Standard 2:
Learners write effectively for a variety of audiences, purposes, and
contexts.
Benchmark 8: The proficient writer uses writing as a
tool for learning throughout the curriculum.
The students:
- 1. Write notes and journals to record information.
LITERATURE GENRES
Standard 3:
Learners demonstrate knowledge of literature from a variety of cultures,
genres, and time periods.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge
of the effects of cultures on literature.
The students:
- 1. Recognize customs as expressed in literature from a variety of
cultures.
- 2. Relate literature from a variety of cultures to personal experiences.
Benchmark 2: The proficient reader identifies characteristics
of a wide variety of literary genres in various formats.
The students:
- 1. Identify fiction and nonfiction and a variety of genres, such as
folklore (fairy tale, folk tale, and tall tale), poetry, animal fantasy,
and informational text.
Benchmark 3: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge of the
effects of time periods on literature.
The students:
- 1. Distinguish between past and present settings.
LITERATURE RESPONSES
Standard 4:
Learners demonstrate skills needed to read and respond to literature.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader uses literary concepts
to interpret literature.
The students:
- 1. Identify and describe the main characters in narrative literature.
- 2. Restate the main idea in narrative literature.
- 3. Describe the setting in narrative literature.
- 4. Identify the problem and solution in narrative literature.
- 5. Identify the concept and supporting details in expository literature.
Benchmark 2: The proficient reader evaluates literature
with criteria based on purposes for reading and derived from time periods
and cultures.
The students:
- 1. Recognize connections between characters and events and people
and events in their lives.
- 2. Share responses with peers.
BY THE END OF FIFTH GRADE
READING
Standard 1:
Learners demonstrate skill in reading a variety of materials for a variety
of purposes.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader comprehends whole
pieces of narration, exposition, persuasion, and technical writing.
The students:
- 1. Identify a correct restatement of the main idea.
- 2. Identify details to support their understanding.
- 3. Identify author’s purpose.
- 4. Connect predictions with information read.
- 5. Identify characteristics of narrative text and expository text.
- 6. Reread as necessary for understanding.
- 7. Compare and contrast information in texts.
- 8. Link causes to effects.
- 9. Use the skills of skimming to get an overview of the text and scanning
to find specific information in the text.
- 10. Recognize problem and solution.
- 11. Use various parts of a book such as table of contents, appendix,
and glossary to locate information.
- 12. Identify text organizers such as headings, topic and summary sentences,
and graphic features.
Benchmark 2: The proficient reader decodes accurately and understands
new words in reading materials.
The students:
- 1. Use context clues such as definition, restatement, and example
to determine meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.
- 2. Use synonyms, antonyms, homographs, and homophones.
- 3. Use a dictionary or a glossary to determine the meaning of vocabulary.
- 4. Use phonetics including rimes (phonograms) and structural analysis
to determine meaning of unfamiliar words.
- 5. Identify figurative language (similes, metaphors, and idioms).
Benchmark 3: The proficient reader reads fluently.
The students:
- 1. Demonstrate rhythms of natural speech in oral reading.
- 3. Use vocabulary, punctuation, and sentence structure to assist in
reading fluency.
Benchmark 4: The proficient reader uses what he/she already knows
about the topic and the type of text to understand what is read.
The students:
- 1. Use patterns such as cause and effect and comparison and contrast
to understand expository text.
- 2. Use elements of story, such as setting, character and plot, to
understand narrative text.
- 3. Adapt how they read depending upon whether the material is a narrative
(story) or expository (informational) text.
- 4. Draw on past experiences to make connections to the text.
Benchmark 5: The proficient reader draws conclusions supported
by the text.
The students:
- 1. Identify common topics in different texts.
- 2. Draw conclusions from the text.
WRITING
Standard 2:
Learners write effectively for a variety of audiences, purposes, and
contexts.
Benchmark 8: The proficient writer uses writing as
a tool for learning throughout the curriculum.
The students:
- 1. Write notes, outlines, lab reports, journal entries, and research
reports while studying in content areas.
LITERATURE GENRES
Standard 3:
Learners demonstrate knowledge of literature from a variety of cultures,
genres, and time periods.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge
of the effects of cultures on literature.
The students:
- 1. Recognize the impact of culture on a character.
- 2. Compare and contrast customs and ideas within literature from a
variety of cultures.
Benchmark 2: The proficient reader identifies characteristics
of a wide variety of literary genres in various formats.
The students:
- 1. Identify fiction and nonfiction and a variety of genres, such as
folklore (fable and hero tale), fantasy, poetry, historical fiction,
realistic fiction, biography, and informational text.
Benchmark 3: The proficient reader demonstrates knowledge of the
effects of time periods on literature.
The students:
- 1. Distinguish between past, present, and future settings.
LITERATURE RESPONSE
Standard 4:
Learners demonstrate skills needed to read and respond to literature.
Benchmark 1: The proficient reader uses literary concepts
to interpret literature.
The students:
- 1. Identify elements of fiction and drama, such as character, setting,
plot, resolution, and theme.
- 2. Identify text structure in expository literature such as cause
and effect, comparison and contrast, description, sequence, and problem
and solution.
Benchmark 2: The proficient reader evaluates literature with criteria
based on purposes for reading and derived from time periods and cultures.
The students:
- 1. Explain connections between characters and events in literature
and people and events in their lives.
- 2. Compare responses within a group of peers.