Academic Map: Where will the road take you?
An academic map is a plan for instruction. It is meant to guide our curriculum. Pace and interest often impede the amount of content covered, so at times we may not get to all of the topics, and at other times, exceed them. Learning is not a product, but a process! The skills we learn in fifth grade will support learners as they transition to middle school, high school, and beyond!
LANGUAGE ARTS
Language Arts encompasses spelling, vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, speaking and listening. Instruction will be differentiated and aligned with the Common Core State Standards which includes reading, writing, language, speaking and listening. The English Language Arts Common Core Standards for Fifth Grade can be located at:
www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
Spelling:
Spelling is differentiated into 3 to 4 lists. Students take weekly preassessments to determine their list. Spelling lists will follow the same spelling rule, but amount and difficulty will vary depending on the list.
Students learn and apply spelling rules for:
· Long a, Long e
· Long I, Long o
· Vowel Sounds: /o¯o/, and /yo¯o/
· Vowel Sounds: /o/
· Short Vowel Sounds
· Vowel Changes
· Final Schwa With I
· Final Schwa + n, Final Schwa + r
· r-Controlled Vowel /ur/
· r-Controlled Vowels: /a^r/, /a¨r/
· r-Controlled vowels: /^or/, /^ir/
· Vowel Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow
· Prefixes: pre-, re-, post-, co-
· Suffixes: -er, -est, -ed, -ing
· Consonant Sounds: /k/, /s/
· Consonant Changes
· Prefixes: dis-, im-, in-, non-, un-
· Endings: -en, -ize
· Compound Words
· Commonly Confused Terms
· Suffixes: -or, -er, -ist
· Regular and Irregular Plurals
· Prefices: bi-, mid-, semi-, tri-
· Complex Consonant: Soft g
· Suffixes: -ty, -ity, -ness, -ment, -ive
· Frequently Misspelled Words
· Suffixes: -ous, -ish, -ant, -ic
· Synonyms and Antonyms
· Greek and Latin Roots
· Greek and Latin Suffixes
Vocabulary:
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, using flexibly from a range of strategies.
- use context clues to understand the meaning of a word
- use common and grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word
- consult references materials (dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries), both print and digital, to find pronunciation, and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.
- Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
- Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.
- Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.
Grammar:
Demonstrate command of conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.
- Form and use the perfect verb tenses (I had/have/will have walked).
- Use verb tenses to convey various times, sequences, states and conditions.
- Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
- Use correlative conjunctions (either/or).
- Use punctuation to separate items in a series.
- Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence.
- Use a comma to set off the words yes and no (Yes, thank you), to set off a tag question from the rest of the sentence (It's true, isn't it?), and to indicate direct address (Is that you, Mrs. Gillis?).
- Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of work.
- Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.
- Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning reader/listener interest, and style.
- Compare and contrast the varieties of English used in stories, dramas, or poems.
Students will meet criteria by utilizing the Reader’s Workshop, engaging in guided reading groups, reading self-selected and teacher-selected books and texts, completing book reports each trimester, and reading informational texts in content specific areas: Science, Social Studies and Religion.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension:
· Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
· Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
· Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Students read and comprehend books and stories from fiction and nonfiction texts, in a variety of genres independently, in small groups and in whole group settings.
· Use strategies such as predicting, monitoring, summarizing, inferring
· By the end of the year, students read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and accurately.
· Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g. mysteries and adventure)
· Identify the theme of a literary selection.
· Determine the meaning of words or phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes
· Analyze how metaphors, similes, idioms, analogies, alliteration and onomatopoeia enhance meaning of literature
· Identify the plot, setting and characterization and explain the relationship to the theme
· Identify the characteristics of various types of genre
· Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story drawing details from the text
· Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
· Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
· Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g. graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem)
· Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text
· Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific or technical text based on specific information from the text.
· Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
· Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
· Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to the questions quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
· Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
· By the end of the year, read and comprehend information texts, including history/social studies, science, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Writing
Students write several pieces including personal narratives, opinion pieces, persuasive essays, informative and explanatory pieces (research), descriptions, and poetry using the six traits of writing.
· Introduce a topic clearly, state an opinion, and create an organized structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
· Logically ordered reasons are supported by facts and details
· Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases and clauses (e.g. consequently, specifically)
· Provide a concluding statement
· Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; including formatting (e.g. headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension
· Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
· Use precise language and topic-specific vocabulary to inform or explain the topic
· Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally
· Use narrative technique such as dialogue, description, and pacing to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations
· Use sensory details to convey experiences
· Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose and audience
· With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach.
· Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes and audiences.
Speaking and Listening
Students engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) on grade 5 topics and texts.
· Come to discussions prepared
· Follow agreed-upon rules for discussion and carry out assigned roles
· Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others.
· Review key ideas and draw conclusions
Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats
Summarize the points of a speaker
Report on a topic or text and present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details and support main ideas; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
Include multimedia components (e.g. graphics and sounds) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance development of main ideas or themes.
Math
Math instruction always begins with assessment of prior knowledge so students are given differentiated and tangible ways to master math concepts. Students will engage in many math games and math centers to provide ample ways to practice math skills. Math instruction is aligned with the Math Common Core State Standards which can be located at:
www.corestandards.org/Math
Use Place Value
- Place value through billions
- Compare whole numbers
- Represent decimals
- Place value through thousandths
- Compare decimals
- Order whole numbers and decimals
- Round Whole Numbers and Decimals
- Estimate Sums and Differences
- Add and Subtract Whole Numbers
- Problem Solving: Estimate or Exact Answer
- Add and Subtract Decimals
- Addition Properties
- Add and Subtract Mentally
- Prime factorization
- Powers and Exponents
- Multiplication Patterns
- The Distributive Property
- Estimate Products
- Multiply by One-Digit Numbers
- Multiply by Two-Digit Numbers
- Two-digit dividends
- Division Patterns
- Estimate Quotients
- Distributive property and partial quotients
- Divide by three- and four-digit dividends
- Place the first digit
- Quotients with zeros
- Interpret the Remainder
- Divide by Two-Digit Divisor
- Adjust Quotients
- Divide greater number
- Estimate products
- Use models to multiply
- Multiply decimals by whole numbers
- Multiply decimals
- Multiply decimals by powers of ten
- Multiplication properties
- Estimate Quotients
- Divide decimals by whole numbers
- Divide decimals
- Divide decimals by powers of ten
- Numerical Expressions
- Order of Operations
- Generate Patterns
- Patterns
- Map Locations
- Ordered Pairs
- Graph Patterns
- Fractions and Division
- Greatest common factor
- Simplest Form
- Least common multiple
- Compare Fractions
- Write fractions as decimals
- Improper Fractions
- Round fractions
- Add like fractions
- Subtract like fractions
- Add unlike fractions
- Subtract unlike fractions
- Estimate sums and differences
- Add Mixed numbers
- Subtract mixed numbers
- Subtract with renaming
- Parts of a number
- Model fraction multiplication
- Multiply whole numbers and fractions
- Multiply fractions
- Multiply mixed numbers
- Divide fractions
- Convert customary units of length
- Convert customary units weight
- Convert customary units of capacity
- Display measurement data on
- Convert metric units of length
- Convert metric units of mass
- Convert metric units of capacity
- Polygons
- Sides and angles of triangles
- Classify triangles
- Sides and angles of quadrilaterals
- Classify quadrilaterals
Science
Throughout the year students will engage in investigations where they plan and carry out experiments to develop models and evidence that explain phenomena such as:
- Can new substances be created by combining other substances?
- How does matter cycle through an ecosystem?
- Where does the energy in food come from and what is it used for?
Systems in Living Things
· Life processes of plants and animals
· Structure of plant and animal cells
· Life cycle of plants and animals
Populations and Ecosystems
· Dynamic interactions of living and nonliving things in an ecosystem
· How energy and matter flow through an ecosystem
· Biomes
· Biodiversity
The Solid Earth
· Properties and uses of minerals and rocks
· The rock cycle
· Earth’s structure
· Fossils as clues to the age of the rocks
· The formation of crustal features, such as mountains
The Solar System and Beyond
· Stars and galaxies
Social Studies
The United States
- Native People of North America
- Exploration and Colonization
- Colonial America
- The Struggle of North America
- The New Nation
Religion
Jesus Christ Share His Life With Us
· Jesus Shares God’s Life With Us
· Jesus Shares His Mission With the Church
· The Church Celebrates Seven Sacraments
· New Life in Christ
· The Celebration of Baptism
· The Liturgical Year
· Ordinary Time
Confirmation and Eucharist Complete Our Initiation
· The Coming of the Holy Spirit
· The Celebration of Confirmation
· Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life
· The Celebration of the Eucharist
· Living As Prayerful People
The Sacraments of Healing Restore Us
· We Turn to God
· The Celebration of Reconciliation
· Jesus, the Healer
· The Celebration of the Anointing of the Sick
· Mary, Model of Discipleship
We Love and Serve As Jesus Did
· Faith, Hope, and Love
· Called to Live As Jesus’ Disciples
· Matrimony: A Promise of Faithfulness and Love
· Holy Orders: A Promise of Service for the People of God
· One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
We also learn and celebrate during these Holy Times:
· Advent
· Christmas
· Lent
· Triduum
· Easter, and other content