4th 9 Weeks Learning Goals 5th-2

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Pitt County Schools 5th Grade ELA Power Standards 4th 9 Weeks: Learning Goals Reading: Informational Text

Reading: Literature RL5.9: Compare and contrast RL5.10: By the end of the year, read and understand literature at stories in the same genre on the high end of the grades 4-5 their approaches to similar text complexity band proficiently themes and topics. and independently for sustained periods of time. Connect prior knowledge and experiences to text.

Will Know: *The genres realistic fiction, folklore, mystery, fantasy, and poetry. *Authors use a variety of ways to get the reader to determine a theme. * The elements/structure of a story needed (characters, settings, conflict, resolution, main events) in order to compare them.

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Will be Able to: *Identify the genre of a story. *Determine the structure of two stories in the same genre. *Summarize how the characters respond to conflict. *Determine the theme of each story. *Explain how the theme of the story was conveyed to the reader. *Compare both stories approaches to the theme, noting similarities and differences in each.

Alan Becker (District Specialist for Elementary Education ELA)

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RI5.3: 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 in the text.

RL5.10: By the end of the year, read and understand informational text at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently and independently for sustained periods of time. Connect prior knowledge and experiences to text.

L5.4: Determine and/or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies: context clues, word parts, word relationships, and reference materials.

Will Know: *The characteristics of historical, scientific, and technical text. *Events, ideas, or concepts in an informational text are a result of something happening. *Authors write about individuals interacting with one another in a text to support outcomes in historical and scientific texts. *Relationships or interactions are the “cause,” events, ideas, or concepts are the “effect”

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Will Know: *Words often have dual meanings *Authors sometimes use phrases figuratively to engage the reader.

Will be Able to: *Identify the type of informational text. *Represent the events, ideas, or concepts using a graphic organizer. *Analyze and explain the “cause” behind each “effect” (event, topic, or concept) using specific details from the text.

Will be Able to: *Recognize that the meaning of a word or phrase is unknown to the reader. *Determine which context clues to use to help identify the meaning of the unknown word or phrase. *Explain the meaning of the unknown word or phrase in their own words and check to see if it makes sense in the context of the story or informational text.