Hampton School District

Grade 5 at a Glance

Language Arts

• Reading Process - predict outcomes, analyze characters, make personal connections, think inferentially, analyze multiple sources, and summarize

• Literary Skills - story components, figurative language, foreshadowing, genre identification

• Nonfiction/Informational - text features, text structure (cause and effect, problem/solution, sequence, fact/opinion, compare/contrast, description)

• Speaking and Listening- engaging in collaborative discussions, summarizing, reporting on topics, adapts speaking to the task

• Writing Process –  narrative, informational, persuasive argument,  journal writing

  • Process: brainstorm, web, draft, revise, conference, and edit

  • Product: focus and ideas, organization, topic development, voice, word choice, sentence structure, and conventions

• Grammar and Mechanics - parts of speech, usage, punctuation, capitalization

• Word Study - spelling, vocabulary, roots

• Research and Study Skills - effective and appropriate sources of information, strategies for reading comprehension, summarizing, and note taking

Math Topics

• Computational and problem solving skills with whole numbers, decimals, and fractions using the four operations

• Place value, calculation, and estimation

• Graph and analyze data

• Convert units of measurement - customary and metric

• Geometry - volume and area with fractional sides and attributes of polygons

• Patterns, functions, and algebra

Science Topics

• Matter and its Interactions

• Earth’s Place in the Universe

• Earth’s Systems, Earth and Human Activity

• Energy, the Food Chain and Ecosystems

• STEAM and Scientific inquiry

Social Studies

• United States Colonization and the Revolutionary War

• United States Government/ Constitution

• United States Westward Expansion

• United States Civil War

• Economics

• Inquiry based research

Supporting Learning at Home

• Homework is given Monday through Thursday in multiple subject-areas.

• Students should read regularly at home.

• We use an agenda book to promote clear and consistent communication.

• Students may also be assigned book projects.

• Homework is generally meant for students to do independently, but we do encourage checking your child’s work.