5th Grade CCSS: Reading: Informational Text

For fifth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a non-fiction text. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, fifth graders will be asked to: explain a text explicitly and accurately, using quotes, understand the theme of a piece of informational text and be able to summarize it, describe the overall structure of events or information in a text including elements like chronology, comparison and cause and effect, analyze multiple accounts of the same events or topics in a text, get information from a number of different print or digital sources, explain the author’s evidence within a text, read informational texts at grade band level, increasing in complexity throughout the year.