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Standard 5^th Grade

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Language Arts Standards

1.4 Select a focus, organizational structure, and point of view for an oral presentation.

1.5 Clarify and support spoken ideas with evidence and examples

1.6 Engage the audience with appropriate verbal cues, facial expressions, and gestures.

1.8 Analyze media as sources for information, entertainment, persuasion, interpretation of

events, and transmission of culture.

2.2 Deliver informative presentations about an important idea, issue, or event by the following means:

a. Frame questions to direct the investigation.

b. Establish a controlling idea or topic

c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.

2.4 Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with

textual evidence and prior knowledge.

1.3 Use organizational features of printed text (e.g., citations, end notes, bibliographic

references) to locate relevant information.

1.4 Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing organizational

features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down menus, word searches, the thesaurus,

spell checks).

1.5 Use a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings.

2.3 Write research reports about important ideas, issues, or events by using the following guidelines:

a. Frame questions that direct the investigation.

b. Establish a controlling idea or topic.

c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.

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b. Develop a testable question

c. Plan and conduct a simple investigation based on a student-developed question

and write instructions others can follow to carry out the procedure.

d. Identify the dependent and controlled variables in an investigation.

e. Identify a single independent variable in a scientific investigation and explain

how this variable can be used to collect information to answer a question about

the results of the experiment.

f. Select appropriate tools (e.g., thermometers, meter sticks, balances, and graduated

cylinders) and make quantitative observations.

g. Record data by using appropriate graphic representations (including charts,

graphs, and labeled diagrams) and make inferences based on those data.

h. Draw conclusions from scientific evidence and indicate whether further information

is needed to support a specific conclusion.

i. Write a report of an investigation that includes conducting tests, collecting data

or examining evidence, and drawing conclusions.