Analyze plot elements, including rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
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United States Curriculum
Grade 5 English Language Arts and Reading
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Compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft
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Create mental images to deepen understanding
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Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by: (i) decoding words with consonant changes, including/t/ to/sh/ such as in select and selection and/k/ to/sh/ such as music
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Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales
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Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices achieves specific purposes
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Develop a bibliography
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Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension
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Discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning
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Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts
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Evaluate details read to determine key ideas
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Explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions
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Explain the author's purpose and message within a text
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Explain the purpose of hyperbole, stereotyping, and anecdote
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Generate and clarify questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry
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Give an organized presentation employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, natural gestures, and conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively
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Identify the meaning of and use words with affixes such as trans-, super-, -ive, and -logy and roots such as geo and photo
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Listen actively to interpret verbal and non-verbal messages, ask relevant questions, and make pertinent comments
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Recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative text by: (i) identifying the claim; (ii) explaining how the author has used facts for or against an argument; and (iii)
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Retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order
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Use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, and word origin
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Write legibly in cursive
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