5th Grade Focus Standards
English Language Arts
1. 5L.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing
2. 5L.6 Acquire and use grade-appropriate academic and domain specific words and phrases.
3. 5RF. 4 Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
4. 5RI.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
5. 5RL.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
6. 5W.1 Write opinion pieces
7. 5W.2 Write informative/explanatory pieces
8. 5W.3 Write narrative pieces
9. 5W.9.a Apply grade 5 reading standards to literature (e.g., "Compare and Contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or a drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact)").
10. 5W.9b Apply grade 5 reading standards to informational texts (e.g., "Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s)").
Mathematics
1. 5NBT.2 - Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use exponents to denote powers of 10.
2. 5NBT.5 - Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
3. 5NBT.6 - Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit divisors, using strategies, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division.
4. 5NBT.7 - Add, subtract, multiply and divided decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; explain reasoning.
5. 5NF.1 - Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum
Or difference of fractions with like denominators.
6. 5NF.6 - Solve real-world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers by using visual fraction models or equations.
7. 5OA.1 - Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.
8. 5MD.1 - Convert among different sized measurement units and use them in solving multi-step, real world problems.
9. 5MD.3 - Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume and measurement.
10. 5MD.5 - Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and solve real world and mathematical problems involving volume.