Fifth Grade Reading Skills
Fifth Grade Reading Skills
- Reads orally with fluency based on rate, intonation, phrasing, and naturalness
- Self-corrects when reading miscues
- Reads fluently with understanding
- Utilizes prior knowledge
- Extends word patterns (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings)
- Expands sight vocabulary
- Decodes unknown words using the three-cueing system (e.g., semantics/context meaning, syntax/sentence structure, graphophonic/sound-symbol correspondence)
- Expands usage of antonyms, synonyms, homonyms
- Differentiates between contractions and possessives
- Utilizes spelling patterns and phonetic generalizations (e.g., â = awful, caught)
- Uses multiple meanings of words/homographs
- Uses figurative language/sound devices (e.g., rhyming, alliteration, onomatopoeia)
- Identifies/spells frequently-used words correctly
- Identifies analogies
- Utilizes visual aids to completely understand the passage (e. g., picture, list, table, chart, graph)
- Identifies and applies knowledge of organizational patterns (e.g., sequence,
- cause and effect, compare/contrast)
- Locates, summarizes, and combines information from different sources
- Identifies and makes inferences
- Skims and scans to locate key information
- Retells stories
- Utilizes parts of a book (e.g., table of contents, glossary, index, title page, headings and captions)
- Identifies story elements (e.g., character, setting, plot, theme, mood/tone, conflict, and solution)
- Rereads to determine meaning
- Identifies and summarizes main idea and supporting details
- Makes predictions, draws conclusions, and infers meaning
- Identifies and utilizes variety of resource texts (e.g., encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, computer)
- Identifies point of view (e.g., first person, third person)
- Interprets figurative language/literary devises (e.g., similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperboles)
- Identifies and creates genres (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, biography, poetry)
- Identifies author’s purpose (e.g., inform, entertain, persuade, describe)
- Connects literature to real-life situations
- Understands meaning of a passage from a selection
- Identifies fact and opinion
- Distinguishes between informative and persuasive passages
- Identifies author’s position (author’s personal view)
- Utilizes prior knowledge
- Follows the directions in a passage
- Locates and applies appropriate information (e.g., phone book, manuals, menu, order forms)
- Identifies sequence of activities needed to carry out a procedure
- Interprets specialized vocabulary
- Identifies information which provides additional clarity (e.g., bold-faced print, illustrations, italics)
- Follows multi-step directions
- Listens to and comprehends oral reading
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