Fifth Grade Reading Expectations

1.  The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.

1.2 Use vocabulary (word meaning) strategies to comprehend text.

1.2.1 Understand and apply knowledge of word and language structure including word origins, word roots, prefixes, suffixes; make predictions; and verify and revise understanding during reading.

Apply understanding of word and language structure to comprehend text.

• Use word roots, prefixes, suffixes, word order, inflectional endings, and sentence structure to predict and confirm word meanings in text.

1.2.2 Use a variety of reading strategies to comprehend words and ideas, including self-correcting, re-reading, reading on, and slowing down.

Apply a variety of reading strategies to comprehend words and ideas in complex text.

• Self-correct, re-read, read on, and/or slow down when encountering unknown words in text.

1.2.3 Use dictionaries, glossaries, and other sources to understand and confirm word meanings.

Understand and apply dictionary skills and other reference skills.

• Use dictionaries, thesaurus, and glossaries to find or confirm word meanings, pronunciations, syllabication, synonyms, antonyms, and parts of speech.
• Use text evidence to verify dictionary or glossary meaning.
• Select appropriate meaning of multiple meaning words (e.g., branch – of a tree, of a bank, of government).
• Explain shades of meaning between similar words (e.g., trash, garbage, debris).

1.3 Build vocabulary through wide reading.

1.3.1 Use pictures, graphics, word meaning, and context clues to comprehend text.

Apply understanding of pictures/graphics and context clues to comprehend text.

• Use text pictures and graphics to predict and confirm word meanings.
• Use a variety of context clues to understand new words in text (e.g., explanations, elaborations, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms)

1.3.2 Build reading vocabulary across content areas.

Apply understanding of vocabulary used in literary, informational, and task-oriented texts.

• Integrate new vocabulary from literary, informational, and task-oriented texts into written and oral communication.

1.3.3 Identify and interpret general and specialized vocabulary critical to the meaning of text.

Understand and apply technical and specialized vocabulary from context.

• Identify and define content area vocabulary critical to the meaning of the text and use that knowledge to interpret the text.
• Recognize words that have different meanings in different content areas and determine the correct meaning from the context (e.g., property in science or social studies).

1.4 Apply word recognition skills and strategies to read fluently.

1.4.1 Read grade level text fluently.

Apply word recognition skills and strategies to read fluently with comprehension.

• Read grade level text both orally and silently with understanding.
• Read aloud unpracticed grade level text at a target rate of 125-135 words correct per minute.
• Read orally with appropriate expression and phrasing.

1.4.2 Adjust rate to accommodate the form, style, and difficulty of material and purpose for reading.

Apply different reading rates to text.

• Adjust reading rate by speeding up or slowing down based on purpose (e.g., pleasure, informational reading, task-oriented reading), text level of difficulty, form and style