The Yearly Objectives and Vocabulary they
will use:
Fifth grade students are required to quote accurately from the text to support their answers. “Quote accurately” may include using their own words. Determining a theme continues to be a focus and students should be giving more thought to characters‟ actions in a text. They are required to refer to specific details in the text when finding the similarities and differences between two or more characters, settings, or events.
Use questions and prompts such as:
Can you tell me the reasons
why you think…? Show where you linked your thinking to the text.
What are the most important events that happened in the story?
How do you know?
What is the theme of this text?
Summarize the story from beginning to end in a few sentences.
Can you tell me how the character solved the problem in this story?
Describe how these two characters are the same. How are they different?
Students will continue to tell the meaning of words and phrases in a text and focus on figurative language. Students should tell how chapters, scenes, or stanzas in a series fit into the overall structure of a story, drama, or poem. The students must continue identifying the narrator‟s point of view and also explain how it impacts the events in the text.
Use questions and prompts such as:
What do you do when you come to words or phrases you do not know?
Can you tell me how this text is presented/ organized?
Think about what you read. Who is telling the story?
Can you tell how the person telling the story is thinking?
How does this affect the events of the story?
Fifth grade
students must examine what is heard and/or viewed to gain an appreciation and understanding of the text. Students will find similarities and differences in themes and topics when reading stories of the same genre.
Use questions and prompts such as:
Can you tell how the illustrations affect the mood of the text?
Does this hypertext or embedded video help you better understand the text?
What does it tell you about what you read?
In reading books of this genre, what happened to the characters that are the same?
What happened that is different?
In reading books of this genre, how did characters solve problems in different ways across texts?
In reading books of this genre, how are the plots the same or different across texts?
will use:
Fifth grade students are required to quote accurately from the text to support their answers. “Quote accurately” may include using their own words. Determining a theme continues to be a focus and students should be giving more thought to characters‟ actions in a text. They are required to refer to specific details in the text when finding the similarities and differences between two or more characters, settings, or events.
Use questions and prompts such as:
Can you tell me the reasons
why you think…? Show where you linked your thinking to the text.
What are the most important events that happened in the story?
How do you know?
What is the theme of this text?
Summarize the story from beginning to end in a few sentences.
Can you tell me how the character solved the problem in this story?
Describe how these two characters are the same. How are they different?
Students will continue to tell the meaning of words and phrases in a text and focus on figurative language. Students should tell how chapters, scenes, or stanzas in a series fit into the overall structure of a story, drama, or poem. The students must continue identifying the narrator‟s point of view and also explain how it impacts the events in the text.
Use questions and prompts such as:
What do you do when you come to words or phrases you do not know?
Can you tell me how this text is presented/ organized?
Think about what you read. Who is telling the story?
Can you tell how the person telling the story is thinking?
How does this affect the events of the story?
Fifth grade
students must examine what is heard and/or viewed to gain an appreciation and understanding of the text. Students will find similarities and differences in themes and topics when reading stories of the same genre.
Use questions and prompts such as:
Can you tell how the illustrations affect the mood of the text?
Does this hypertext or embedded video help you better understand the text?
What does it tell you about what you read?
In reading books of this genre, what happened to the characters that are the same?
What happened that is different?
In reading books of this genre, how did characters solve problems in different ways across texts?
In reading books of this genre, how are the plots the same or different across texts?