The following is a guide for choosing targeted objectives and assessing the students’ learning. These grade level expectations for Grades 3-8 are not to be taught in isolation. This guide identifies featured skills that will be assessed at the end of the appropriate quarter. Each assessment is cumulative, so all the expectations need to continue to spiral throughout the year with a new group of identified skills featured. Some GLEs targeted in previous grades may also be assessed. The March CMT will test all skills expected to be mastered.  These skills come from the reading comprehension GLEs. 

The * indicates a featured skill for the quarter. 

The x indicates continued instruction and possible assessment.

P indicates a prior grade’s GLE

Grade Level Expectations — Grade 5

Students:

Fall

Winter

CMT

Spring

Summarize the major actions that define the plot and how actions lead to conflict or resolution.

*

x

x

Use knowledge of the situation, characters’ actions, motivations, feelings, and physical attributes to determine characters’ traits.

*

x

x

Take a position regarding a topic/issue.

*

x

x

Connect current issues, information from other texts, and personal experiences to characters, events, and information.

*

x

x

Follow multistep directions in a procedural text and explain and/or follow the process.

*

x

x

Explain how specific text features help you understand a selection (e.g., how a chapter heading helps you think about the chapter, how boldface or italics signals a new term that can be found in the glossary).

*

x

x

Explain the characteristics of various genres.

*

x

x

Identify the narrator and explain which point of view is used.

*

x

Identify recurring themes in literature, including books by the same author (e.g., friendship, conflict).

*

x

Explain how a story would change if a different character narrated it.

*

x

Explain similarities and differences within and among multiple cultures or historical periods (e.g., marriage customs or family vs. community responsibilities).

*

x

Evaluate the quality and value of text.

*

x

Find similarities and differences within and between texts using text-based evidence (e.g., character’s point of view in poetry and narrative; the author’s feelings and the poet’s feelings).

*

x

Understand how the author’s experience, values, ethics and beliefs influence text.

*

x

Explain the influence of setting on character and plot.

*

Compare and contrast ideas, themes, and/or issues across texts, and across texts representing multicultural experiences.

*

Discuss and analyze how characters in text deal with conflicts of human experience, relating to real life situations.

*

Compare and contrast the same conflict from the point of view of two different characters.

*

Understand the social and cultural perspective from which the author writes and how that contributes to the text.