LANGUAGE ARTS
Skills to Get Ready for Grade 5:
English Language Arts and LiteracyTo get ready for fifth grade, kids start reading more challenging material, including news articles and other informational texts. They add to their vocabulary and use evidence from the text when they summarize. By the end of fourth grade, students are expected to have mastered the following language and literacy skills:
Identify the main idea of what’s been read, explaining how the author used facts and evidence to back up the text
Compare writing from different cultures
- Understand information presented in drawings, timelines, charts, and other non-text formats
- Take notes and organize facts; create oral and written reports using the information
- Participate in class discussions about specific questions and share their own ideas and understandings in relation to the discussion
- Use dialogue and descriptive language in stories to show a character’s inner life
- Learn more about trouble with reading and writing. Explore books to read with a reluctant reader and find fun ways to boost writing skills and encourage reading.
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