Grade 5 – Understanding Your Child’s Performance: Below is a summary of skills and knowledge students must demonstrate to achieve each

performance level. A student should demonstrate mastery of knowledge and skills within his/her achievement level as well as all content and skills that precede
it. For example, a Proficient Learner should also possess the knowledge and skills of a Developing Learner and a Beginning Learner.

Beginning Learner Developing Learner Proficient Learner Distinguished Learner

English In general, your child can: In general, your child can: In general, your child can: In general, your child can:
• read texts below grade level • summarize texts near grade • determine a theme or main • determine a theme or main ideas
Language Arts • write simple narrative, level ideas and summarize complex, and summarize complex, above-
opinion, and • write loosely organized opinion grade-level texts grade-level texts
informative/explanatory and informative/explanatory • write opinion and • write multiparagraph opinion and
pieces using irrelevant facts, pieces using limited facts, informative/explanatory pieces
informative/explanatory pieces
reasons, or details reasons, or details that clearly link ideas, reasons,
with effectively supportive ideas,
• conduct research using two • write narratives with simple facts, or details reasons, facts, or details
sources to investigate a topic characters and few details • write narratives with • write well-developed narratives
• conduct research using several descriptive details and that convey characters,
sources to investigate a topic developed characters experiences, and events precisely
• conduct short research • conduct research projects using
projects to investigate several sources to analyze
different aspects of a topic information and provide evidence
supporting different aspects of a
topic
Mathematics In general, your child can: In general, your child can: In general, your child can: In general, your child can:
• identify the next number in a • identify patterns • create a pattern from a rule • explain patterns and relationships
pattern • write simple numerical • evaluate numerical expressions • solve multistep word problems
• write one-step numerical expressions • graph ordered pairs involving numerical expressions,
expressions • use grouping symbols • read, write, and compare adding and subtracting fractions,
• recognize place value names • read, write, and compare decimals to the thousandths finding area of rectangles,
• add and subtract decimals decimals to the tenths • multiply and divide multidigit multiplying mixed numbers, and
• add and subtract fractions • multiply multidigit numbers numbers dividing fractions
with like denominators • add, subtract, and multiply • add and subtract mixed • round decimals
• perform simple measurement decimals numbers • fluently add, subtract, multiply, and
conversions of length • add and subtract fractions with • add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals
• find volume of rectangular unlike denominators divide decimals • calculate multistep conversions of
prisms by counting unit cubes • multiply a fraction by a whole • find the area of rectangles with time, length, volume, and mass
• plot points on the coordinate • create line plots fractional sides • find side lengths, given volume
plane • find volume of rectangular • divide unit fractions and whole • graph and interpret real-world data
• identify two-dimensional prisms numbers in the first quadrant
figures • identify ordered pairs • calculate simple conversions of
• create line plots time, volume, and mass
• classify shapes • interpret line plots
• classify shapes by hierarchy
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Social Studies In general, your child can:
• identify key figures from major
events in American history
(1860-present)
• locate important physical
features
• recognize some citizens’ rights
and responsibilities
• identify some elements of a
personal budget
• define some economic
concepts
Science In general, your child can:
• identify surface features of
Earth
• recognize a physical change in
a substance
• recognize that common
objects are made of smaller
parts
• identify static electricity and
recognize that magnets attract
and repel
• identify an object as a
conductor or an insulator
• recognize that organisms can
be grouped as plants or
animals
• identify a cell
• recognize that offspring can
resemble parents
• record observations, analyze
numeric data and analyze
simple scientific experiments
Developing Learner Proficient Learner
In general, your child can: In general, your child can:
• identify the causes and • describe the consequences of
origins of major events in major events in American
American history (1860- history (1860-present)
present) • describe important physical
• identify the economic impact features and explain their
of important physical features impact on economics
• • explain due process in
describe how a citizen’s rights
are protected by the protecting citizens’ rights
Constitution • explain spending and saving
• describe the elements of a decisions as they relate to a
personal budget personal budget
• illustrate historical events • explain historical events and
using economic concepts interactions among
consumers, businesses, and
government using economic
concepts
In general, your child can: In general, your child can:
• differentiate between • identify surface features of
constructive and destructive Earth formed by constructive
processes and destructive processes
• identify characteristics of • explain the differences
physical and chemical changes between physical and chemical
• investigate properties of changes
electricity and magnetism • identify properties of
• recognize that living things can electricity and magnetism and
be classified by similarities their relationship to each other
• recognize a cell as the basic • classify organisms by
unit of life and recognize some characteristics and similarities
parts of the cell • recognize learned and
• understand that inherited traits
microorganisms can be both • label parts of plants and cells
harmful and beneficial • explain differences in single-
• recognize inherited traits and multi-celled organisms
• record scientific investigations, • explain why microorganisms
analyze investigations and can be harmful and beneficial
communicate information • accurately record and analyze
data and use reasoning to
explain observations of
scientific events
Distinguished Learner
In general, your child can:
• explain and analyze the causes
and consequences of major
events in American history (1860-
present)
• analyze the economic impact of
important physical features
• evaluate spending and saving
decisions as they relate to a
personal budget
• analyze historical events and
interactions among consumers,
businesses, and government
using economic concepts
In general, your child can:
• analyze the formation of surface
features
• recognize mass as the sum of an
object’s parts
• analyze the differences between
physical and chemical changes
before, during, and after a
change
• compare, contrast, and explain
the relationship between
electricity and magnetism
• provide supporting evidence
when classifying organisms
• recognize the role of genes in
inherited traits
• compare cells and cellular parts
• describe how microorganisms
benefit or harm other organisms
• describe observations using
various methods