Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all fifth grade students to be successful when they advance to sixth grade. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery takes time to develop and may take the full school year.

READING

• Read and correctly spell multisyllabic words encountered in grade-level texts.

• Reads and understands grade-level text with ease, self-correcting as needed.

  Quotes from the literary text to analyze stated and implied meaning.

• Determine theme and cite evidence to support analysis.

• Compares and contrasts characters, setting, and events in a story.

• Analyzes how words and phrases shape the meaning of the text.

• Compare and contrast the overall structure of two or more texts.

• Describes the narrator's point of view and how it influences the story.

• Independently applies comprehension strategies and background knowledge to understand and analyze complex fiction and nonfiction texts.

• Quotes from informational text to analyze stated and implied meaning.

• Determine central idea and cite evidence to support analysis. 

• Explains how an author uses reasons and evidence to support a claim.

• Compare and contrast two texts and their approaches to similar information.

• Independently applies comprehension strategies and background knowledge to understand and analyze complex fiction and nonfiction texts.

HANDWRITING

• Writes multiple original sentences in cursive

• Can read and understand cursive writing

• Writes their own name fluently in cursive

WRITING/COMPOSITION

• Composes cohesive opinion pieces that support a perspective with logically ordered reasons, facts, and details.

• Composes cohesive informational pieces that clearly introduce a topic and focus, logically organize information, and develop ideas with precise facts, details, and explanations.

• Composes narratives that establish a situation and develop characters with narrative techniques, pacing, and an organized sequence of events.

• Writes complete sentences using the correct verb tenses.

• Uses commas, quotation marks, and correct punctuation when writing.

• Uses context clues to determine meaning of words.

MATH

• Multiplies up to a four-digit by a two-digit number.

• Divides up to a four-digit number by a two-digit number.

• Adds and subtracts decimals to the hundredths place.

• Multiplies decimals to the hundredths place.

• Divides decimals to the hundredths place.

• Plots points in the coordinate plane.

• Solves word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions.

• Multiplies a fraction by a whole number or a fraction.

• Calculates the volume of right rectangular prisms.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Uses evidence when creating claims to answer challenging questions.

• Analyzes primary and secondary sources while observing various perspectives.

• Uses evidence from multiple sources to answer challenging questions.

• Creates a product to show how different perspectives influenced the founding of the United States.

• Creates an argument with evidence from multiple sources about a founding principle.

• Uses examples from U.S. history to address a current problem.

• Identifies civic responsibilities and make connections to a current issue.

SCIENCE

• Measures and graphs evidence of how matter can change and be conserved.

• Uses observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

• Develops a model to describe the movement of matter within a food web.

• Develops a model to explain how earth, water, gases, and life interact.

• Uses graphs to show the patterns of day and night (shadows, changes of the stars).