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FIFTH GRADE CURRICULUM
(Kdg - 5th Grade Curriculum .pdf)

LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading/Literature
• Strategies used by good readers: purpose for reading, prior knowledge, SQ3R, phonics, structural analysis, KWL
• Strategies for reading fictional text: rereading, predicting, sequencing, cause/effect, drawing conclusions, generalizing, story mapping, paraphrasing, summarizing
• Story elements: topic, main idea, point of view, character, plot, setting, problem, solution
• Literary techniques: dialogue, introductions, conclusions
• Types of literature: fictional, poetry, mystery, science fiction, historical, and realistic
• Strategies for reading informational text: fact vs. opinion, outlining, taking notes, graphic organizer, and glossary usage
• Types of informational text: textbooks, letters, diaries, directions, procedures, magazines, biographies, and newspaper
• Vocabulary workshop

Mountain Language
• Grammar: quotation marks, commas, apostrophes, colons/semicolons capitalization of proper nouns and in titles, compound sentences, subject/verb agreement, simple and complete subjects and predicates, nouns/pronouns, verbs, conjunctions, adverbs, adjectives
• Reference skills: alphabetical order, multiple meanings, parts of speech in a dictionary, glossary, thesaurus
• Language patterns: dialect, cultural influences on English, contexts and purposes, regional variations, connotations, origins of words

Writing
• Prewriting and drafting strategies: brainstorming, webbing, theme expansion, choosing and narrowing, audience and purpose, clustering and patterning
• Revising strategies: fluency, voice, audience, purpose, organization, word choice, sentence construction, paragraphs/indenting, titles, staying on topic
• Editing and publishing strategies: correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar and usage
• Types of writing: personal narrative, friendly letter, story, descriptive paragraph, persuasive, how to, and directions
• Research skills: dictionary, conferencing, thesaurus, atlas, almanacs, encyclopedia, periodicals, newspapers, and internet search

Penmanship
• Legible cursive writing

Speaking and Listening
• Directions: follows four step and generates three step directions
• Listening: takes turns, raises hand, focuses on speaker, avoids interrupting, asks appropriate questions, asks for clarification
• Expressing ideas orally: clarity, volume, eye contact, staying on topic, sequencing thoughts, standard English, correct grammar, personal voice, pauses and gestures, visual aids
• Types of speaking opportunities: poems, role-playing, skits and plays, presentation of personal writing, informal interviewing, choral reading, persuasive speech, short presentations with visuals, book talks
• Group participation: plans and works collaboratively, stays on task, performs assigned role, and displays problem-solving strategies

Accelerated Reader - individualized

Social Studies
History Alive! America’s Past
• Geography of the United States
• Native Americans
• New World exploration
• Early English settlements
• Causes of slavery
• Declaring independence
• Revolutionary War
• The Constitution and Bill of Rights
• Manifest Destiny
• Civil War: Causes and impact
• Industrialization and Modern America

Geography
• Location, place, region, human-environment, interaction, movements

Economics/Civics
• Writing to public officials using Core Democratic Values
• Understanding how our government works at both local and national levels

Public Discourse
• Defending a position on public policy
• Writing persuasive essays and letters

Science
Lab Learner
• Work and simple machines
• Earth’s forces
• Inheritance and adaptation
• Microcopic exploration
• Exploring density

Scientific Method
• Science Fair project

IB Units
• Who we are: Exploration and the interaction of cultures
• Where we are in place & time: Movement and settlement
• How we express ourselves: Exhibition
• How we organize ourselves: The development of constitutions
• Sharing the planet: Conflict resolution
• How the world works: Heredity & Adaptation

Technology
• Ethics and evaluation
• Problem solving
• Basic operations
• Spreadsheet
• Database
• Telecommunication
• Drawing, painting and graphics
• Control and data capture
• Presentation
• Internet ethics

Math
Resources
• Textbooks, applied math units, simulations, daily problem-solving sessions, basic facts mastery, mental math strategies and computers, Accelerated Math, computer

Number Sense
• Place value, number systems multiplication, division, fractions, decimals

Measurement
• Customary and metric systems, conversions

Geometry
• Shape, size, symmetry, congruence, and similarity in two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects

Statistics
• Sorting, representing, analyzing and interpreting data

Patterns and Functions
• Patterns, make generalizations, relationships

Logic
• Make generalizations, justify them, logical arguments

Probability
• Estimation and prediction