English

English — Grade 5

American Curriculum · Ages 10-11

Fifth grade is the last elementary year and works close to middle school demand. Students analyze how a narrator's point of view shapes a story, compare the structure of two texts, and explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points.

Writing covers opinion essays with logically ordered reasons, informative essays with formatting and concrete detail, and narratives with pacing and dialogue. Research projects require multiple sources and a summary in the student's own words, and grammar covers perfect verb tenses, conjunctions and correlative pairs.

Key topics covered

• Reading LiteratureTheme, point of view, figurative language, and comparing story structures.
• Reading Informational TextHow authors use reasons and evidence, and drawing on multiple sources.
• Summarizing & SynthesisSummarizing accurately and combining information from several texts.
• VocabularyRoots, affixes, figurative language, and academic vocabulary in context.
• WritingOpinion, informative and narrative essays with structure, pacing and detail.
• Research & CitationGathering from several sources, paraphrasing and listing them.
• Grammar & MechanicsPerfect verb tenses, correlative conjunctions, commas and titles of works.