The Illinois Learning Standards (ILS) define what all students in all Illinois public schools should know and be able to do in the seven core areas as a result of their elementary and secondary schooling.
Common Core Website: http://www.corestandards.org/
Next Generation Science Standards: http://www.nextgenscience.org/
Common Core Website: http://www.corestandards.org/
Next Generation Science Standards: http://www.nextgenscience.org/
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Illinois adopted the Common Core Standards for ELA in 2010 and teachers and administrators across the state implemented the new standards during the 2013-14 school year. This set of academic standards has been designed to help ensure that all students are college and career ready no later than the end of high school. In shifting to these standards we will see changes in the work our students encounter.
The Illinois Learning Standards (ILS) for English Language Arts (ELA) establish clear and coherent expectations for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. By emphasizing depth over breadth, the ILS for ELA ensures students are provided comprehensive understanding of key concepts. The Common Core ELA standards set a level of high quality, rigorous expectations for all students which emphasize application of knowledge to real world situations and prepare students for the challenges of college and career.
The ILS for math are designed to help students acquire a deep, conceptual understanding of core math content by adding focus, coherence, and rigor to learning. Focus is the study of a few key concepts; shifting teaching/learning from a mile long and an inch deep model to deeper understanding of fewer concepts. Coherence is making math connections between grade levels logical building on progression. Rigor is the equal balance of conceptual understanding, application, and procedural skill and fluency. These key shifts in math teaching and learning will focus on concept mastery and will allow students to build upon previous skills, create opportunities for deeper conceptual mathematical understanding and application.
Illinois' current science standards became effective in February 2014 and are based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Forty-one experts, including three Illinois educators, wrote the NGSS. State-level committees in 26 states reviewed the learning benchmarks. These groups confirmed that the design and development of the NGSS were guided by the best available evidence to ensure that students who meet these standards are prepared for postsecondary education and careers in the 21st century.
The ILS also have student expectations for speaking and listening, language, and writing. Together we will work to provide your child with the most meaningful education possible as we move to align our methods with the new Common Core Standards.
For more information on the ILS or to see a complete list of standards that will be mastered this year in fifth grade, please visit the links posted above.
- FIFTH GRADE TEAM
The following Math, Language Arts and Science Standards will be mastered this year in fifth grade:
Math
I Can Use Algebra to Help Me Understand Math
I can use parentheses and brackets in expressions. 5.OA.1
I can write expressions I hear using mathematic symbols and the order of operations. 5.OA.2
Use numerical rules and patterns to form ordered pairs. Graph the ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. 5.OA.3
I Can Use Place Value and Operations to Help Me Understand Math
I can understand and explain the value of digits. 5.NBT.1
I can explain patterns when multiplying a number by powers of 10. 5.NBT.2
I can explain patterns when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. 5.NBT.2
I can read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths. 5.NBT.3
I can use place value understanding to round decimals to any place. 5.NBT.4
I can multiply multi-digit whole numbers. 5.NBT.5 I can divide four-digit dividends by two-digit divisors. 5.NBT.6
I can illustrate and explain a division problem using equations, arrays and/or models. 5.NBT.6
I can add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths. I can use concrete models or drawings to explain the method used. 5.NBT.7
I Can Use Fractions to Help Me Understand Math
I can add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators and mixed numbers. 5.NF.1
I can solve word problems that involve fractions. 5.NF.2
I can understand that fractions are really the division of a numerator by the denominator. 5.NF.3
I can solve word problems where I divide whole numbers to create an answer that is a mixed number. 5.NF.3
I can multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction. 5.NF.4
I can think of multiplication as the scaling of a number (similar to a scale on a map.) 5.NF.5
I can solve real world problems by multiplying fractions and mixed numbers. 5.NF.6
I can divide fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by fractions. 5.NF.7
I can Use Measurement & Data to Help Me Understand Math
I can convert measurements within the same measuring system. 5.MD.1
I can make a line plot to display data sets of measurements in fractions. 5.MD.2
I can use fraction operations to solve problems involving information presented on a line plot. 5.MD.2
I can understand volume. 5.MD.3
I can measure volume by counting unit cubes. 5.MD.4
I can solve real world problems involving volume. 5.MD.5
I can find the volume of an object using the formulas V = l x w x h and V = b x h. 5.MD.5
I Can Use Geometry to Help Me Understand Math
I can understand how to graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. 5.G.1
I can graph and interpret points in the first quadrant of a coordinate plane. 5.G.2
I can classify shapes into categories. 5.G.3
I can classify shapes based on properties. 5.G.4
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
I can compare and contrast characters, setting or events. RL.5.3
I Can Read Nonfiction
I can quote accurately from a text. RI.5.1
I can find the main idea. RI.5.2
I can find how the main idea is supported by details. RI.5.2
I can summarize what I have read. IL.5.2
I can tell how people, events, ideas or concepts are related. RI.5.3
I Can Understand Fiction
I can understand figurative language. RL.5.4
I can understand similes and metaphors. RL.5.4
I can understand the structures of stories, plays and poems. RL.5.5
I know how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences a story. RL.5.6 I Can Understand Nonfiction
I can understand science and social studies words. RI.5.4
I can compare and contrast texts. RI.5.5
I can compare and contrast two texts that tell about the same event or topic. RI.5.6
I Can Use What I Know To Understand Fiction
I can explain how visuals contribute to a story. RL.5.7
I can compare and contrast stories from the same genre. RL.5.9
I Can Use What I Know To Understand Nonfiction
I can use texts to locate an answer or to solve a problem. RI.5.7
I can explain how authors support an idea. RI.5.8
I can put together ideas from different texts to talk about a topic. RI.5.9
I Can Read and Understand Fifth Grade Fiction RI.5.10
I Can Read and Understand Fifth Grade Nonfiction RI.5.10
I Can Use Phonics to Help Me Read Fifth Grade Words RF.5.3
I Can Read Fluently and Accurately RF.5.4
Speaking and Listening
I Can Understand and Talk About What I Hear
I can engage effectively in discussions. SL.5.1
I can come to discussions prepared to share my ideas. SL.5.1
I can follow rules for discussions and complete my role. SL.5.1
I can pose and respond to questions in a discussion. SL.5.2
I can review key ideas and draw conclusions after a discussion. SL.5.3
I can summarize what I read, see, and hear. SL.5.2
I can summarize the points a speaker makes. SL.5.2
I Can Share What I Know
I can give a report in a logical sequence. SL.5.4
I can speak clearly and at a good pace. SL.5.4
I can use displays to help my presentations. SL.5.5
I can use formal English when appropriate. SL.5.6
Language
I Can Use Proper English When I Write and Speak
I can explain the use of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. L.5.1
I can form and use the perfect verb tenses. L.5.1
I can use verb tenses to show meaning. L.5.1
I can fix verb tenses that are used incorrectly. L.5.1
I can use either/ or and neither/ nor correctly. L.5.1
I can use commas correctly. L.5.2
I can use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of words. L.5.2
I can spell fifth grade words correctly. L.5.2
I Can Use What I Know About Language in Different Situations
I can expand, combine and reduce sentences to make them more interesting. L.5.3
I can compare and contrast English used in writing. L.5.3
I Can Figure Out What Words Mean and Use Them in Different Situations
I can use context clues to help me understand new words. L.5.4
I can use affixes and roots to help me learn new words. L.5.4
I can use root words to help me learn new words. L.5.4
I can use dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses to help me understand and pronounce new words. L.5.4
I can interpret figurative language. L.5.5
I can explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, proverbs. L.5.5
I can use the relationship of synonyms, antonyms, and homographs to help me understand each word. . L.5.5
I can use fifth grade words. L.5.6
Writing
I Can Write Different Types of Writing
I can write to persuade. W.5.1
I can write to teach. W.5.2
I can write to tell a story. W5.3
I Can Make My Writing Better
I can write clearly. W.5.4
I can write for different purposes, audiences, and topics. W.5.4
I can edit and revise my writing with peers and teachers. W.5.5
With the support of adults, I can use technology to produce and publish writing. W.5.6
I Can Use Research to Help My Writing
I can conduct short research projects. W.5.7
I can research and use what I have experienced to gather information. W.5.8
I can use stories and nonfiction to research. W.5.9
I can write on a regular basis with stamina for different tasks, purposes, and audiences. W.5.10
Science:
Matter and Energy in Ecosystems
Scientific Method and Mystery Boxes (Engineering Design)
· Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost (3-5-ETS1-1)
· Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem (3-5-ETS1-2)
· Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved (3-5-ETS1-3)
Unit A Chapter 1: Classifying Living Things/ Unit B Chapter 5: Interactions of Living Things
· Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun (5-PS3-1)
· Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water (5-LS1-1)
· Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers and the environment (5-LS2-1)
· Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life (PS3.D)
· Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms (LS1.C)
· Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems (LS2.A)
· Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems (LS2.B)
Earth’s Systems
Unit B Chapter 6: Ecosystems/Unit C Chapter 7: Landforms, Rocks and Minerals
· Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact (5-ESS2-1)
· Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth (5-ESS2-2)
· Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment (ESS3-1)
· Earth Materials and Systems (ESS2.A)
· The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes (ESS2.C)
· Human Impacts on Earth Systems (ESS3.C)
Structure and Properties of Matter
Unit E: Properties of Matter and Energy
· Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen (5-PS1-1)
· Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved (5-PS1-2)
· Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties (5-PS1-3)
· Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances (5-PS1-4)
· Structure and Properties of Matter (PS1.A)
· Chemical Reactions (PS1.B)
Space Systems: Stars and the Solar System
Unit D: Astronomy
· Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down (5-PS2-1)
· Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth (5-ESS1-1)
· Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearances of some stars in the night sky (5-ESS1-2)
· Types of Interactions (PS2.B)
· The Universe and its Stars (ESS1.A)
· Earth and the Solar System (ESS1.B)
PARCC Assessment
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
http://www.parcconline.org/
The PARCC member states share this fundamental goal: ensuring that every student graduates from high school prepared for success in college and the workplace.
The PARCC states’ high quality assessments will allow parents and educators to see how children are progressing in school and whether they are on track for postsecondary success. The PARCC assessment also provides teachers with the ability to identify students who may be falling behind and need extra help.
Fifth grade PARCC assessments will occur the first part of March and May. Students will be assessed in two main content areas: English Language Arts/Literacy and Math.
The PARCC homepage link has a great deal of valuable information including sample items, questions, explanations and other rational on the new PARCC Assessment that is being developed for the new CCGPS. Below are links for Grade and Subject Information on the New PARCC Assessment. The Link will either take you to the PARCC Website for Content Framework, Summative Assessment, or where available, a PDF Copy of information and sample task for that grade and subject. Links are in order by Subject Area.
English Language Arts/Literacy:
http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/english/
Math
http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/math/