Radical Reading

5^TH GRADE ELA SKILLS

KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS: LITERATURE AND INFORMATIONAL TEXT

• Explain what the text says, draw inferences, determine theme, summarize, compare & contrast, determine main idea with supporting details, explain relationships or interactions

CRAFT AND STRUCTURE

• Determine the meaning of words and phrases in context, compare & contrast overall text structure, analyze multiple accounts of same topic, describe point of view

INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS

• Analyze visual and multimedia elements, compare & contrast within a genre, use information from multiple sources, explain how authors use reasons and evidence to support points, integrate information from several texts on same topic

LANGUAGE AND EDITING

• Demonstrate command of conventions of standard English grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling; including verb tenses, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections, commas, quotation marks

TEXT-BASED WRITING

• Write opinion texts supporting a point of view with reasons and information, write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly
• Introduce the topic clearly, create an organizational structure, develop the topic, link ideas, provide a concluding statement