Welcome to Fifth Grade!
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Purpose of the Guide
Students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools follow the state of North Carolina’s expectations for what every student will know and be able to do by the end of their current grade level. This guide is designed to help you support your child by understanding those expectations, provide everyday activities to reinforce their learning at home and partner with their teachers throughout the school year.
This guide includes…Key Skills for Reading and Math
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- Understand the most important things your child should know and be able to do by the end of the school year.
Questions to Ask Your Child
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- Engage in conversations with your child using these suggested reading and math questions.
Topics to Discuss with the Teacher
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- Find sample questions and topics you might want to talk about with the teacher related to reading and math skills.
Learning Activities
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- Explore some easy ways you can support your child’s learning important reading and math concepts and skills.
Words to Know
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- Learn some important words and acronyms used at school to “speak the same language”.
Helpful Resources to Practice Skills at Home
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- Click the link to access a collection of reading and math resources aligned to your child’s grade level.
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Resource Guides
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Quarter 1
- Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- Organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write.
What Does it Look Like?
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Quarter 2
Quarter 2
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, recognizing specific word choices that contribute to meaning and tone.
- With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing, with consideration to task and purpose.
What Does it Look Like?
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, recognizing specific word choices that contribute to meaning and tone.
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Quarter 3
Quarter 3
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Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question or to solve a problem efficiently.
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With guidance and support from adults, use digital tools and resources to produce and publish writing (using word processing skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
What does it look like?
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Quarter 4
Quarter 4
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Students explain how a narrator/speaker views events in a story and explain how the point of view impacts how events are described.
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Students combine information from multiple texts on the same topic when writing or speaking to demonstrate knowledge of the topic.
What Does it Look Like?
Activites to try:
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Coach to Fluent Reading: Draw attention to punctuation while reading and have the child reread to increase fluency after discussing the punctuation. Watch Coach to Fluent Reading.
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Help your child organize his/her thoughts by planning what he/she wants to write. Using sticky notes or a graphic organizer will provide a visual way to accomplish this.
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Encourage your child to write about a topic important to them. Have them include an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion.
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Model writing in everyday life. Encourage your child to make a list, write a “thank you” note, write a product review, or write instructions about how to take care of a plant or a pet.
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Quarter 1
- Find Volume of Rectangular Prisms
- Students build on their understanding of area to find the volume of rectangular prisms. Students should reason about why the formula for volume is true by connecting it to packing cubes and real life situations.
- Students find the Volume of figures composed of two rectangular prisms.
- Apply Order of Operations
- Student apply Order of Operations in 2-Step expressions.
- Relate Division and Fractions
- Multiply a Fraction and a Whole Number
- Multiply Two Fractions
- Multiply a fraction by a fraction
- Divide Fractions
- Find Volume of Rectangular Prisms
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Quarter 2
- Multiply Multi-Digit Whole Numbers
- Online Multiplication Game: Multiplication Compare
- Divide Multi-Digit Whole Numbers by a Two-Digit Number.
- Using the Area Model and Interpreting Remainders
- Add and Subtract Decimals to the Thousandths Place
- Multiply Multi-Digit Whole Numbers
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Quarter 3
- Multiply Decimals
- Divide Decimals
- Divide Decimal by a Whole Number
- Divide a Whole Number by a Decimal
- Convert between Measurement Units in the Same System
- Add and Subtract Fractions and Mixed Numbers
- Multiply Fractions and Mixed Numbers
- Multiply a mixed number by another mixed number.
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Quarter 4
- Classify Quadrilaterals and their Attributes in a Hierarchy
- Students use a hierarchy to classify quadrilaterals.
- Plot Points and Extend Patterns on a Coordinate Plane
- Plotting points on a Coordinate Plane