Elementary Standards and Resources
A Note to Fifth Grade Parents
Fifth graders work hard on projects and tasks that require them to draw
on all of the skills and strategies they have been learning in elementary
school. Schoolwork gets more difficult, and teachers challenge students
with long-term projects that require planning and organization.
Fifth graders
are asked to read a lot in a variety of subject areas. They'll learn
to analyze characters, plot, and settings, as well as to recognize an author's
purpose for writing and his organizational strategies. By reading all the time
in their classrooms, in libraries, and at home, they'll be able to find what
they like to read. Reading for pleasure helps students build their vocabulary
and fosters a lifelong love of literature.
Fifth graders have become skillful
writers with their own individual styles. They produce and present research
projects, and write more complex narratives
and creative fiction. They are asked to edit their writing, using what they
have learned about the rules of grammar, spelling and punctuation. As in
reading, they should be encouraged to explore writing for personal expression,
putting
their often intense feelings onto paper through poetry, stories, and song
writing.
Fifth graders learn to solve complex problems with complex numbers.
They divide whole numbers, with and without remainders. They make connections
between decimals,
fractions, and percentages. They learn to multiply and divide fractions
and to do the same operations using the powers of time. They apply these
skills
to the
real world by solving problems about time, measurement, and money. By this
stage, fifth graders have developed the ability to think logically about
concrete problems.
This means that when they look at a problem, they can pull out the necessary
facts and strategies needed to solve it, and then move those thoughts around
in different ways until they are able to figure it out.
Click on the links
below in order to see the specific skills that your child will be learning
this year:
Resources:
Parents: Kindergarten - First - Second - Third - Fourth - Fifth Students: Kindergarten - First - Second - Third - Fourth - Fifth
Content collected and organized by Sheryl Sanders |
