-Encourage your child to use the book trailers to select a first, second and third choice to read. Ask him/her to tell you why and how each video made a book sound interesting. Go to the library to check out and read those top choices.
-Call your child’s attention to symbols that represent Florida. Talk about what ideas are represented by the colors and objects in the state seal and what he/she thinks about why these were selected.
-Have your child keep a journal over summer vacation, while you do the same. Periodically read part of your journals to each other.
-Listen to an in-depth television news report on a topic that concerns your family
- Develop a question and carry out a poll among family, friends, neighbors and classmates and then organize and present the results
-Ask your child to help prepare meals that include reading directions and following them
-Provide opportunities for your child to produce written products, both in cursive handwriting and electronically
***Information can be found in the parent guides above***
Quarterly Learning Goals
Quarter 1
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in a 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.
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point (s).
Write a multi-paragraph opinion or informative/explanatory essay, based on multiple texts, which clearly states an opinion or topic. Essays should include main ideas that are supported with evidence (facts and details), elaboration, transitional devices, citations, precise vocabulary.
Write a narrative to develop real or imaginary events. Introduce narrator and/or characters, setting, and dialogue. Students should organize events in correct order utilizing characters' thoughts, actions, feelings and concrete words and phrases. Writing should also include sensory details to convey experiences to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Quarter 2
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point (s).
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
Write a multi-paragraph opinion or informative/explanatory essay, based on multiple texts, which clearly states an opinion or topic. Essays should include main ideas that are supported with evidence (facts and details), elaboration, transitional devices, citations, precise vocabulary.
Write a narrative to develop real or imaginary events. Introduce narrator and/or characters, setting, and dialogue. Students should organize events in correct order utilizing characters' thoughts, actions, feelings and concrete words and phrases. Writing should also include sensory details to convey experiences to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Quarter 3
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.
Describe how a narrator's or speakers point of view influences how events are described.
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text.
Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in a text.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Write a multi-paragraph opinion or informative/explanatory essay, based on multiple texts, which clearly states an opinion or topic. Essays should include main ideas that are supported with evidence (facts and details), elaboration, transitional devices, citations, precise vocabulary.
Write a narrative to develop real or imaginary events. Introduce narrator and/or characters, setting, and dialogue. Students should organize events in correct order utilizing characters' thoughts, actions, feelings and concrete words and phrases. Writing should also include sensory details to convey experiences to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Quarter 4
Focus on informative units and an opinion unit.
Write a multi-paragraph opinion or informative/explanatory essay, based on multiple texts, which clearly states an opinion or topic. Essays should include main ideas that are supported with evidence (facts and details), elaboration, transitional devices, citations, precise vocabulary.
Write a narrative to develop real or imaginary events. Introduce narrator and/or characters, setting, and dialogue. Students should organize events in correct order utilizing characters' thoughts, actions, feelings and concrete words and phrases. Writing should also include sensory details to convey experiences to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.