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
- absent
- correct
- education
- French
- geometry
- homeschooling
- music
- private
- public
- repeated
- Spanish
- substitute
Week 2
Back to School 2
- art
- course
- fifth
- geography
- graduate
- math
- principal
- pupil
- science
- students
- tutor
- underline
Week 3
Calendar
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
Week 4
Human Body
- ankle
- artery
- bladder
- circulatory
- elbow
- jaw
- kidney
- knee
- knuckle
- muscle
- organ
- vein
Week 5
Numbers
- billion
- double
- dozen
- duplicate
- increase
- multiple
- negative
- none
- numeral
- positive
- quadruple
- several
Week 6
How to Act
- absence
- ambassador
- anticipate
- aspect
- bashful
- compassion
- diplomatic
- financial
- reality
- tactics
- tragedy
- transported
Week 7
Changing Words
- resist
- irresistible
- violate
- inviolate
- grave
- gravity
- heir
- inheritance
- contempt
- contemptuous
Week 8
Challenging Words 1
- usually
- money
- cover
- piece
- happen
- happy
- full
- suddenly
- clothes
- region
Week 9
Challenging Words 2
- cried
- produce
- special
- because
- edge
- opinion
- instruct
- frighten
- instrument
- afternoon
Week 10
Challenging Words 3
- evidence
- display
- arrange
- period
- should
- alien
- surprise
- interest
- decide
- display
Week 11
Challenging Words 4
- wonderful
- iron
- system
- probably
- written
- vision
- amazing
- parade
- govern
- equipment
Week 12
Winter
- freezing
- frost
- gloves
- holiday
- iceberg
- jacket
- penguin
- scarf
- season
- shiver
- shovel
- skiing
Week 13
Weather
- breeze
- climate
- cloudy
- conditions
- foggy
- frost
- humid
- lightning
- major
- partly
Week 14
Weather 2
- predict
- rainfall
- record
- storm
- sunny
- thunder
- tomorrow
- umbrella
- weather
- windy
Week 15
Water
- evaporation
- transpiration
- vapor
- steam
- droplets
- atmosphere
- liquid
- mist
- weather
- clouds
Week 16
Water 2
- Snowing
- sleet
- drizzle
- runoff
- stream
- groundwater
- aquifer
- glacier
- hail
- hurricane
Week 17
2D Shapes
- circle
- oval
- ellipse
- triangle
- square
- rectangle
- rhombus
- kite
- quadrilateral
- parallelogram
Week 18
2D, 3D, and Triangle Shapes
- hexagon
- octagon
- trapezoid
- cube
- cone
- sphere
- cylinder
- prism
- acute
- obtuse
Week 19
Planets
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
Week 20
Space
- eclipse
- planets
- moon
- galaxy
- stars
- force
- gravity
- rotation
- space
- solar
Week 21
Produce
- apples
- banana
- cherry
- cucumber
- grapefruit
- lemon
- mango
- orange
- pear
- plum
Week 22
Produce 2
- apricot
- blueberries
- citrus
- grapes
- kiwi
- lime
- nectarine
- peaches
- raspberry
- tangerine
Week 23
Geography
- Antarctica
- Australia
- Canada
- equator
- geography
- hemisphere
- Japanese
- latitude
- longitude
- Washington
Week 24
Multiplication & Division
- approximate
- divided
- divisible
- estimate
- exponent
- factorization
- multiply
- product
- questions
- quotient
Week 25
Europe
- accent
- British
- England
- Europe
- fluent
- France
- French
- Germany
- Greek
- Spain
- translation
- Italy
Week 26
Dance
- break
- choreography
- compete
- competition
- flexible
- position
- practice
- rehearse
- stretched
- trophy
Week 27
Symbols
- apostrophe
- comma
- decode
- exclamation
- gesture
- hyphen
- indicate
- parentheses
- period
- quotation
Week 28
Vacation
- camera
- cruise
- departure
- direct
- holiday
- journey
- luggage
- passport
- paradise
- tropical