SCOPE AND SEQUENCE/ 5TH GRADE READING
FIRST SIX WEEKS
TEKS
Vocabulary Development
Students understand new vocabulary and use it when
reading and writing.
5.2B Use context (eg. in-sentence restatement) to
determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or
multiple meaning words
5.2D Identify and explain the meaning of common
idioms, adages, and other sayings
Context clues
Idioms/adages
Word parts/suffixes
5.2A Determine the meaning of grade-level academic
English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other
linguistic roots and affixes
Comprehension/ Fiction
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of
fiction and provide evidence from text to support
their understanding.
5.6B Explain the roles and functions of characters in
various plots, including their relationships and conflicts
Character Analysis
Inference
Figure 19D Make inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding
Summarize
Figure 19E Summarize and paraphrase texts in ways
that maintain meaning and logical order within a text
and across texts
Comprehension / Expository
Students analyze, make inferences and draw
conclusions about expository text and provide
evidence from text to support their understanding.
5.11A Summarize the main ideas and supporting
details in text in ways that maintain meaning and
logical order
Main Idea / Detail
Use multiple text features and
graphics
5.11D Use multiple text features and graphics to gain
an overview of the contents of text and to locate
information
Summarize
Figure 19E Summarize and paraphrase text in ways
that maintain meaning and logical order within a text
and across texts
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE/ 5TH GRADE READING
SECOND SIX WEEKS
TEKS
Vocabulary Development
Students understand new vocabulary and use it when
reading and writing.
5.2A Determine the meaning of grade-level academic
English words derived from Latin, Greek, and other
linguistic roots or affixes
Word parts/ Prefixes and suffixes
Context Clues
5.2B Use context (eg., in-sentence restatement) to
determine or calrify the meaning of unfamiliar or
multiple meaning words
Use of dictionary, glossary, thesaurus
to determine meaning, pronunciation,
syllabication, parts of speech, and
word choice
5.2E Use a dictionary, a glossary, or a thesaurus to
determine the meanings , syllabication,
pronunciations, alternate word choices, and parts of
speech of words.
Analogies with synonyms and
antonyms
5.2C Produce analogies with know antonyms and
synonyms
Comprehension/Culture and History
Students analyze, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the author’s purpose in cultural,
historical, and contemporary contexts and provide
evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
Draw conclusions/author’s purpose
5.10A Draw conclusions from the information
presented by an author and evaluate how well the
author’s purpose was achieved
Comprehensions / Theme and Genre
Students analyze, make inferences and draw
conclusions about theme and genre in different
cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and
provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
Compare and contrast the themes or
moral lessons of several works of
fiction from various cultures
5.3A Compare and contrast the themes or moral
lessons of several works of fiction from various
cultures
Describe the phenomena explained in
myth origins from various cultues
5.3B Describe the phenomena explained in origin
myths from various cultures
Effect of historical even or movement
on theme
5.3C Explain the effect of a historical event or
movement on the theme of a work of literature
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE/ 5TH GRADE READING
THIRD SIX WEEKS
TEKS
Vocabulary Development
Students understand new vocabulary and use it when
reading and writing.
5.2A Determine the meaning of grade level academic
English words derived from Latin, Greek, and other
linguistic roots and affixes
Review vocabulary TEKS
Comprehension/Fiction
Explain how the incident gives rise to
future events
Explain roles and function of
characters in plots
5.2E Use a dictionary , glossary, or a thesaurus to
determine the meanings, syllabication, pronunciations,
alternate word choice, and parts of speech of words.
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of
fiction and provide evidence from text to support
their understanding.
5.6A Describe incidents that advance the story or
novel, explaining how each incident gives rise to or
foreshadows future events
5.6B Explain the roles and functions of characters in
various plots, including their relationships and conflicts
Explain different forms of third person 5.6C Explain the different forms of third-person points
point of view in stories
of view in stories
Comprehension/ Expository
Students analyze, make inferences and draw
conclusions about expository text and provide
evidence from text to support their understanding.
Determine facts and verify
5.11B Determine the facts in text and verify them
through established methods
Analyze and organize patterns of text
and how it influences relationships
among ideas
5.11C Analyze how the organizational pattern of a text
(eg., cause and effect, compare and contrast,
sequential order, logical order, classification schemes)
influences the relationships among ideas
Synthesize and make connections
from text of similar/different genres
5.11E Synthesize and make logical connectons
between ideas within a text and across two or three
texts representing similar or different genres
Use multiple text features and
graphics
11.D Use multiple text features and graphics to gain
an overview of the contents of text and to locate
information
Figure 19D Make connections (eg. thematic links,
author analysis) between and across multiple texts
Make connections between and
across various texts
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE/ 5TH GRADE READING
FOURTH SIX WEEKS
TEKS
Vocabulary Development
Students understand new vocabulary and use it when
reading and writing.
Review Vocabulary TEKS
5.2A Determine the meaning of grade level academic
English words derived from Latin, Greek, and other
linguistic roots and affixes
5.2B Context (eg., in sentence restatement) to
determine or clarify the meaning of a unfamiliar or
multiple meaning words
5.2C Produce analogies with know antonyms and
synonyms
5.2D Identify and explain the meaning of common
idioms, adages, and other sayings
Comprehension/Poetry
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of
poetry and provide evidence from text to support
their understanding.
Analyze how poets use sound effects
to reinforce meaning in poems
5.4A Analyze how poets use sound effects (eg.,
alliteration, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme
scheme) to reinforce meaning in poems.
Comprehension/ Sensory
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about how an author’s sensory language
creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence
from text to support their understanding.
Evaluate the impact of sensory details
imagery and figurative language
5.8A Evaluate the impact of sensory details, imagery,
and figurative language in literary text
Comprehension/ Persuasive
Students analyze, make inferences and draw
conclusions about persuasive text and provide
evidence from text to support their analysis.
Author viewpoint and explain basic
relationship among ideas in argument
5.12A Identify the author’s viewpoint or position and
explain the basic relationships among ideas (eg.,
parallelism, comparison, casuality) in the argument
Recognize exaggerated, contradictory, 5.12B Recognize exaggerated, contradictory, or
or misleading statements in text
misleading statements in text
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE/ 5TH GRADE READING
FIFTH SIX WEEKS
TEKS
Comprehension /Theme and Genre
Student’s analyze , make inferences and draw
conclusions about theme and genre in different
cultural, historical, and comtemporary contexts and
provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
Describe the phenomena explained in
origin myths from various cultures
5.3B Describe the phenomena explained in origin
myths from various cultures
Comprehension / Drama
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the structure and elements of
drams and provide evidence from text to support
their understanding.
Analyze similarities and differences
between an original text and its
dramatic adaptation
5.5A Analyze the similarities an differences between
an original text and it dramatic adaptation
Comprehension / Nonfiction
Students understand, make inferences and draw
conclusions about the varied structural patterns and
features of literary nonfiction and respond by
providing evidence from text to support their
understanding.
Biography /autobiography – identify
literary language and devices used
including author’s present major
events in their life
5.7A Identify the literary language and devices used in
biographies and autobiographies, including how
authors present major events in a person’s life
Comprehension/ Procedural
Students understand how to glean and use
information in procedural texts and documents.
Interpret details from procedural text
to complete a task, solve a problem,
or perform procedures
5.13A Interpret details from procedural text to
complete a task, solve a problem, or perform
procedures
Reading/ Media Literacy
Students use comprehension skills to analyze how
words, images, graphics, and sound work in various
forms to impact meaning.
Identify point of view in media
5.14C Identify point of view in media presentations
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE/ 5TH GRADE READING
SIX SIXTH WEEKS
TEKS
Comprehension/ Procedural
Students understand how to glean and use
information in procedural texts and documents.
Interpret factual or quantitative
information presented in maps,
charts, illustrations, graphs, timelines,
tables, and diagrams
5.13B Interpret factual or quantitative information
presented in maps, charts, illustrations, graphs,
timelines, tables, and diagrams
Reading /Media Literacy
Students use comprehension skills to analyze how
words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in
various forms to impact meaning.
Explain how messages conveyed in
various forms of media are presented
differently
5.14A Explain how messages conveyed in various
forms of media are presented differently (eg.,
documentaries, online information, televised news)
Consider the difference in techniques
used in media
5.14B Consider the difference in techniques used in
media (eg., commercials , documentaries, news)
Analyze digital media venues
5.14D Analyze various digital media venues for levels
of formality and informality