5th grade · Reading & Literature
What a 5th grade student learns in Reading & Literature
Grade 5 Reading & Literature centers on deeper analysis of complex stories, dramas, and poetry: students quote text precisely to support inferences, determine themes via character responses and speaker reflections, examine narrative structure and point-of-view influence, interpret figurative language, and compare same-genre approaches to shared themes.
The skills for the year
- 1Quote accurately from literary text to explain explicit meaning and support inferences
- 2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from textual details
- 3Analyze how characters respond to challenges (or how a poem’s speaker reflects on a topic) to reveal theme
- 4Summarize stories, dramas, and poems objectively using key details
- 5Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events drawing on specific textual details
- 6Determine the meaning of words and phrases, including metaphors and similes, as used in literary text
- 7Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to create overall structure
- 8Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences the description of events
- 9Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to meaning, tone, or beauty of a literary text
- 10Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries, adventures) on their treatment of similar themes or topics
- 11Identify and discuss literary elements (plot, conflict, characterization) with precise textual evidence
- 12Read and comprehend literature (stories, dramas, poetry) at the high end of the grades 4–5 complexity band independently and proficiently
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