Fifth Grade Reading

Fifth grade students have developed sufficient reading skills to help them as they pursue new interests and knowledge in their expanding world.

Students will:

• use root words, prefixes, suffixes, and syllabication to gain meaning of unknown words.
• identify the effect of sound within context (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and repetition).
• distinguish among various literary genres (poetry, drama, ads, historical fiction, biographies, and auto biographies).
• recognize reasonable predictions of future events within a given context.
• identify stated or implied cause and effect relationships and the main idea and supporting details within text.
• distinguish between elements of fact and opinion within context.
• identify similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole in context.
• identify and sequence the main events of a plot, their causes, and how they influence future actions.
• select the appropriate summary statement for a given passage.
• use headings, captions, key words, maps, charts, graphics, indexes, glossaries, and table of contents to gain information from texts.