Gold Ridge Elementary

Essential Standards – 5^th Grade

2007-2008

Below are the Essential Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics that are the focus for teaching and learning for each trimester:

Trimester 1 – 1^st Benchmark

English Language Arts

Word Analysis

• I can explain common synonyms, antonyms, and homographs.

Comprehension

• I can find main ideas by finding the evidence that supports those ideas.

Writing

• I use a colon to separate hours and minutes.
• I use quotation marks correctly:

- around spoken words

- titles of poems, songs, short stories, and so forth.

• I use correct capitalization: proper nouns, beginnings of sentences, titles.
• I wrote multiple paragraph compositions which include narratives,

response to literature, research reports and persuasive writing.

Mathematics

Number Sense

· I can calculate and check the reasonableness of my answers when I: add, subtract, multiply, and divide with decimals.

· I am proficient at dividing, including division with decimals and 2-digit divisors.

Algebra & Functions

• I use a letter to represent an unknown number.
• I write simple algebraic expressions and solve equations with one variable.

Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability

• I compute and compare simple examples of mean, median, and mode.

Gold Ridge Elementary

Essential Standards – 5^th Grade

2007-2008

Below are the Essential Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics that are the focus for teaching and learning for each trimester:

Trimester 2 – 2^nd Benchmark

English Language Arts

Word Analysis

• I can figure out the meaning of new words by using word origins.
• I can figure out the meaning of complex words by using Greek and Latin roots and affixes.

Comprehension

• I can tell the difference between facts, supported inferences, and opinion in what I read.
• I can explain that theme refers to the meaning or moral of a selection and recognize themes in my reading.

Writing

• I identify and correctly use verbs and modifiers that are often misused.
• I write multiple-paragraph narratives that include:

- strong situations or plots

- descriptive settings

- strong endings.

Mathematics

Number Sense

• I interpret percents as part of a hundred.
• I find equivalent decimals, percents, and fractions.
• I calculate a percent of a whole number.
• I list the prime factors of all numbers through 50 and write them as products using exponents when necessary (24=2x2x2x3=2 x3).
• I can calculate and check the reasonableness of my answers when I add, subtract, multiply and divide with positive and negative integers.
• I solve simple and real world problems that involve adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers. I put my answers in simplest form.
• I calculate and solve problems using multiplication and division of fractions.

Algebra and Functions

· I find and graph ordered pairs in the four quadrants of a coordinate plane.

· I solve and write equations involving linear functions with integer values, and then graph the resulting ordered pairs on a grid.

Gold Ridge Elementary

Essential Standards – 5^th Grade

2007-2008

Below are the Essential Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics that are the focus for teaching and learning for each trimester:

Trimester 3 – 3^rd Benchmark

English Language Arts

Word Analysis

• I can explain the meaning of literary devices such as similes, metaphors, imagery, etc.

Comprehension

• I can use evidence from the text and my own knowledge to make inferences (read between the lines), conclusions or generalizations.
• I can contrast the differences between characters in a work of fiction and discuss how it affects the plot or theme.

Writing

• I can identify and correctly use:

- prepositional phrases

- appositives

- independent & dependent clauses

• I use transitions and conjunctions to connect ideas.
• I use correct spelling.
• I locate relevant information in a text by using organization features (e.g., citations, end notes, bibliographic references).
• To improve my writing I edit/revise by adding, deleting, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences.

Mathematics

Measurement & Geometry

• I know the area of a rectangle therefore I can find the formula for the area of a triangle and parallelogram.
• I construct a cube and rectangular box from two dimensional patterns and use these patterns to figure out the surface area of these objects.
• I use the appropriate units in common measuring systems to figure out the volume of rectangular solids.
• I identify angles, perpendicular & parallel lines, rectangles, and triangles.
• I measure & draw angles, perpendicular & parallel lines, rectangles, and triangles.
• I know that the sum of the angles of any triangle is 180 degrees and the sum of the angles of any quadrilateral is 360 degrees. I use this information to solve problems.