ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA)
PA Core Standards
READING
1.1 Foundation Skills
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
1.2 Reading Informational Text
- Determine two or more main ideas in a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text
- Cite textual evidence by quoting accurately from the text to explain what the text says explicitly and make inferences.
- Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a text based on specific information in the text.
- Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
- Use text structure, in and among texts, to interpret information (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution).
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade-level text, including interpretation of figurative language.
- Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate and answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
- Determine how an author supports particular points in a text through reasons and evidence.
- Integrate information from several texts on the same topic to demonstrate understanding of that topic.
- Acquire and use accurately grade appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools.
- Read and comprehend literary nonfiction and informational text on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
1.3 Reading Literature
- Determine a theme of a text 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.
- Cite textual evidence by quoting accurately from the text to explain what the text says explicitly and make inferences.
- Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
- Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
- Explain how a series of chapters, scenes. Or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade-level text, including the interpretation of figurative language.
- Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text(e.e., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem.)
- Compare and contrast texts in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics as well as additional literary elements.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade –level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools.
- Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain specific phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships.
- Read and comprehend literary fictions on grade-level, reading independently and proficiently.
LANGUAGE ARTS
1.4 Writing
- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
- Identify and introduce the topic clearly.
- Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic; include illustrations and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
- Group related information logically linking ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses; provide a concluding statement or section; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension.
- Write with and awareness of style.
- Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Write opinion pieces on topics or texts.
- Introduce the topic and state an opinion on the topic.
- Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details; draw from credible sources.
- Create an organizational structure that includes related ideas grouped to support the writers purpose; link opinions and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses; provide a concluding statement or sections related to the opinion.
- Write with and awareness of style.
- Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.
- Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters.
- Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations; use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
- Organize and event sequence that unfolds naturally, using a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events, provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences and events.
- Write with an awareness of style.
- Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade-level reading standards for literature and informational texts.
- With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
- With some guidance and support, use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.
- Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
- 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.
1.5 Speaking and Listening
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussion on grade-level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- Summarize the main points of written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence.
- Report on a topic or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly with adequate volume, appropriate pacing, and clear pronunciation.
- Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks using formal English when appropriate to task and situation.
- Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentation when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English when speaking, based on grade 5 level and content.
MATH
PA Core Standards
2.1 Numbers and Operations
- Apply place value concepts to show an understanding of operations and rounding as they pertain to whole numbers and decimals.
- Extend an understanding of operations with whole numbers to perform operations including decimals.
- Use the understanding of equivalency to add and subtract fractions.
- Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
2.2 Algebraic Concepts
- Interpret and evaluate numerical expressions using order of operations
- Analyze patterns and relationships using two rules
2.3 Geometry
- Graph points in the first quadrant on the coordinate plane and interpret these points when solving real world mathematical problems.
- Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on an understanding of their properties.
2.4 Measurement, Data, and Probability
- Solve problems using conversions within a given measurement system
- Represent and interpret data using appropriate scale.
- Solve problems involving computations of fractions using information provided in a line plot.
- Apply concepts of volume to solve problems and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.
SOCIAL STUDIES
PA Academic Standards
5.0 Civics and Government
- Understand the rule of law in protecting property rights, individual rights and the common good.
- Describe the basic purposes of government in the classroom, school, community, state, and nation.
- Describe the principles and ideals shaping local state, and national government: Liberty / Freedom, Democracy, Justice, Equality
- Interpret key ideas about government found in significant documents: Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, Pennsylvania Constitution
- Identify the individual rights guaranteed by the PA Constitution and the U.S. Constitution.
- Explain the significance of state symbols, national symbols, and national holidays.
- Identify individual rights and needs and the rights and needs of others in the classroom, school, community, state, and nation.
- Identify behaviors that promote cooperation among individuals.
- Explain why individuals become involved in leadership and public service.
- Identify specific ways individuals participate in school and community activities.
- Describe the responsibilities and powers of the three branches of government.
- Describe how the elected representative bodies function in making local, state, and national laws.
- Describe the role of local and state government officials.
- Describe the primary duties of elected local, state, and national positions.
- Identify the requirements to vote in local, state, and national elections.
- Examine different ways conflicts can be resolved.
- Describe how groups try to influence others.
- Identify various sources of mass media.
- Describe the difference between nation and country.
6.0 Economics
- Explain how limited resources and unlimited wants cause scarcity.
- Explain ways in which people meet their basic needs and wants.
- Demonstrate the use of human and capital resources in the production of a specific good.
- Explain how people’s choices have different economic consequences.
- Demonstrate how availability of resources affects choices.
- Describe how goods and services are distributed.
- Identify how pricing influences sellers and consumers.
- Explain how advertising causes people to change their behavior in predictable ways.
- Identify factors that cause changes in price.
- Describe the impact of businesses opening and closing on Pennsylvania economy.
- Compare and contrast types of private economic institutions.
- Describe various economic systems: Traditional, Market, Command
- Describe the cost and benefits of government economic programs.
- Describe factors that influence government’s economic decision making.
- Explore ways in which tax revenue is collected.
- Explain why people specialize in the production of goods and services and divide labor.
- Explain the growth in international trade.
- Explain how and where multinational corporations operate.
- Identify various economic and non-economic organizations that contribute to interaction among individuals and nations.
- Describe how the availability of goods and services is made possible by the work of members of the society.
- Differentiate the requirements for different careers and occupations.
- Explain how positive and negative incentives affect individual choices.
- Identify tangible and intangible assets.
- Define entrepreneurship and its role in the local community.
- Identify the costs and benefits of saving.
- Identify the costs and benefits of borrowing.
7.0 Geography
- Describe how common geographic tools are used to organize and interpret information about people, places, and environment.
- Describe and locate places and regions as defined by physical and human features.
- Describe the characteristics of places and regions.
- Identify the basic physical processes that affect the physical characteristics of places and regions.
- Identify the human characteristics of places and regions using the following criteria: Population, Culture, Settlement, Economic activities, Political activities
- Describe and explain the effects of the physical systems on people within regions.
- Identify the effect of people on the physical systems within a community.
8.0 History
- Identify and explain the influences of economic features on continuity and change over time.
- Classify and analyze fact and opinion from multiple points of view, and secondary sources as related to historical events.
- Locate primary and secondary sources for the research topic and summarize in writing the findings. (Reference RWSL Standard 1.8.5 Research)
- Compare and contrast common characteristics of the social, political, cultural, and economic groups from Pennsylvania.
- Illustrate concepts and knowledge of historical documents, artifacts, and places critical to Pennsylvania history.
- Differentiate how continuity and change in Pennsylvania history are formed and operate: Belief systems and religions, Commerce and industry, Technology, Politics and government, Physical and human geography, Social organizations
- Examine patterns of conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations that impacted the history and development of Pennsylvania for responding to individual and community needs: Ethnicity and race, Working conditions, Immigration, Military conflict, Economic stability
- Compare and contrast common characteristics of the social, political, cultural and economic groups in United States history.
- Illustrate concepts and knowledge of historical documents, artifacts, and places critical to United States history.
- Differentiate how continuity and change in U.S. history are formed and operate: Belief systems and religions, Commerce and industry, Technology Politics and government, Physical and human geography, Social organizations
- Examine patterns of conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations that impacted the history and development of the United States: Ethnicity and race, Working conditions, Immigration, Military conflict, Economic stability
- Compare and contrast common characteristics of the social, political, cultural, and economic groups in world history.
- Illustrate concepts and knowledge of historical documents, artifacts, and sites, which are critical to World history.