Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Correlations

English Language Arts

Strand - Reading Standards: Literature, Grade 5

Key Ideas and Details

ELA.RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Key Ideas and Details

ELA.RL.5.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

Craft and Structure

ELA.RL.5.6: Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

ELA.RL.5.7: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

ELA.RL.5.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Strand - Reading Standards: Informational Text, Grade 5

Key Ideas and Details

ELA.RI.5.2: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

Key Ideas and Details

ELA.RI.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Craft and Structure

ELA.RI.5.6: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.

Craft and Structure

ELA.RI.5.4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

ELA.RI.5.8: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

ELA.RI.5.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Strand - Fluency, Grade 5

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

ELA.RF.5.4a: Read on-grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

ELA.RF.5.4c: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

ELA.RF.5.4b: Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Strand - Text Types and Purposes, Grade 5

Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

ELA.W.5.1c: Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).

Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

ELA.W.5.1a: Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.

Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

ELA.W.5.1b: Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

ELA.W.5.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

ELA.W.5.2a: Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

ELA.W.5.2d: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

ELA.W.5.3c: Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

ELA.W.5.3a: Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

ELA.W.5.3b: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

Strand - Writing Standards, Grade 5

Production and Distribution of Writing

ELA.W.5.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

Production and Distribution of Writing

ELA.W.5.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)

Range of Writing

ELA.W.5.10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Strand - Research to Build and Present Knowledge, Grade 5

Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

ELA.W.5.9a: Apply grade 5 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or a drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., how characters interact]”).

Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

ELA.W.5.9b: Apply grade 5 Reading standards to informational texts (e.g., “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point[s]”).

Strand - Speaking and Listening Standards, Grade 5

Comprehension and Collaboration

ELA.SL.5.2: Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

Comprehension and Collaboration

ELA.SL.5.3: Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence.

Strand - Knowledge of Language, Grade 5

Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

ELA.L.5.3b: Compare and contrast the varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, or poems.

Strand - Language Standards, Grade 5

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

ELA.L.5.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).

Strand - Vocabulary Acquisition and Use, Grade 5

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

ELA.L.5.4a: Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

ELA.L.5.5c: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

ELA.L.5.5b: Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.

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