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Fifth Grade Reading Standards

 

Literary Reading

40% of Reading Assessed at Grade 7

 

Academic Expectation 1.2: Student will make sense of a variety of materials they read. (Literary Materials include whole texts and excerpts from short stories, novels, essays, poetry, and plays consisting of classical and modern texts and representing both historical and cultural perspectives.)

Core Content Assessed Through Literary Reading

RD-M-1.0.11: Explain the meaning of passages appropriate for intermediate level students.

RD-M-1.0.12: Identify characteristics of short stories, novels, poetry, and plays.

RD-M-1.0.13: Describe literary elements (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme, point of view) in a passage.

RD-M-1.0.14: Analyze the relationship between events in a story and a character’s behavior.

RD-M-1.0.15: Explain how a conflict in a passage is resolved.

RD-M-1.0.16: Identify literary devices such as foreshadowing, imagery, and figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole).

Informational Reading

25% of Reading Assessed at Grade 7

 

Academic Expectation 1.2: Student will make sense of a variety of materials they read. (Informational materials include whole texts and excerpts from journals, magazines, newspaper articles, letters, brochures, reference materials, essays, nonfiction books and electronic texts.)

Core Content Assessed Through Informational Reading

RD-M-2.0.11: Use text features (e.g., pictures, lists, charts, graphs, tables, tables of contents, indexes, glossaries, captions, diagrams, headings) to understand a passage.

RD-M-2.0.12: Apply knowledge of organizational patterns (e.g., cause and effect, comparison, contrast sequence) to understand a passage.

RD-M-2.0.13: Identify supporting details and explain their importance in a passage.

RD-M-2.0.14: Summarize Information from a passage.

Note: These standards introduce students to Core Content Grade 5-7

 

Persuasive Reading

15% of Reading Assessed at Grade 7

 

Academic Expectation 1.2: Student will make sense of a variety of materials they read. (Persuasive materials include whole texts and excerpts from materials such as magazine and newspaper articles, brochures, letters, proposals, speeches, editorials, electronic texts, essays, opinion columns, and advertisements.)

Core Content Assessed Through Persuasive Reading

RD-M-3.0.11: Distinguish between informative and persuasive passages

RD-M-3.0.12: Identify an author’s opinion about a subject.

RD-M-3.0.13: Apply knowledge of organizational patterns (cause and effect, comparison, contrast, sequence) to understand a passage.

RD-M-3.0.14: Distinguish between fact and opinion.

RD-M-3.0.15: Identify the argument and supporting evidence.

RD-M-3.0.16: Identify commonly used persuasive techniques (expert opinion, statistics, testimonial, bandwagon).

RD-M-3.0.17: Identify bias and/or misinformation.

Practical/Workplace Reading

20% of Reading Assessed at Grade 7

 

Academic Expectation 1.2: Student will make sense of a variety of materials they read. (Practical/Workplace materials include whole texts and excerpts from materials such as articles, letters, memos, brochures, electronic texts, warranties, recipes, forms, consumer texts, manuals, schedules, and directions.)

Core Content Assessed Through Practical Workplace Reading

RD-M-4.0.11: Locate and apply information for authentic purposes (following directions, completing a task).

RD-M-4.0.12: Identify the sequence of activities needed to carry out a procedure.

RD-M-4.0.13: Explain how organizational patterns and/or text features (pictures, charts, graphs, format) relate to the content of a practical/workplace passage.

RD-M-4.0.14: Interpret the meaning of specialized vocabulary.

Note: These standards introduce students Core Content Grades 5-7.

Fayette County Public Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMPETENCY ASSURANCE DOCUMENT for Reading

Developed from Academic Expectations 1.2,2.24, &2.25, Kentucky Program of Studies, and Kentucky’s Core Content for Reading Assessment 2003-2004 DRAFT

 

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