California Language Arts Standards
WRITING
Grade Five
1.0 Writing Strategies
Students write clear, coherent, and focused essays. The writing exhibits
the students' awareness of the audience and purpose. Essays contain formal
introductions, supporting evidence, and conclusions. Students progress
through the stages of the writing process as needed.
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Organization and Focus
1.1 Create multiple-paragraph narrative compositions:
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a. Establish and develop a situation or plot.
b. Describe the setting.
c. Present an ending.
1.2 Create multiple-paragraph expository compositions:
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a. Establish a topic, important ideas, or events in sequence or chronological
order.
b. Provide details and transitional expressions that link one paragraph
to another in a clear line of thought. c. Offer a concluding paragraph
that summarizes important ideas and details.
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Research and Technology
1.3 Use organizational features of printed text (e.g., citations, end
notes, bibliographic references) to locate relevant information.
1.4 Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing
organizational features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down menus, word
searches, the thesaurus, spell checks).
1.5 Use a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings.
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Evaluation and Revision
1.6 Edit and revise manuscripts to improve the meaning and focus of
writing by adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging
words and sentences.
2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students write narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive texts
of at least 500 to 700 words in each genre. Student writing demonstrates
a command of standard American English and the research, organizational,
and drafting strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0. Using the writing
strategies of grade five outlined in Writing Standard 1.0, students:
2.1 Write narratives:
a. Establish a plot, point of view, setting, and conflict.
b. Show, rather than tell, the events of the story.
2.2 Write responses to literature:
a. Demonstrate an understanding of a literary work.
b. Support judgments through references to the text and to prior knowledge.
c. Develop interpretations that exhibit careful reading and understanding.
2.3 Write research reports about important ideas, issues, or events by
using the following guidelines:
a. Frame questions that direct the investigation.
b. Establish a controlling idea or topic.
c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.
2.4 Write persuasive letters or compositions:
a. State a clear position in support of a proposal.
b. Support a position with relevant evidence.
c. Follow a simple organizational pattern.
d. Address reader concerns.
WRITTEN AND ORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS
Grade Five
The standards for written and oral English language conventions have
been placed between those for writing and for listening and speaking because
these conventions are essential to both sets of skills.
1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions
Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions
appropriate to this grade level.
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Sentence Structure
1.1 Identify and correctly use prepositional phrases, appositives, and
independent and dependent clauses; use transitions and conjunctions to
connect ideas.
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Grammar
1.2 Identify and correctly use verbs that are often misused (e.g., lie/lay,
sit/set, rise/raise), modifiers, and pronouns.
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Punctuation
1.3 Use a colon to separate hours and minutes and to introduce a list;
use quotation marks around the exact words of a speaker and titles of poems,
songs, short stories, and so forth.
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Capitalization
1.4. Use correct capitalization.
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Spelling
1.5 Spell roots, suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable constructions
correctly.
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