Fifth Grade Reading Essential Outcomes
By the end of 5th grade I will… • Compare - (How Things are the Same in Text) • Contrast - (How Things are Different in Text) • Identify the Main Idea using supporting details - (What’s the Big Idea?) • Locate Supporting Details in a text – (Evidence of Main Idea) • Determine the Cause – (Why Something Happened) • Determine the Effect – (Result of Something that Happened) • Discover the Author’s Purpose - (Reason the Author Wrote the Text) PIEE Persuade Inform Express Ideas Entertain • Analyze the Sequence of a story – (Order of Events) • Identify 1st Person Point of View - ( I, my, we, us) • Identify 3rd Person Point of View - (he, she, they) • Analyze Characters in text - (Physical and Personal Traits) • Use Facts from Text and Personal Experience to Draw Conclusions o (Make an Opinion about the Text) • Identify the Plot – (Overall Structure of a Story) o Conflict o Rising Action o Climax o Resolution • Understand Figurative Language o Simile - (Comparing using “like” or “as”) o Metaphor - (comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common) |