Here is what is covered in 5th grade English Language Arts.
Reading strategies
Main idea
Use key details to determine the main idea
Determine the main idea of a passage
Theme
Determine the themes of short stories
Author’s purpose and tone
Identify the purpose of a text
Which sentence is more formal?
Text structure
Determine the order of events in informational texts
Compare and contrast in informational texts
Match causes and effects in informational texts
Match problems with their solutions
Identify text structures
Sensory details
Sort sensory details
Identify sensory details
Literary devices
Identify similes and metaphors
Similes and metaphors with pictures
Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Point of view
Identify the narrative point of view
Compare and contrast points of view
Compare information from two texts
Inference
Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
Compare and contrast characters
Draw inferences from a text
Story elements
Identify story elements
Text features
Select and use text features
Visual elements
Compare mythological illustrations
Read graphic organizers
Poetry elements
Label the rhyme scheme
Identify elements of poetry
Literary texts
Read fantasy with illustrations
Read historical fiction
Read poetry
Informational texts
Read passages about animals
Read passages about art, music, and traditions
Read passages about famous places
Read passages about famous people
Read passages about business and technology
Read passages about science and nature
Writing strategies
Organizing writing
Put the sentences in order
Use coordinating conjunctions
Choose the best transition
Order items from most general to most specific
Organize information by main idea
Remove the sentence that does not belong
Introductions and conclusions
Choose the best topic sentence
Choose the best concluding sentence
Summarizing
Summarize a story
Developing and supporting arguments
Distinguish facts from opinions
Identify an author’s statement of opinion
Choose reasons to support an opinion
Identify supporting details in literary texts
Identify supporting details in informational texts
Descriptive details
Show character emotions and traits
Revise the sentence using a stronger verb
Add imagery to stories
Sentence variety
Create varied sentences based on models
Editing and revising
Use the correct frequently confused word
Correct errors with frequently confused words
Correct errors with signs
Research skills
Identify and correct plagiarism
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
Words with pre-
Words with re-
Words with sub-
Words with mis-
Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-
Words with -ful
Words with -less
Words with -able and -ible
Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning
Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech
Word pattern analogies
Word pattern sentences
Greek and Latin roots
Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings
Categories
Select the members of a group
Select the words that don’t belong
Synonyms and antonyms
Choose the synonym
Find synonyms in context
Choose the antonym
Find antonyms in context
Analogies
Analogies
Homophones
Homophones with pictures
Use the correct homophone
Multiple-meaning words
Multiple-meaning words with pictures
Which definition matches the sentence?
Which sentence matches the definition?
Idioms and adages
Determine the meaning of idioms from context
Identify the meaning of idioms and adages
Shades of meaning
Describe the difference between related words
Positive and negative connotation
Context clues
Find words using context
Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
Use academic vocabulary in context
Reference skills
Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
Order alphabetically: challenge
Use guide words
Use dictionary entries
Use dictionary definitions
Use thesaurus entries
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?
Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?
Identify dependent and independent clauses
Is the sentence simple or compound?
Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?
Create compound sentences
Order the words to create a sentence
Nouns
Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
Identify common and proper nouns
Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y
Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y
Form plurals: review
Form and use plurals: review
Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives
Form the singular or plural possessive
Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns
Identify personal pronouns
Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
Compound subjects and objects with “I” and “me”
Compound subjects and objects with personal pronouns
Use possessive pronouns
Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
Use reflexive pronouns
Identify relative pronouns
Use relative pronouns: who and whom
Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
Verb types
Identify main verbs and helping verbs
What does the modal verb show?
Use the correct modal verb
Subject-verb agreement
Use the correct subject or verb
Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects
Verb tense
Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?
Form and use the regular past tense
Form and use the irregular past tense
Form and use the simple past, present, and future tense
Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Use the progressive verb tenses
Form the progressive verb tenses
Choose between the past tense and past participle
Use the perfect verb tenses
Form the perfect verb tenses
Adjectives and adverbs
Identify adjectives
Order adjectives
Identify adverbs
Use relative adverbs
Choose between adjectives and adverbs
Is the word an adjective or adverb?
Use adjectives to compare
Spell adjectives that compare
Use adjectives with more and most
Use adverbs to compare
Prepositions
Identify prepositions
Identify prepositions and their objects
Identify prepositional phrases
Prepositions: review
Conjunctions
Identify coordinating conjunctions
Identify subordinating conjunctions
Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Fill in the missing correlative conjunction
Contractions
Pronoun-verb contractions
Contractions with “not”
Commas
Commas with a series
Commas with dates and places
Commas with direct addresses
Commas with introductory elements
Commas with compound and complex sentences
Commas: review
Capitalization
Correct capitalization errors
Capitalizing titles
Formatting
Formatting titles
Formatting and capitalizing titles
Formatting street addresses
Punctuating dialogue
