Fifth Grade Reading Expectations

2. The student understands the meaning of what is read.

2.1 Demonstrate evidence of reading comprehension.

2.1.1 Demonstrates basic comprehension of content of literary, informational, and task-oriented texts such as plays, newspaper articles, and instructions.

Apply comprehension strategies.

• Monitor for meaning by identifying where and why comprehension was lost, and use comprehension repair strategies (rereading, looking back, reading ahead, slowing down, paraphrasing by sections, using context, taking notes, etc.)  to regain meaning.
• Generate and answer questions about the text before, during and after reading to aid comprehension.
• Use questioning strategies such as QAR/Reciprocal Teaching to comprehend text.
• Draw, write about, or verbally describe the mental images that occur while reading.
• Select graphic organizers appropriate to the text and purpose for reading to organize information and to comprehend text.
• Use pre-, during, and after reading tools designed to activate and record prior knowledge to understand text (e.g., predictions guides, KWL charts, DR/TA).

2.1.2 Demonstrate comprehension of the main idea and supporting details; through summarizing in own words using evidence from the text.

Understand the main idea and supporting details in text.

• Restate the main idea of a passage and provide several text-based details supporting it.

Understand how to summarize using the main idea and supporting details in text.

• Summarize the main idea and the most important text based facts, details, and/or ideas from informational text such as newspaper or magazine articles (see Text Forms and Features).

Understand the main events and supporting details in literary text.

• Summarize the plot in literary texts such as short stories.

2.1.3 Connect previous experiences and knowledge when reading to understand characters, events, and information.

Apply prior knowledge to understand text.

• Connect previous experiences, current issues, and information previously learned to characters, events, and information within text.

2.1.4 Make inferences and predictions based on the text.

Apply the strategies of prediction and inference to comprehend text.

• Make, confirm, and revise prediction based on prior knowledge and evidence from the text before, during, and after reading.
• Cite passages from text to confirm or defend predictions and inferences.

2.2 Understand and apply knowledge of text components to comprehend text.

2.2.1 Use time, order, and/or sequence to accurately recall text.

Understand how time, order, and/or sequence can be used to analyze text.

• Recognize and explain the use of flashbacks to convey meaning in literary text.
• Recognize and explain the use of steps in a process to convey meaning in an informational text (e.g., scientific experiments, legislative processes, mathematical procedures).

2.2.2 Analyze and apply text organizational structures in literary and informational text.

Apply understanding of text organizational structures.

• Identify text written in the organization structure of sequential order, chronological order, cause and effect, and description.  Use that understanding to find and organize information and comprehend text.

2.2.3 Understand story elements (plot, characters, setting, point of view, problem, solution).

Understand and analyze point of view.

• Identify the speaker in a text and explain which point of view is used.
• Describe the difference between the first and third person point of view.
• Explain how the story would change if the narrator were changed.

Understand plot and how conflict and resolution define plot.

• Identify the major actions that define the plot and how actions lead to conflict or resolution

Understand character development.

• Describe a character using examples from the text including the character’s own thoughts, words, and actions as well as the physical attributes.

Understand setting.

• Identify the components of setting (time, place) and explain how and why setting is important to the story.

Understand theme.

• Recognize the state theme/message in text and support with evidence from the text.
• Identify common recurring themes in books by the same author.

2.2.4 Locate and use text features (title, heading, table of contents, index, captions, alphabetizing, numbering, glossaries, etc.) to understand text.

Apply understanding of text features.

• Locate information using grade level appropriate text features (e.g., bibliographies, chapter summaries) (See Text Forms and Features).
• Interpret and draw conclusions from grade level appropriate text features such as maps, charts, tables, and graphs, etc. (e.g., given a table of precipitation and temperatures across the country, draw a conclusion about which cities would receive snow).

2.2.5 Recognize and use features of electronic information such as pull-down menus, key word searches, icons, etc.

Apply understanding of electronic information features.

• Use the organizational features and sources of electronic information (such as heading and numberings, CD-ROM, Internet, pull-down menus, key word searches, and icons) to access information.

2.3 Expand comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information and ideas in literary and informational text.

2.3.1 Find similarities and differences in stories: understand relationship between parts of a text or between two texts.

Analyze informational and literary texts for content.

• Find similarities and differences in content between two or more texts (e.g., descriptive details in newspaper article vs. poetry; author’s points of view in different works).

Analyze informational and literary text for cause and effect.

• Identify and interpret cause and effect relationships within a text and between two texts using evidence from the text(s).

2.3.2 Identify literary devices (figurative language, exaggeration, irony, humor, dialogue).

Understand a function (to make the story more interesting) of literary devices.

• Recognize previously-taught literary devices (simile, personification, humor metaphor, idiom), and explain how they make the story more interesting.
• Identify literary devices such as imagery, exaggeration, irony, and sarcasm and explain how they make the story more interesting.

2.3.3 Find, sort, and analyze information for a specific topic or purpose.

Apply understanding of  how to find information for a  specific topic.

• Select appropriate resources such as an atlas, newspaper, magazine, memos, directories, schedules, to locate information on a specific topic.

2.4 Think critically and analyze author's use of language, style, purpose, and perspective in literary and informational text.

2.4.1 Evaluate the validity of what is read.

Understand fact and opinion.

• Distinguish between fact and opinion and provide supporting evidence from text.

2.4.2 Analyze author's purpose for and style of writing.

Apply knowledge of the author's purpose to comprehend text.

• Identify and explain the author’s purpose (e.g., entertain, enlighten, inform, explain, persuade) and apply that knowledge to comprehend text.

Understand author's style of writing.

• Identify author's use of word choice, sentence structure and length, and/or literary devices in a variety of texts.

2.4.3 Recognize that authors make language choices to influence an audience.

Understand an author’s word choices to influence an audience.

• Identify examples of author’s word choice and explain how they influence an audience.

2.4.4 Analyze and evaluate author's effectiveness for different audiences.

Understand that authors write to an audience.

• Identify the author’s target audience and cite evidenced to support that choice.

2.4.5 Recognize the author’s point of view, tone, and use of persuasive devices.

Understand author’s use of persuasive devices and propaganda devices.

• Cite and explain examples of author’s use of persuasive devices and propaganda techniques (e.g., bandwagon, peer pressure, repetition, testimonials/endorsements).

Understand author’s point of view.

• Identify author’s point of view and cite text-based details/facts used to support it.

2.4.6 Apply information gained from reading to give a response, express insights, and draw conclusions.

Understand how to extend information beyond the text to a broader idea or concept.

• Make generalizations about characters, ideas, problems, and solutions from a single text.
• After reading multiple texts, make generalizations about common themes, conflicts, and situations.

Understand how to apply information from a text to other texts or situations.

• Explain how information in a text could be used to solve a problem and cite text-based examples (e.g., use information from an article about when fruits and vegetables are in season to save money at the grocery store).

Understand how to give a response.

• Respond to a prompt related to a passage in the text and include text-based examples in the response.

2.4.7 Analyze, interpret, and evaluate ideas and concepts in and among multiple texts.

Understand ideas and concepts in multiple texts.

• Identify and explain an idea and/or concept which occur in multiple texts (e.g., bravery, misused power).

2.4.8 Evaluate reasoning and ideas related to a text including author’s beliefs and assumptions.

Understand an author’s beliefs and assumptions.

• Identify and explain the author’s beliefs and assumptions; cite text-based reasons for choice.