English Preface Grade 5

Language
1. Conduct structured small and large group discussion.

Composition
1. Write with focus, logical development, and supporting detail.
2. Select appropriate genres, reasoning, and style for specific audiences.
3. Demonstrate the ability to revise writing by improving organization, content, paragraph development, level of detail, style, tone, and word choice.
4. Use appropriate standard English conventions, such as structure, usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
5. Use study skills such as questions, notes, summarizing, précis writing, and outlining.
6. Use open-ended research questions, sources of information, and appropriate research methods.
7. Develop and use rhetorical, logical, and stylistic criteria for final versions of written projects.

	Elaborate ideas in presentations or discussions by providing relevant and specific details.
	Understand analogies.
	Use guide words to locate entries in dictionary, phone book, thesaurus, etc.
	Demonstrate an understanding of subject/verb agreement.
	Use correctly singular, plural forms of nouns.
	Use correctly the comparative/superlative forms of adjectives.

	Demonstrate ability to organize notes taken for research projects (any method - outline, graphic organizer, web).
	Produce multi-paragraph compositions of the following types:

- Response to literature (understanding).

- Report (description).

- Narrative (sequence/directions).

- Narrative (personal experience).

Use the following English language conventions:

- Concluding paragraph or statement.

- Consistent verb tense.

- Correct use of helping verbs.

- Summarizing.

- Concise writing.

- Use of specific and sufficient details to support general statements.

Edit and revise in terms of achievement of purpose, spelling and usage, level of detail.

	Recognize dialect in a story.
	Recognize and give examples of fiction genres.
	Describe author's point of view/purpose.
	Demonstrate an understanding of literary elements: problem, solution, climax.
	Explain what a character values, based on words and actions.
	Use text/format clues to understand content materials (italics, bold print, headings, subheadings, marginal notes).
	Recognize cue words for sequencing, comparison, and classification patterns of expository text.
	Identify main idea/topic, explicit or implicit.
	Follow directions such as those given in a recipe

	Evaluate appropriate websites for research.
	Identify and explain media manipulation, i.e., exaggeration, misleading graphs.
	Identify and explain animation techniques.

Literature
1. Demonstrate an ability to decode, understand, and use new words.
2. Identify main idea in what is heard, read, or viewed.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of different genres.
4. Identify, analyze, and apply theme, using evidence to support ideas.
5. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure and elements of fiction, using evidence to support ideas.
6. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure and elements of nonfiction, using evidence to support ideas.
7. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure, elements, and theme of poetry, using evidence to support ideas.
8. Identify and analyze how words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone.
9. Compare/contrast a variety of cultural myths and narratives.
10. Interpret literary works, nonfiction, film, and media.
11. Present effective dramatic readings, recitations, and performances for a variety of audiences.
Media
1. Obtain information from a variety of media and evaluate the quality.
2. Explain how traditional forms are modified for electronic media.
3. Design and create coherent media productions with focus, detail, and consideration of audience and purpose.