These are the reading skills we will be covering this year.

Reading

• Character and Plot
• Cause and Effect
• Theme and Setting
• Fact and Opinion
• Questioning
• Inferring
• Text Structure
• Sequence
• Author’s Purpose
• Main Idea and Details
• Graphic Sources
• Draw Conclusions
• Generalize
• Prefixes and Suffixes
• Greek and Latin Roots
• Skills to Determine Meanings of Unknown Words
• Multiple Meaning Words

Writing

There are 3 primary purposes for writing in 5th grade:

• Narration or telling a story
• Expressing an opinion/feeling
• Inform/Explain

Spelling and Conventions