North Dakota State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 5

ND.5.1. Research: Students engage in the research process.

5.1.1. Planning Research: Generate connections between issues, texts, and topics of interest.

5.1.2. Planning Research: Plan and use a research strategy.

5.1.3. Accessing Information: Use relevant resource materials to access information; e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, videos, interviews, cassette recordings, electronic databases, and Internet.

5.1.4. Evaluating Research Information: Use criteria to evaluate the accuracy of information; e.g., factual vs. fictional text, persuasive vs. informational.

5.1.5. Organizing Research Information: Use note-taking strategies to organize information that would include paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying main concepts in information sources.

5.1.6. Organizing Research Information: Create charts, outlines, and graphs to organize and record information in a simple format from a variety of sources.

5.1.7. Presentation and Evaluation: Assess research process and presentation by conferencing with peers and/or teacher.

5.1.8. Presentation and Evaluation: Evaluate a research process and presentation using a rubric based on set criteria.

ND.5.2. Reading: Students engage in the reading process.

5.2.1. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Read a variety of texts; i.e., fiction, nonfiction, multicultural.

5.2.2. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Analyze the elements of a fiction text; i.e., setting, characters, events, problems, resolution/solution, universal themes.

5.2.3. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Analyze characteristics of non-fiction text; i.e., headings, subheadings, captions, graphics, tables, conventions of print.

5.2.4. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Compare and contrast characteristics of a variety of fiction genres; i.e., mysteries, poetry, legends, novels, historical fiction, science fiction, myths, plays, fables.

5.2.5. Literary/Informational Genres and Elements: Compare and contrast characteristics of a variety of nonfiction genres; i.e., biography, autobiography, memoir, informational articles, editorials, essays.

5.2.6. Word Recognition/Vocabulary: Use word recognition strategies to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and make sense of text; i.e., synonyms/antonyms, homonyms, word origins, prefixes/suffixes, words with multiple meanings, context clues.

5.2.7. Word Recognition/Vocabulary: Use word reference resources to determine word meaning; i.e., dictionary, thesaurus, Greek/Latin root histories.

5.2.8. Reading Strategies for Meaning: Use a variety of text comprehension strategies to improve and monitor understanding; i.e., building background, main idea/details, fact/opinion, predicting, questioning, synthesizing, inferring, summarizing, visualizing/verbalizing, analyzing.

5.2.9. Reading Strategies for Meaning: Demonstrate fluency, reading in meaningful phrases: clear, at an appropriate rate, with expression and accuracy.

5.2.10. Purposes for Reading: Use reading to be informed, entertained, and persuaded; e.g., role-playing, journals, essays.

5.2.11. Purposes for Reading: Reflect on and respond to texts from various genres and cultures.

ND.5.3. Writing: Students engage in the writing process.

5.3.1. Prewriting: Plan writing for a specific audience and purpose to inform, entertain, or persuade; i.e., memoir, factual, persuasive, poetry, narrative.

5.3.2. Prewriting: Plan a written text using a variety of techniques; e.g., webbing, listing, graphic organizers, taking notes to develop a topic or purpose.

5.3.3. Drafting: Compose writing that contains characteristics of a selected genre of writing; i.e., memoir, factual persuasive, poetry, narrative.

5.3.4. Drafting: Organize and develop paragraphs using topic sentences, additional details, and supporting details in writing at least 5 paragraphs.

5.3.5. Drafting: Use proper paragraph form that includes smooth transitions between paragraphs.

5.3.6. Drafting: Incorporate vocabulary in writing.

5.3.7. Revising: Review and monitor organization of a topic in a written piece for elaboration, description, clarity, and syntax.

5.3.8. Revising Use feedback and multiple drafts to clarify language and purpose of the written text.

5.3.9. Editing: Use proofreading marks to edit written text for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, grammar, paragraph indentation.

5.3.10. Editing: Use reference tools for writing; e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, word wall, classroom library, and word processor.

5.3.11. Final Draft: Compose written text that demonstrates understanding of purpose and audience using a specific genre of writing; i.e., memoir, factual, persuasive poetry, narrative.

5.3.12. Publication/Presentation: Share final copy with peers, teachers, and/or family members.

5.3.13. Publication/Presentation: Evaluate writing process using a variety of assessment tools; e.g., checklist, rubric, conferences.

ND.5.4. Speaking and Listening: Students engage in the speaking and listening process.

5.4.1. Planning for an Audience/Purpose: Organize an oral presentation to inform, demonstrate, entertain, or persuade from an organized plan; i.e., memoir, factual persuasive, poetry, narrative.

5.4.2. Planning for an Audience/Purpose: Make informative presentations that outline and explain the key ideas of the topic.

5.4.3. Planning for an Audience/Purpose Use supporting materials for topic development; e.g., research, personal experience, literature, interview, fact and opinion.

5.4.4. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Demonstrate appropriate speaking vocabulary.

5.4.5. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Use tone, emotion, verbal and nonverbal messages, and facts and opinions effectively in oral presentations.

5.4.6. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Speak with purpose using delivery techniques appropriate for different audiences to inform, demonstrate, entertain, or persuade.

5.4.7. Conversation, Group Discussion, and Oral Presentation: Participate as an active listener and speaker in group discussions.

ND.5.5. Media: Students understand media.

5.5.1. Media Genres: Describe existing and developing media.

5.5.2. Media Genres: Compare and contrast characteristics of common types of media; e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, cartoons, radio, television, films, electronic sources.

5.5.3. Using Media for a Purpose: Produce samples of different media genres to inform, entertain, advertise, or persuade; i.e., memoir, factual, persuasive, poetry, narrative.

5.5.4. Interpreting Media: Evaluate media content meaning; i.e., important details, supporting details, propaganda and persuasion, sequence/timelines.

5.5.5. Interpreting Media: Demonstrate media production techniques and formats; e.g., images and symbols, basic propaganda and persuasion, slide show, billboards, brochures, and newsletters.

ND.5.6. Language: Students understand and use principles of language.

5.6.1. Conventions/Mechanics: Use parts of speech; i.e., noun, verb, adjective, adverb, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

5.6.2. Conventions/Mechanics: Use subjects and predicates in simple, compound, and complex sentences.

5.6.3. Conventions/Mechanics: Use conventions of grammar related to parts of speech, including verb tenses, modifiers, and pronouns.

5.6.4. Conventions/Mechanics: Use capitalization; e.g., proper nouns, titles of books, magazines, special events, the first word in quotations when appropriate.

5.6.5. Conventions/Mechanics: Use conventions of punctuation; i.e., ending punctuation, apostrophes in the possessive case, colon to introduce a list, use of semicolons to connect independent clauses.

5.6.6. Conventions/Mechanics: Use principles of spelling; e.g., double final consonant following short vowel, Greek/Latin roots.

5.6.7. Figurative Language: Use and interpret similes, metaphors, alliterations, idioms, onomatopoeia, and personification.