ELA Common Core Standards: Leaping into Language Arts Grade 5

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Leaping into Language Arts Grade 5 is a full year’s ELA resource that covers these main topics:

Sentences

What kinds of sentences are there in the English language?

What is the difference between a fragment and a sentence?

How can you change a run-on sentence to a complete sentence?

How can you construct compound sentences with basic conjunctions?

Capitalization

When are holidays and seasons capitalized?

Which titles and places are capitalized?

Are names of newspapers, books, songs, and poems capitalized?

Punctuation

How do the end punctuation marks change for the four types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory?

What is meant by using a comma in a series?

Where do you place a comma for dates?

Where do you place a comma in addresses?

Do you use a comma or a colon in the greeting and closing of letters?

Which punctuation mark is used to set off speaking to someone?

Which introductory phrases must end with a comma?

Do you use quotation marks or italics for titles of stories, songs, poems, books, movies, TV shows, newspapers, and magazines?

Abbreviations

What is an abbreviation?

How do you abbreviate the days of the week and months of the year?

What is the proper abbreviation for streets and highways?

Are the English and metric systems of measurement abbreviated? How?

What is the proper abbreviation for states, provinces, and territories?

Which words that measure time are abbreviated?

Parts of Speech

How do you change singular nouns into plural nouns?

What is meant by irregular plural nouns?

Do some singular nouns remain the same for their plural forms?

How are common nouns different from proper nouns?

What verbs are linking verbs?

How can you change verbs to different tenses (i.e., past, present, future)?

What is meant by verb agreement?

How do possessive pronouns differ from regular pronouns?

What are antecedents and which punctuation marks are needed?

What is a prepositional phrase?

Vocabulary

How are synonyms, antonyms, and homophones different?

How do you make a compound word?

How do prefixes and suffixes change words?

What are some 5th-grade level Greek and Latin roots?

What is meant by multi-meaning words? How do you determine their meanings in sentences?

Writing

How can you determine the main idea of a text?

Which types of details support the main ideas of a text?

How do factual and opinion writing differ?

How do you write an informational text?

What is narrative writing?

What is meant by functional writing? 

Common Core Standards Aligned with the Text:

Conventions of Standard English

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Knowledge of Language

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.3
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.6
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).

Leaping into Language Arts Grade 5 is the only ELA resource you will need to teach language skills to your students. The lessons have simple explanations and offer sufficient practice of the skill before proceeding to the next skill. If you want your students to excel in language and build confidence along the way, check out this comprehensive resource!

What's Included

A total of 257 pages including an Answer Key.