Grade 5 » Composition

Description: Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

Writing process

Description: The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.

5.11.A

Description: Plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.B.i

Description: Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, and a conclusion.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.B.ii

Description: Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.C

Description: Revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.i

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.ii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: past tense of irregular verbs.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.iii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: collective nouns.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.iv

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.ix

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.v

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: conjunctive adverbs.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.vi

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.vii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: pronouns, including indefinite.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.viii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.x

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including quotation marks in dialogue and commas in compound and complex sentences.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.11.D.xi

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

Genres

Description: The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.

5.12.A

Description: Compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.12.B

Description: Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

5.12.C

Description: Compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts