Oklahoma 5th Grade ELA Standards in Language

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5.5 Language

• Reading: Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to comprehend, analyze, and/or evaluate a variety of texts.
  • 5.5.R.1 Students will recognize simple, compound, and complex (i.e., independent and dependent clauses) sentences.
  • 5.5.R.2 Students will recognize and explain the impact on meaning of parts of speech in sentences:
    • 5.5.R.2.a nouns
    • 5.5.R.2.b verb tense to identify settings, times, sequences, and conditions
    • 5.5.R.2.c subject and verb agreement
    • 5.5.R.2.d adjectives
    • 5.5.R.2.e prepositional phrases
    • 5.5.R.2.f intensive pronouns and their antecedents
    • 5.5.R.2.g coordinating conjunctions
    • 5.5.R.2.h adverbs
    • 5.5.R.2.i interjections
• Writing: Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to speak and write effectively, demonstrating standard usage when appropriate.
  • 5.5.W.1 Students will compose simple, compound, and complex (i.e., independent and dependent clauses) sentences.
  • 5.5.W.2 Students will use nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, and pronouns to add clarity and variety to their writing.
  • 5.5.W.3 Students will recognize and correct the following: run-ons, errors in subject and verb agreement, inappropriate shifts in verb tense, and inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.
  • 5.5.W.4 Students will write using correct capitalization mechanics.
  • 5.5.W.5 Students will write using correct end mark mechanics.
  • 5.5.W.6 Students will use the correct forms of it’s/its, you’re/your, and they’re/there/their.
  • 5.5.W.7 Students will use commas to separate individual words in a series, to indicate dialogue, and to separate the independent and dependent clauses in a complex sentence.
  • 5.5.W.8 Students will use a colon to introduce a list.
  • 5.5.W.9 Students will use quotation marks to indicate dialogue, quoted material, and titles of works.
  • 5.5.W.10 Students will use underlining or italics to indicate titles of works.
  • 5.5.W.11 Students will use a semicolon to punctuate compound sentences.