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Mahomet-Seymour Schools
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Curriculum
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Language Arts - Grade 5
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The learner will:
Identify
unfamiliar words by applying appropriate word analysis and vocabulary
strategies.
Use
root words, prefixes, and suffixes to understand word meanings.
Use
synonyms and antonyms to define words.
Identify
and interpret idioms, similes, analogies, figurative language and metaphors
to express implied meanings of words.
Determine
the meaning of a word in context when the word has multiple meanings.
Use
additional resources to clarify meanings of material.
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The learner will:
Use skimming to preview reading materials
and scanning to detect major visual patterns, set a purpose for reading,
and identify text structure before and during reading.
Formulate questions to determine meaning
during reading.
Identify author’s ideas and purposes during
reading.
Infer before, during, and after reading in a
variety of texts.
Determine the purpose of features in
informational text.
Make connections with text to clarify and
extend their ideas.
Make judgments based on prior knowledge
during reading.
Recognize and synthesize significant and
minor details, both stated and implied in the text.
Use cause and effect relationships, fact and
opinion, comparing and contrasting, sequencing, context clues, predicting,
generalizing and summarizing to better understand text.
Use information to draw conclusions from
tables, maps, and charts in order to help understand a reading passage.
Read aloud fluently with expression,
accuracy, and appropriate speed.
Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting
strategies during reading to check and clarify for understanding.
Reflect on what they read.
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The learner will:
Confirm, reject and modify open ended
questions, predictions, and hypotheses based on evidence in text.
Compare the content and organization of
various selections.
Identify evidence for inferences, make
generalizations, and draw conclusions based on a variety of texts combined
with prior knowledge.
Identify and summarize the order of events
in a story or nonfiction passage or identify the best summary.
Recognize similarities/differences of
varying styles or points of view, including the influence of the media.
Recognize how illustrations reflect,
interpret, and enhance texts in various cultures.
Apply appropriate reading strategies to
fiction and nonfiction texts within and across content areas.
Develop familiarity with available
electronic literary forms.
Select reading strategies for text
appropriate to the reader’s purpose.
Determine how authors and illustrators
express their ideas.
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The learner will:
Differentiate
among the literary elements of plot, character, setting, and theme.
Identify events important to the development
of the plot and subplot, including the rising action and falling
action/resolution.
Identify setting, including how setting
affects the plot.
Identify the author’s message or theme.
Make connections with text to clarify and
extend their ideas.
Recognize points of view in narratives.
Determine character motivation, the causes
of their actions, the relationship between them, and what characters are
like by their words and actions.
Identify and interpret figurative language,
including similes, metaphors, personification, and alliteration.
Identify examples of poetic devices using
sound, such as onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme, and unrhymed verse.
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Variety of Literary Works
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The learner will:
Identify the genres of science fiction,
historical fiction, myth or legend, drama, biography/autobiography, short
story, poem, fairy tale, folktale, fable, nonfiction, and essay.
Identify whether a given passage is
narrative, persuasive, or expository.
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Grammar and Sentence Structure
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The learner will:
Develop multi-paragraph compositions that
include an introduction, first and second level support, and a conclusion.
Use a variety of sentence structures and
sentence types.
Use basic transition works/phrases to
connect ideas.
Use and proofread for appropriate
conventions.
Demonstrate
appropriate use of various parts of speech.
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Writing for Specific Purposes
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The learner will:
Use pre-writing strategies.
Analyze basic audience and purpose for
writing and choose the appropriate form.
Establish and maintain focus/organization
within and across paragraphs.
Use appropriate voice, figurative language, transitional
words and phrases to connect and unify key ideas.
Edit and revise content.
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The learner will:
Compose writing that supports a topic or
thesis statement with evidence.
Develop a multi-paragraph piece of
well-developed and balanced expository writing, using appropriate language,
details, depth, and format.
Write an effective closing that relates to
the topic.
Achieve coherence and cohesion throughout
the composition.
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Locating, Organizing, and Using Information
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The learner will:
Define the focus, formulate questions,
gather and arrange information in an orderly manner.
Use a variety of credible sources, including
technology, to collect information relevant to a topic.
Design and prepare a project using multiple
sources.
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Analyzing and Recording Information
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The learner will:
Recognize
the purpose for and list sources of information selected for use in a
project (e.g., title, author, copyright, date).
Use information from
footnotes, illustrations, diagrams, charts, and graphs.
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Presentation of Information
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The learner will:
Identify characteristics of audiences and
purposes of the presentation.
Evaluate and select text, graphic materials,
or visual aids to present information.
Communicate, in an appropriate format,
information that was gathered by either inquiry or research.
Revise/edit the work.
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