5th Grade CCSS: Language

For fifth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the rules for using the English language, including vocabulary use and language conventions, in order to improve their skills as writers and readers. Among the complete standards for this grade, fifth graders will be asked to: demonstrate that they understand standard English usage in writing and speaking by showing that they understand the function of conjunctions, prepositions, interjections, the perfect verb tense, correlative conjunctions, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, underlining and italics, and many additional conventions of the language, compare kinds of English like dialects and registers, be able to consult reference materials to check correct spellings, determine unknown words within the grade level, use context clues and Latin affixes and root words with unknown words to determine meanings, interpret figurative language like metaphors, similes, idioms, adages and proverbs.