Reading, Writing, and Communicating
Expectations for 5th Grade Students:
Oral Expression and Listening: Speak to an audience to express an opinion, to persuade, or to explain an idea/process; actively listen during a presentation using listening strategies (asking questions, paraphrasing, and displaying positive body posture).
Reading for All Purposes: Read literary (stories and poems), informational, and persuasive texts in order to understand, interpret, and compare ideas from a variety of authors.
Writing and Composition: Use a writing process – planning, drafting, revising, editing, sharing – to produce effective, unique, well-researched, and grammatically correct writing for different audiences and purposes (telling a story, explaining a topic, building an argument).
Research Inquiry and Design: Gather and organize information from different sources and produce a well-organized, well-thought-out written or verbal presentation that answers a specific question.
Math
Expectations for 5th Grade Students:
Number and Quantity: Fluently (consistently) multiply multi-digit whole numbers; extend the idea of place value to decimals; begin to divide using multi-digit divisors (fluency isn't expected until sixth grade); multiply fractions; add and subtract fractions by creating equivalent fractions (1/2 is the same as 2/4); understand the relationship between fractions and division (2/5 means 2 ÷ 5); solve simple word problems involving the division of fractions with pictures (the formal procedure for dividing fractions is taught in sixth grade).
Algebra and Function: Write and interpret numerical expressions.
Data, Statistics, and Probability: Convert within the metric system; find the volumes of rectangular prisms using multiplication.
Geometry: Graph points on a grid using positive numbers.