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In fifth grade, students read a mix of literary and informational texts to strengthen their reading fluency and comprehension skills as well as expand their vocabulary.

Below are just some of the reading goals that fifth grade language arts activities should help your child achieve.

• Summarize and paraphrase information from a text
• Read and interpret charts, graphs and other graphic representations in a text
• Analyze a writer’s point of view and compare points of view from various writers on the same topic

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Writing skills will continue to be polished and built upon this year. A fifth grade language arts curriculum will help students learn and master tons of new writing concepts including the following:

• Use interjections, prepositions and conjunctions for more descriptive and elaborate writing
• Understand each of the five stages of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
• Write a narrative complete with an event, narrator and characters

Fifth grade language arts activities should provide students with plenty of opportunities to learn and practice new grammar skills in order to enhance their writing and communication. Below are some of the grammar goals and objectives that a 5th grade language arts curriculum should help your child achieve.

• Use punctuation in titles correctly with proper capitalization and quotation marks.
• Use correlative conjunctions correctly in a sentence: not only/but also, either/or, neither/nor
• Use perfect verb tense correctly and understand how they convey time of events

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 Grade 5 Social Studies is based on the history and geography of the Western Hemisphere, including the development of cultures, civilizations, and empires; interaction between societies; and the comparison of the government and economic systems of modern nations. Key Ideas cover a time span from prehistory into modern times.