Appendix: Implementing Grade 5 English Language Arts Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences. Students select details from the novel to support claims about authority, motivation, and resistance.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2: Determine a theme and summarize the text. Students examine themes of freedom, loyalty, destiny, courage, and responsibility while differentiating analysis from plot summary.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3: Compare and contrast characters, settings, or events. Students analyze how different characters respond to the same source of power and how those responses change over time.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6: Describe how a narrator’s speaker’s point of view influences events. Students compare the language of leaders with the experiences of those they control.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1: Write opinion pieces supported by reasons and information. Petitions and public appeals require a clear claim, evidence, and call to action.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3: Write narratives using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear sequences. Character letters use first-person voice and imagined experienced grounded in the text.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4: Produce clear and coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Students vary their tone across private letters, petitions, and public appeals.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5: Develop and strengthen writing through planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying an original/new approach.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.9: Draw evidence from literary texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.10: Write routinely over extended and shorter periods for a range of purposes and audiences.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1: Engage effectively in collaborative discussions, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.4: Report on a topic or present an opinion with logical sequencing and appropriate facts and details.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
CSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.6: Acquire and use appropriate academic and domain specific words, including authority, legitimacy, tyranny, conscience, and resistance.
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