What Language Arts Should a 5th Grader Know?
This year, students will be learning new language arts skills as well as building their knowledge and mastery on previously learned concepts. In order to do that, students should be comfortable reading and answering questions on a wide variety of texts in a number of different themes and topics. In addition, their writing skills should allow them to create concrete ideas complete with supporting details.
Typically, fifth grade language arts students should be able to:
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
Identify and summarize the theme/main idea of a story
Decode words using prefixes and suffixes
Reading Goals/Objectives
In fifth grade, students read a mix of literary and informational texts to strengthen their reading fluency and comprehension skills as well as expand their vocabulary.
Below are just some of the reading goals that fifth grade language arts activities should help your child achieve.
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 skills will continue to be polished and built upon this year. A fifth grade language arts curriculum will help students learn and master tons of new writing concepts including the following:
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
Writing Goals/Objectives
Grammar Goals/Objectives
Fifth grade language arts activities should provide students with plenty of opportunities to learn and practice new grammar skills in order to enhance their writing and communication. Below are some of the grammar goals and objectives that a fifth grade language arts curriculum should help your child achieve.
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
Fifth grade language arts continues to build on the language, vocabulary, writing and reading comprehension skills that students have been learning throughout elementary school. This year, students will learn grade-appropriate vocabulary and expand their knowledge on topics like synonyms, antonyms, prefixes and suffixes, just to name a few. In addition, they will learn a number of grammar skills including the correct use of perfect verb tenses, correlative conjunctions, transitions, and more.