5th Grade English Language Arts

Framework

Goals and Objectives
Concepts
  • Use pronouns in subjective and objective case
  • Use reference material such as dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses
  • Apply knowledge and information from texts to make inferences
  • Decode words using prefixes and suffixes
  • Identify and summarize the theme/main idea of a story
Reading
  • Summarize and paraphrase information from a text
  • Read and interpret charts, graphs and other graphic representations in a text
  • Analyze a writer’s point of view and compare points of view from various writers on the same topic

Writing

  • Use interjections, prepositions and conjunctions for more descriptive and elaborate writing
  • Understand each of the five stages of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
  • Write a narrative complete with an event, narrator and characters

Grammar

  • Use punctuation in titles correctly with proper capitalization, quotation marks, underscore, and italics
  • Use correlative conjunctions correctly in a sentence: not only/but also, either/or, neither/nor
  • Use perfect verb tense correctly and understand how they convey time of events

5th Grade Fluency

5th Grade Writing

5th Grade Vocabulary

28-Week Spelling Words List

These themed Grade 2 spelling words will help make spelling a little more interesting for your second grader

Week 1

Back to School
  1. absent
  2. correct
  3. education
  4. French
  5. geometry
  6. homeschooling
  7. music
  8. private
  9. public
  10. repeated
  11. Spanish
  12. substitute

Week 2

Back to School 2
    1. art
    2. course
    3. fifth
    4. geography
    5. graduate
    6. math
    7. principal
    8. pupil
    9. science
    10. students
    11. tutor
    12. underline

Week 3

 Calendar
  1. January
  2. February
  3. March
  4. April
  5. May
  6. June
  7. July
  8. August
  9. September
  10. October
  11. November
  12. December

Week 4

Human Body
  1. ankle
  2. artery
  3. bladder
  4. circulatory
  5. elbow
  6. jaw
  7. kidney
  8. knee
  9. knuckle
  10. muscle
  11. organ
  12. vein

Week 5

Numbers
  1. billion
  2. double
  3. dozen
  4. duplicate
  5. increase
  6. multiple
  7. negative
  8. none
  9. numeral
  10. positive
  11. quadruple
  12. several

Week 6

How to Act
  1. absence
  2. ambassador
  3. anticipate
  4. aspect
  5. bashful
  6. compassion
  7. diplomatic
  8. financial
  9. reality
  10. tactics
  11. tragedy
  12. transported

Week 7

Changing Words
  1. resist
  2. irresistible
  3. violate
  4. inviolate
  5. grave
  6. gravity
  7. heir
  8. inheritance
  9. contempt
  10. contemptuous

Week 8

Challenging Words 1
  1. usually
  2. money
  3. cover
  4. piece
  5. happen
  6. happy
  7. full
  8. suddenly
  9. clothes
  10. region

Week 9

Challenging Words 2
  1. cried
  2. produce
  3. special
  4. because
  5. edge
  6. opinion
  7. instruct
  8. frighten
  9. instrument
  10. afternoon

Week 10

Challenging Words 3
  1. evidence
  2. display
  3. arrange
  4. period
  5. should
  6. alien
  7. surprise
  8. interest
  9. decide
  10. display

Week 11

Challenging Words 4
  1. wonderful
  2. iron
  3. system
  4. probably
  5. written
  6. vision
  7. amazing
  8. parade
  9. govern
  10. equipment

Week 12

Winter
  1. freezing
  2. frost
  3. gloves
  4. holiday
  5. iceberg
  6. jacket
  7. penguin
  8. scarf
  9. season
  10. shiver
  11. shovel
  12. skiing

Week 13

Weather
  1. breeze
  2. climate
  3. cloudy
  4. conditions
  5. foggy
  6. frost
  7. humid
  8. lightning
  9. major
  10. partly

Week 14

Weather 2
  1. predict
  2. rainfall
  3. record
  4. storm
  5. sunny
  6. thunder
  7. tomorrow
  8. umbrella
  9. weather
  10. windy

Week 15

Water
  1. evaporation
  2. transpiration
  3. vapor
  4. steam
  5. droplets
  6. atmosphere
  7. liquid
  8. mist
  9. weather
  10. clouds

Week 16

Water 2
  1. Snowing
  2. sleet
  3. drizzle
  4. runoff
  5. stream
  6. groundwater
  7. aquifer
  8. glacier
  9. hail
  10. hurricane

Week 17

2D Shapes
  1. circle
  2. oval
  3. ellipse
  4. triangle
  5. square
  6. rectangle
  7. rhombus
  8. kite
  9. quadrilateral
  10. parallelogram

Week 18

2D, 3D, and Triangle Shapes
  1. hexagon
  2. octagon
  3. trapezoid
  4. cube
  5. cone
  6. sphere
  7. cylinder
  8. prism
  9. acute
  10. obtuse

Week 19

Planets
  1. Mercury
  2. Venus
  3. Earth
  4. Mars
  5. Jupiter
  6. Saturn
  7. Uranus
  8. Neptune

Week 20

Space
  1. eclipse
  2. planets
  3. moon
  4. galaxy
  5. stars
  6. force
  7. gravity
  8. rotation
  9. space
  10. solar

Week 21

Produce
  1. apples
  2. banana
  3. cherry
  4. cucumber
  5. grapefruit
  6. lemon
  7. mango
  8. orange
  9. pear
  10. plum

Week 22

Produce 2
  1. apricot
  2. blueberries
  3. citrus
  4. grapes
  5. kiwi
  6. lime
  7. nectarine
  8. peaches
  9. raspberry
  10. tangerine

Week 23

Geography
  1. Antarctica
  2. Australia
  3. Canada
  4. equator
  5. geography
  6. hemisphere
  7. Japanese
  8. latitude
  9. longitude
  10. Washington

Week 24

Multiplication & Division
  1. approximate
  2. divided
  3. divisible
  4. estimate
  5. exponent
  6. factorization
  7. multiply
  8. product
  9. questions
  10. quotient

Week 25

Europe
  1. accent
  2. British
  3. England
  4. Europe
  5. fluent
  6. France
  7. French
  8. Germany
  9. Greek
  10. Spain
  11. translation
  12. Italy

Week 26

Dance
  1. break
  2. choreography
  3. compete
  4. competition
  5. flexible
  6. position
  7. practice
  8. rehearse
  9. stretched
  10. trophy

Week 27

Symbols
  1. apostrophe
  2. comma
  3. decode
  4. exclamation
  5. gesture
  6. hyphen
  7. indicate
  8. parentheses
  9. period
  10. quotation

Week 28

Vacation
  1. camera
  2. cruise
  3. departure
  4. direct
  5. holiday
  6. journey
  7. luggage
  8. passport
  9. paradise
  10. tropical

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