This document provides an overview of literacy skills and strategies taught in 5th grade, including writing, speaking, listening, and reading. It outlines how teachers model and teach different types of writing, have students work on writing pieces through a writing process, and engage in collaborative conversations. For reading, 5th graders should be able to identify main ideas and supporting details, summarize texts, and read complex texts independently. They continue learning decoding strategies for multisyllabic words. Speaking and listening involves discussion, linking ideas, and sharing roles in conversations.
This document provides an overview of literacy skills and strategies taught in 5th grade, including writing, speaking, listening, and reading. It outlines how teachers model and teach different types of writing, have students work on writing pieces through a writing process, and engage in collaborative conversations. For reading, 5th graders should be able to identify main ideas and supporting details, summarize texts, and read complex texts independently. They continue learning decoding strategies for multisyllabic words. Speaking and listening involves discussion, linking ideas, and sharing roles in conversations.
This document provides an overview of literacy skills and strategies taught in 5th grade, including writing, speaking, listening, and reading. It outlines how teachers model and teach different types of writing, have students work on writing pieces through a writing process, and engage in collaborative conversations. For reading, 5th graders should be able to identify main ideas and supporting details, summarize texts, and read complex texts independently. They continue learning decoding strategies for multisyllabic words. Speaking and listening involves discussion, linking ideas, and sharing roles in conversations.
This document provides an overview of literacy skills and strategies taught in 5th grade, including writing, speaking, listening, and reading. It outlines how teachers model and teach different types of writing, have students work on writing pieces through a writing process, and engage in collaborative conversations. For reading, 5th graders should be able to identify main ideas and supporting details, summarize texts, and read complex texts independently. They continue learning decoding strategies for multisyllabic words. Speaking and listening involves discussion, linking ideas, and sharing roles in conversations.
narrative, informational, Speaking and Listening and opinion writing to Students at this level should students and confer with engage in collaborative conver- them to improve on their pieces as they progress sations (such as book groups, through the literature circles, buddy reading), writing process. and develop skills in listening Writing Process Stages closely and group discussion. Parent Roadmap They share the roles of partici- Prewriting: Time to think pant, leader, and observer. Stu- To Literacy Drafting : Time to write it dents also summarize text. down Grade 5 Revising: Time to improve my writing Editing: Time to make things correct Publishing: Time to share my writing Discussion Guide: Look at the speaker. Strategies for Take turns. Reading, Writing, Link ideas to the speakers Speaking and idea. Listening Share the floor. Reading In Grade 5 Close Reading Text Complexity Reading, Writing, and Students at this level should be Speaking are grounded in able to quote correctly from the text to explain what the text is Students read and comprehend evidence from the text. about and when drawing conclu- sions. Students must identify complex literary and two or more main ideas and find informational the most important details that strengthen these main ideas. texts independently and Reading Foundational They should also be able to proficiently. summarize the text in their own Students continue learning spe- words. cific strategies for decoding words in texts. They are required to apply the specific strategies for reading and spelling multi- syllabic words. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, Use questions/prompts such as: syllabication patterns, and mor- Can you tell me the reasons why phology (e.g., roots and affixes) you think? Show where you to read accurately unfamiliar linked your thinking to the text. Then Now multisyllabic words in context Can you find at least two of the and out of context. main ideas of this text and key Teachers read Teachers support details that support them? books to students students own Use prompts such as: Summarize the main points of or tell them what attempts to read Does that sound right? Does that the text. Can you tell me how these ideas, people, and events look right? Does that make sense? the books say challenging texts, are the same? Can you tell me when the books are and without telling how they are different? Show me in the text. Think about these challenging. them what the historical events. How they are books say. connected?