Learning Expectations
Fifth Grade

Language Arts

Reading :

• Uses a variety of decoding and word analysis strategies
• Uses a variety of comprehension strategies
• Makes inferences
• Summarizes main ideas and key points
• Understands story elements and their effect on the piece of literature (characters, setting, plot – conflict, obstacles, climax, resolution)
• Identifies literary techniques and devices and their effect (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia)
• Comprehends a variety of genres and understands their defining characteristics (adventure stories, realistic fiction, poetry, tall tales)
• Applies criteria to evaluate literary works
• Makes interpretive responses using text to text, text to self, and text to world connections
• Infers author’s audience and purpose

Writing:

• Writes expository (informative) pieces
• Writes persuasive pieces
• Writes personal narratives
• Writes fictional narratives
• Writes for a variety of audiences
• Applies the trait of idea in writing
• Applies the trait of organization in writing
• Applies the trait of word choice in writing
• Applies the trait of sentence fluency in writing (complete and compound sentences)
• Uses pre-writing strategies
• Revises and edits own writing
• Applies parts of speech correctly in writing (nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, conjunctions)
• Spells high frequency words correctly
• Uses spelling strategies to spell unfamiliar words correctly

Speaking & Listening:

• Delivers oral presentations

• Adapts oral communication for a variety of audiences and purposes
• Comprehends oral communications
• Uses active listening behaviors
• Participates effectively in discussion

Research:

• Uses a variety of informational sources
• Organizes information

 Mathematics

Problem Solving:

• Uses a variety of problem solving strategies for real world problems and situations
• Communicates and defends solution and process
• Reads and understands mathematical texts

Number Operations and Relationships:

• Understands the relationship between various rational numbers (fraction- decimal-percent)
• Understands the concept of the integers
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides whole numbers
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides decimals
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides fractions
• Understands inequalities
• Understands ratios and rates
• Solves problems involving number-theory concepts
• Selects and uses appropriate computational procedures with rational numbers
• Applies the skill of estimation

Geometry:

• Understands two- and three-dimensional figures
• Understands the transformation of figures and their effects
• Understands and uses a rectangular coordinate system

Measurement:

• Understands basic measurement facts, principles, and techniques
• Selects and uses appropriate units and tools to find measurements for real-world problems
• Determines measurements indirectly using estimation
• Converts units within a system

Statistics and Probability:

• Organizes and displays data on bar graphs, line graphs, and line plot graphs
• Interprets and analyzes information from organized data
• Compares data to generate, test and confirm and/or deny hypotheses
• Evaluates data for validity
• Understands the concept of probability

Algebraic Relationships:

• Uses appropriate symbolism when working with algebraic expressions
• Understands that a function is a relationship between the independent and dependent variable
• Writes linear equations to represent problem situations
• Recognizes and uses algebraic properties

 Science

Matter:

• Knows the physical and chemical properties of matter

• Knows the physical properties of matter as it relates to their states
• Knows that all substances do not react the same way to the same chemical test
• Knows how the particles are arranged in the different states of matter
• Knows the energies needed to cause physical interactions

Weather:

• Understands the relationship between the atmospheric factors and weather patterns
• Knows how materials are recycled through the water cycle, nitrogen cycle, and carbon dioxide cycle in the atmosphere
• Knows how weather patterns cause natural disasters
• Knows how weather disasters change the surface of the earth
• Knows the positive and negative impact of science and technology (Instructional Only)
• Knows the relationship between science and technology (Instructional Only)

Cells:

• Knows that all organisms have an organization
• Knows the structure of cells and that different cells have unique structures and functions
• Knows the difference between one-celled and multi-celled organisms

Science Investigations and Inquiry:

• Uses the scientific method to conduct investigations (PHEOCA)

• Communicates results from scientific investigations

Science History:

• Knows how things studied in science can be classified by common themes, models, and/or systems
• Knows historical people that influenced major discoveries
• Uses a variety of sources to research scientific discoveries
• Uses scientific evidence to defend or take a position on an issue

Social Studies

Geography- Map Skills:

• Knows the location of the regions, states, and countries, major bodies of water and mountain ranges
• Creates maps

Geography- Natural Resources:

• Uses a variety of maps, globes, and pictures to gather and compare information
• Gathers information from a variety of sources
• Knows the natural resource bases of the world (Specifically in the United States)
• Knows how current global issues are related to the interaction among people, places, and environments

Economics:

• Understands the basic economic concepts
• Understands Wisconsin’s role in the national and global markets

Political Science:

• Understands the system of checks and balances of the three branches of governments
• Understands the division of powers in the three levels of government
• Knows that advocates participate in public policy debates

Behavioral Science:

• Knows that many factors influence learning
• Knows factors that influence individual identity and development
• Knows how the needs of individuals and society are met
• Knows how the media influences decision-making
• Knows that differences in cultures may lead to understanding or misunderstanding among people

Pre-History (pre-6000 BC)

• Knows how the past can be interpreted using a variety of sources
• Knows how history can be organized in a variety of ways
• Understands how the earliest groups of people survived, thrived, or became extinct
• Understands the difference between how people lived in pre-historical times and in historical time periods