Fifth-Grade Power Standards /
LANGUAGE ARTS
READING
Interacts with the text:
  • makes predictions,
  • formulates questions,
  • supports answers from textual information, previous experience, and/or other sources,
  • draws on personal, literary, and cultural understandings, and
  • seeks additional information.

Expands and refines vocabulary through wide reading, word and content area study, use of the writing process, debate, discussion, seminars, examination of the author’s craft, and use of word reference materials.
Reads grade-level text aloud with fluency, comprehension, expression, and personal style, demonstrating an awareness of volume, pace, audience, and purpose.
Asks and answers questions that require analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of grade-level fiction and nonfiction material.
WRITING
Applies the steps of the writing process to create a final product:
  • prewrites, creates a rough draft, revises simple and/or complex sentences for clarity of thought, impact, focused communication, edits, publishes, and shares final product
  • develops a lead, characters, and mood, and
  • edits final product for grammar, writing conventions, and format.

Applies elements of effective writing (i.e., idea, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions).
Applies writing conventions (i.e., grammar, spelling, capitalization, punctuation);
  • identifies and correctly uses verbs that are often misused (e.g., lie/lay, sit/set, rise/raise),
  • uses colons and quotation marks correctly,
  • spells most commonly used words accurately using a multi-strategy approach (e.g., appropriate resources, spelling patterns, rules),
  • uses complex sentence structures (e.g., independent and dependents clauses, transitions, conjunctions to connect ideas) and applies punctuation and capitalization in written work and
  • uses a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings.

Applies appropriate types of writing (i.e., descriptive, narrative, expressive, expository, persuasive and analytical)) for the intended purpose and audience:
  • creates journals, notes, stories, reports, and letters using appropriate formats and technologies, and
  • formulates hypotheses, evaluates information and ideas, presents and supports arguments, and influences the thinking of others through written work

EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE: SPEAKING
Applies speaking strategies:
  • memorizes and recites passages from a variety of genres,
  • shows an awareness of volume, pace, audience, and purpose when reading aloud and speaking, and
  • participates in one-to-one conferences or discussions by:
  • asking questions to indicate different levels of certainty or to pose an hypothesis (e.g., “I’m not sure…,”“what if…” and
  • confirming understanding through paraphrasing or repeating directions and/or suggestions.

Applies appropriate types of speaking (i.e., descriptive, narrative, expressive, expository, persuasive, and analytical) for a variety of purposes and audiences:
  • develops speeches that formulate hypotheses, evaluate information and ideas, present and support arguments, and influence the thinking of others,
  • makes presentations to inform or persuade, selecting vocabulary for impact, and
  • creates and delivers focused, coherent presentations that convey ideas clearly and relate to the background and interest of the audience.

RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE: LISTENING AND VIEWING
Listens actively and critically:
  • asks questions,
  • delves deeper into the topic,
  • elaborates on the information and ideas presented,
  • evaluates information and ideas,
  • makes inferences and draws conclusions, and
  • makes judgments.

Follows oral and written multistep instructions that provide information about a task or assignment.
RESEARCH
Conducts research using a variety of sources (e.g., artifacts, people, libraries, databases, Internet) for assigned or self-selected projects.
MATH
NUMBER AND OPERATIONS
Compare and order using concrete or illustrated models:
  • whole number (to millions)
  • common fractions (halves, thirds, fourths, eighths)
  • decimals (thousandths)

Identify prime and composite numbers to 50.
Use arithmetic operations and inverse relationships to represent and solve real-world problems.
Use estimation strategies to verify the reasonableness of calculated results.
ALGEBRA
Describe, represent, and analyze patterns and relationships.
Understand and use mathematical models such as:
  • the number line to model the relationship between rational numbers and rational number operations
  • pictorial representation of addition and subtraction of rational numbers with regrouping
  • manipulatives or pictures to model computational procedures
  • graphs, tables, and charts to describe data
  • diagrams or pictures to model problem situations

GEOMETRY
Identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures by their properties.
Understand and compute the perimeter of regular polygons.
MEASUREMENT
Solve measurement problems using appropriate tools involving length, perimeter, weight, capacity, time, and temperature.
DATA ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY
Organize, read, and display numerical (quantitative) and non-numerical (qualitative) data in a clear, organized, and accurate manner including correct titles, labels, and intervals or categories including:
  • frequency tables
  • stem and leaf plots
  • bar, line, and circle graphs
  • Venn diagrams
  • pictorial displays
  • charts and tables

Make and justify valid inferences, predictions, and arguments based on statistical analysis.
Determine probabilities through experiments and/or simulations and compare the results with mathematical expressions.
SOCIAL STUDIES
HISTORY
Describe and explain the reasons for colonization, to include:
  • religious freedom
  • desire for land
  • economic opportunity
  • a new way of life, including the role and views of key individuals who founded colonies (e.g., John Smith, William Penn, Lord Baltimore)

Describe the development of slavery as a widespread practice that limits human freedoms and potentials.
Differentiate between, locate, and use primary and secondary sources (e.g., computer software, interviews, biographies, oral histories, print, visual material, and artifacts) to acquire information.
Identify the interactions between American Indians and European settlers, including agriculture, cultural exchanges, alliances, and conflicts (e.g., the First Thanksgiving, the Pueblo Revolt, French & Indian War).
GEOGRAPHY
Make and use different kinds of maps, globes, charts, and databases.
Identify and locate each of the 50 states and capitals of the United States.
Explain how physical features influenced the expansion of the United States.
Understand how resources impact daily life.
CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
Explain how the three branches of national government function and understand how they are defined in the United States Constitution.
Identify and describe the significance of American symbols, landmarks, and essential documents (e.g., Declaration of Independence; United States Constitution; Bill of Rights; Federalist Papers; Washington, DC; Liberty Bell; Gettysburg Address; Statue of Liberty; government to government accords; Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago; Gadsden Purchase).
Identify and summarize contributions of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups to national identity.
Describe the narrative of the people and events associated with the development of the United States Constitution and describe its significance to the foundation of the American republic, to include:
  • colonists’ and Native Americans’ shared sense of individualism, independence, and religious freedom that developed before the revolution
  • Articles of Confederation
  • purpose of the Constitutional Convention
  • natural rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence

ECONOMICS
Understand the impact of supply and demand on consumers and producers in a free enterprise.
Understand the economic motivation of exploration and colonization by colonial powers.
SCIENCE
SCIENTIFIC THINKING AND PRACTICE
Plan and conduct investigations, including formulating testable questions, making systematic observations, developing logical conclusions, and communicating findings.
Make predictions based on analyses of data, observations, and explanations.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Describe properties (e.g., relative volume, ability to flow) of the three states of matter.
Describe how energy can be stored and converted to a different form of energy (e.g., springs, gravity) and know that machines and living things convert stored energy to motion and heat.
Understand that when a force (e.g., gravity, friction) acts on an object, the object speeds up, slows down, or goes in a different direction.
Identify simple machines and describe how they give advantage to users (e.g., levers, pulleys, whets and axles, inclined planes, screws, wedges).
LIFE SCIENCE
Identify the components of habitats and ecosystems (producers, consumers, decomposers, predators).
Know that plants and animals have life cycles that include birth, growth and development, reproduction, and death and that these cycles differ for different organisms.
Describe the relationships among cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, whole organisms, and ecosystems.
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
Understand that Earth is part of a larger solar system, which is part of an even larger galaxy (Milky Way), which is one of the many galaxies.
Understand that water and air relate to Earth’s processes, including:
  • How the water cycle relates to weather
  • How clouds are made of tiny droplets of water, like fog or steam

Recognize that the seasons are caused by Earth’s motion around the sun and the tilt of Earth’s axis of rotation.
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Describe the contributions of science to understanding local or current issues (e.g., watershed and community decisions regarding water use.).

Fifth-Grade Power Standards

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