| Grade 5 | READING | Week Taught | Week Reviewed |
| Understanding and Using Literary Texts | |||
| 5.1.1 | Analyze literary texts to draw conclusions and make inferences. | ||
| 5.1.2 | Differentiate among the first-person, limited-omniscient (third person), and omniscient (third person) points of view. | ||
| 5.1.3 | Interpret devices of figurative language (including simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole) and sound devices (including onomatopoeia and alliteration). | ||
| 5.1.4 | Analyze literary texts to distinguish between direct and indirect characterization. | ||
| 5.1.5 | Understand the effect of an author’s craft—such as tone and the use of figurative language, dialogue, and imagery—on the meaning of literary texts. | ||
| 5.1.6 | Analyze the details that support the expression of the main idea in a given literary text. | ||
| 5.1.7 | Create responses to literary texts through a variety of methods such as writing, creative dramatics, and the visual and performing arts. | ||
| 5.1.8 | Carry out independent reading for extended periods of time to derive pleasure. | ||
| 5.1.9 | Exemplify the characteristics of types of fiction (including legends and myths) and types of nonfiction (including speeches and personal essays). | ||
| 5.1.10 | Understand the characteristics of poetry (including stanzas, rhyme schemes, and the use of repetition and refrains). | ||
| Understanding and Using Informational Texts | |||
| 5.2.1. | Summarize the central idea and supporting evidence of a given informational text. | ||
| 5.2.2 | Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions and make inferences. | ||
| 5.2.3 | Analyze a given text to detect author bias by locating indicators such as unsupported opinions. | ||
| 5.2.4 | Create responses to informational texts through a variety of methods such as drawings, written works, and oral presentations. | ||
| 5.2.5 | Carry out independent reading for extended periods of time to gain information. | ||
| 5.2.6 | Understand that titles, print styles, chapter headings, captions, subheadings, and white space provide information to the reader. | ||
| 5.2.7 | Use graphic features such as illustrations, graphs, charts, maps, diagrams, and graphic organizers as sources of information. | ||
| 5.2.8 | Use functional text features (including tables of contents, glossaries, indexes, and appendixes). | ||
| 5.2.9 | Predict events in informational texts on the basis of cause-and-effect relationships. | ||
| Building Vocabulary | |||
| 5.3.1 | Use context clues such as those that provide an example, a definition, or a restatement to generate the meanings of unfamiliar and multiple-meaning words. | ||
| 5.3.2 | Analyze the meaning of words by using a knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes. | ||
| 5.3.3 | Interpret the meaning of idioms and euphemisms encountered in texts. |