and modal auxiliaries, including perfect verb tenses, to communicate time and sequence.

ELA.5.L.3 Students determine the meaning of and use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to with accuracy.

ELA.5.L.3.a Use context, roots, affixes, word relationships, and reference materials to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.