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FIFTH GRADE
The Elementary Progress Report is based on Salem-Keizer Standards. For a full description please go
to www.salkeiz.k12.or.us/content/parents and click on the standards link or contact your child’s teacher.
Students will read a variety of grade level texts (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, poetry) with accuracy, fluency, and
READING comprehension. As the year progresses, so does the complexity of the text.
• Accuracy – students are able to read grade level text accurately • Comprehension – students listen to, read, and understand a wide
by recognizing some words by sight, and using clues to decode variety of informational and narrative text across the subject
unfamiliar words (e.g., text clues, picture clues and context areas at school and on own, applying comprehension strategies
clues). (e.g., visualizing, connecting, asking questions), skills (e.g.,
• Fluency – students read grade-level text with expression that is retell, identify main idea and supporting details) and vocabulary
beginning to sound conversational. as needed.
Students will experience writing in authentic ways, writing for real audiences in a variety of genres (e.g. fictional narratives,
WRITING research reports, summaries and responses to literature). Students will create writing by studying real authors and applying
strategies good writers use:
• The Writing Process – students generate ideas, create drafts, • Conventions – students use correct spelling, grammar,
revise/confer, edit & publish. punctuation, capitalization, usage, and paragraphing as
• Ideas and Content – students communicate knowledge of the appropriate to grade level standards.
topic, write relevant examples, and convey clear main ideas, • Sentence Fluency – students use varied sentence structures to
facts, anecdotes, and detail appropriate to the topic, audience, and enhance flow, rhythm, length and meaning.
purpose. • Voice – Personal style comes through in words.
• Organization – students structure information in a clear sequence • Word Choice – students use accurate, colorful and descriptive
including beginning, middle, and end. They make connections words to express ideas.
and transition among ideas, sentences, and paragraphs.
• Number and Operations – students develop an understanding of • Measurement – students develop and relate two-dimensional
and fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions and shapes to three-dimensional shapes and analyze their properties
decimals. including volume and surface area.
• Numbers, Operations, Algebra, Data Analysis – students develop • Uses mathematical representations and communicates reasoning –
fluency with division of whole numbers. students use manipulatives and models (e.g., connecting cubes,
charts, various fraction and decimal models, base-ten pieces,
number lines, arrays) to communicate understanding of
mathematical concepts and operations.
Students will experience science in contexts that promote the scientific inquiry approach. Learning will
SCIENCE incorporate engineering and design and the scientific method through the use of evidence, critical thinking,
making connections and communications. Areas of study will include: