Oklahoma 5th Grade ELA Standards in Critical Reading and Writing

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5.3 Critical Reading and Writing

• Reading: Students will analyze, interpret, and evaluate increasingly complex literary and informational texts that include a wide range of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives from a variety of genres.
  • 5.3.R.1 Students will determine the author’s purpose (i.e., entertain, inform, persuade), and draw conclusions to determine if the author’s purpose was achieved.
  • 5.3.R.2 Students will determine whether a grade-level literary text is narrated in first- or third-person point of view (limited and omniscient) and describe its effect.
  • 5.3.R.3 Students will determine how literary elements contribute to the meaning of a literary text:
    • 5.3.R.3.a setting
    • 5.3.R.3.b plot
    • 5.3.R.3.c characters (i.e., protagonist, antagonist)
    • 5.3.R.3.d characterization
    • 5.3.R.3.e conflict
    • 5.3.R.3.f theme
  • 5.3.R.4 Students will determine how literary devices contribute to the meaning of a text:
    • 5.3.R.4.a imagery
    • 5.3.R.4.b metaphor
    • 5.3.R.4.c idiom
    • 5.3.R.4.d personification
    • 5.3.R.4.e hyperbole
    • 5.3.R.4.f simile
    • 5.3.R.4.g alliteration
    • 5.3.R.4.h onomatopoeia
  • 5.3.R.5 Students will analyze ideas in one or more texts, providing textual evidence to support their inferences.
  • 5.3.R.6 Students will distinguish fact from opinion in an informational text and explain how reasons and facts support specific points.
  • 5.3.R.7 Students will distinguish the structures of informational texts:
    • 5.3.R.7 a compare/contrast
    • 5.3.R.7 b cause/effect
    • 5.3.R.7 c problem/solution
    • 5.3.R.7 d description
    • 5.3.R.7 e sequential
• Writing: Students will thoughtfully and intentionally write, addressing a range of modes, purposes, and audiences.
  • 5.3.W.1 Students will compose narratives reflecting real or imagined experiences that:
    • 5.3.W.1.a include plots with a climax and resolution
    • 5.3.W.1.b include developed characters who overcome conflicts and use dialogue
    • 5.3.W.1.c use a consistent point of view
    • 5.3.W.1.d unfold in chronological sequence
    • 5.3.W.1.e use sentence variety, sensory details, and vivid language to create interest
    • 5.3.W.1.f model literary elements and/or literary devices from mentor texts
  • 5.3.W.2 Students will compose informative essays that
    • 5.3.W.2.a introduce and develop a topic
    • 5.3.W.2.b incorporate evidence (e.g., specific facts, examples, charts, and graphs)
    • 5.3.W.2.c maintain an organized structure with transitional words and phrases
    • 5.3.W.2.d use sentence variety and word choice to create interest
    • 5.3.W.2.e model literary devices from mentor texts
  • 5.3.W.3 Students will write opinion essays that:
    • 5.3.W.3.a introduce a topic and state a clear opinion
    • 5.3.W.3.b incorporate relevant, text-based evidence to support the opinion
    • 5.3.W.3.c use sentence variety and word choice to create interest
    • 5.3.W.3.d organize writing in a logical sequence with transitional words and phrases