Fifth Grade language arts skills once again build upon language arts skills leaned in previous years. Vocabulary words get more difficult, grammar gets more complicated, and writing gets more detailed. Here is part 2 of things your fifth grader needs to learn in language arts.
Spelling: There are numerous workbooks and websites you can use for a fifth grade spelling list and exercises. I found a complete fifth grade-spelling list with lesson suggestions at YourDictionary.com
Grammar for fifth grade teaches topics to make your child’s writing flow better and polishes their writing for ease of reading. These topics are plurals and possessives, kinds of sentences, and parts of sentences.
Cursive handwriting: By fifth grade, a student’s cursive writing must be completely legible.
Writing for Fifth Grade includes several topics that are imperative for getting the message across to readers. A student needs to be able to make an outline to prepare to write an essay and they need to be able to write well-constructed paragraphs. Writing letters, stories, reports, poems, plays, and preparing a simple bibliography are also important skills. In addition, a fifth grade student must be able to use proofreading skills to find errors in their writing.
Parts of a newspaper: By fifth grade, students should be able to read a newspaper, cover to cover and how to find different types of articles in the different parts on the newspaper.
Using study materials: Fifth graders should be able to research and study on their own. They must be able to understand and use keys, tables, graphs, charts, legends, library catalogs, index, and table of contents, reference materials, and maps.
In addition to the website tools I mentioned, there are also several complete language arts curriculum’s that you can purchase. Some of my favorites are SCORE! Mountain Challenge Language Arts Workbook, Grade 5 Editor in Chief books, and Critical Thinking READING DETECTIVE BOOK A GR. 5-6 – 1 book.
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