Fifth Grade Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details
Essential Questions:
1. Why do readers read?
2. How do readers construct meaning?
Essential Vocabulary: textual evidence, inference, quote, explicit, theme, summarize, reflect, compare, contrast, interact
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 1 for Reading: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical
inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RL.5.1 Quote accurately from text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
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Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• that inferences are based on
• draw inferences from a
Students will…
• textual evidence
information from a story
text.
that is not explicitly stated.
• find and use details and
• inference
• quote accurately from a
examples from the text to
text when explaining and
• that specific events from a
• quote
support their inference.
text support inferences.
inferences.
• explicit
• find and use details and
examples from the text to
support their
understanding of the text.
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College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 2 for Reading: Determine central ideas of themes of a text and analyze their development;
summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
RL.5.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to
challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic: summarize the text.
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
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Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• that pieces of literature
• identify a theme.
Students will…
• theme
contain a central idea or
• identify how a speaker in a
theme.
• identify the theme of a
• summarize
poem reflects upon a topic.
story, drama, or poem.
• that character’s actions
• reflect
• analyze character’s actions
develop the theme.
• create a summary
in relation to the theme.
statement using the main
• that a summary is limited
• recognize how characters in
ideas and relevant details
to the big ideas.
a story or drama respond to
from the text.
challenges.
• summarize a text by
synthesizing key points.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 3 for Reading: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over
the course of a text.
RL.5.3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g. how
characters interact).
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
Students will know…
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Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• that characters, settings and
• identify similarities and
Students will…
• compare
events can be compared to
differences
each other.
between characters,
• describe a character based
• contrast
settings and events.
on thoughts, words, and
• that characters, settings and
• interact
actions using relevant
events can be contrasted to
• use specific details to
details to support their
each other.
support conclusions.
characterizations.
• that readers compare and
• identify the settings and
contrast to deepen their
describe their relevance
understanding.
using details from the
story.
• identify key events of a
story using specific details.
explain how characters,
settings, and key events
interact in a piece of
literature.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Fifth Grade Reading Standards for Literature Text: Craft and Structure
Essential Questions:
• How does word choice impact the overall meaning of the text?
• How does the author’s use of structure affect the meaning of the text?
• How does the author’s point of view and purpose shape and direct the text?
Essential Vocabulary: figurative language, literal language, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, synonyms, antonyms, stanza, chapter, scene,
structure, culture, perspective, free verse
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 4 for Reading: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining
technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
RL.5.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language, such as metaphors and similes.
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
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Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• use context clues to
• that an author’s choice of
Students will…
determine the meaning of
words and phrases affects
• figurative language
unknown words.
the meaning and tone of a
• distinguish between literal
• literal language
piece.
and nonliteral language.
• recognize figurative
• simile
language and analyze its
• that words and phrases
• determine the meaning of
• metaphor
meaning.
carry meaning beyond their
phrases as used in fourth
• onomatopoeia
literal
definitions.
grade text.
•
use synonyms and
• synonyms
antonyms to develop word
• antonyms
knowledge.
• identify simile and
metaphor.
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College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 5 for Reading: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs,
and larger portions of the text ( e.g. a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
RL.5.5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
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Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• describe how chapters,
• that chapters, scenes, and
Students will…
scenes, or stanzas fit into
stanzas have a logical
• stanza
the overall structure of a
sequence which guides the
• compare and contrast the
• free verse
story.
reader through the piece.
text structure of different
• chapter
types of text.
• scene
Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 •
use the appropriate
• structure
terminology when writing
or speaking to describe the
type of text.
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 6 for Reading: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
(IEFA)RL.5.6: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described, including perspectives of American
Indians.
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
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Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• identify the narrator’s or
• that a narrator’s point of
Students will…
speaker’s point of view.
view influences the telling
• culture
of
the
story.
• identify a first person point
• describe how the speaker’s
• perspective
of view and a third person
point of view influences the
• that cultural background,
point of view in a story.
story.
like the American Indian’s,
may influence a person’s
• identify key words used to
• evaluate a text based on the
point of view.
differentiate between first
narrator’s point of view.
and third person points of
view.
• compare and contrast
points of view in multiple
stories including those by
and about American
Indians.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Fifth Grade Reading Standards for Literature: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Essential Questions:
• How does analyzing diverse media help us to build our own knowledge?
• How does the use of evidence impact the author’s claim?
• How does analyzing more than one text help us to interpret the author’s intent and build our knowledge?
Essential Vocabulary: multimedia, tone, genre, traditional, contemporary, mysteries, adventures
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 7 for Reading: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
RL.5.7: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e. g. graphic novel, multimedia
presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, and poem).
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
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Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• examine visual and
• that visual and multimedia
Students will…
multimedia elements to
elements enhance the text.
• multimedia
explain how they
• compare and contrast
• tone
contribute to the meaning,
various presentations of
tone, or beauty of the text.
text.
• assess how the various
presentations help them
comprehend the text
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College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 8 for Reading: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the
validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
RL.5.8: (This standard is not applicable to literature)
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 9 for Reading: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build
knowledge or to compare the approaches the author takes.
(IEFA) RL.5.9 Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e. g., traditional and contemporary stories by and about American Indians,
mysteries, and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
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Students
will
know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• that themes and topics of
• recognize similarities and
Students will…
stories within the same
• genre
differences in themes and
genre, such as American
• compare and contrast text
• traditional
topics when reading
literature,
can
be
compared
according to theme and
• contemporary
stories of the same genre
and contrasted.
topics.
• mysteries
including stories by and
• identify patterns of events
• adventures
about American Indians.
in stories, myths, and
traditional literature from
different cultures,
including American
Indians.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Fifth Grade Reading Standards for Literature: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Essential Questions:
• How does reading add meaning to your life?
• How do readers adapt when text becomes more complex?
Essential Vocabulary:
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 10 for Reading: Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently
and proficiently
RL.5.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text
complexity band independently and proficiently.
Grade 5 Enduring Understandings
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Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• read a variety of self• that reading text
Students will…
selected and assigned text
independently and
at the 4-5 complexity band.
proficiently involves
• read a variety of selfappropriate
text
and
use
of
selected and assigned text
• read and comprehend text
strategies.
at the 4-5 complexity band.
with steadily increasing
complexity .
• that reading all types of
• read and comprehend text
literature increases
with steadily increasing
comprehension and fluency
complexity with
at their grade level.
scaffolding as needed at the
high end range.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013