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Colorado Standards

Colorado 5th Grade ELA Standards

All 10 Colorado English language arts standards for 5th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Colorado Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

10 standards

Oral Expression and Listening

2 standards
RW.5.1.1
Listen and form your own opinions in prepared discussions, add useful comments and draw conclusions, summarize what was read aloud, and explain how a speaker backs each claim.
RW.5.1.2
Give talks that explain, persuade or share an opinion with logically ordered ideas, eye contact and a clear pace, adding graphics or sound and fitting language to the purpose.

Reading for All Purposes

3 standards
RW.5.2.1
Read stories, dramas and poems, quoting to back inferences, finding the theme, comparing characters' viewpoints, explaining a narrator's influence, and spotting devices like foreshadowing.
RW.5.2.2
Read nonfiction, quoting to back inferences, find two or more main ideas, tell fact from opinion, compare text structures and accounts, and combine facts from several sources.
RW.5.2.3
Work out unknown words with Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, suffixes and context, read fluently, interpret similes, metaphors and idioms, and compare dialects in stories.

Writing and Composition

4 standards
RW.5.3.1
Write an opinion piece with a clear structure, logically ordered reasons backed by facts, linking phrases like for instance, and a conclusion that ties back to the view.
RW.5.3.2
Write to inform with a clear focus, headings and visuals that group facts, quotations and examples, precise subject words, linking clauses, and a related conclusion.
RW.5.3.3
Write a real or imagined story with developed characters, dialogue, pacing and sensory details, transitions that keep events clear, and an ending that follows from them.
RW.5.3.4
Revise and edit for clarity and style using perfect verb tenses, steady tense, either/or pairs, commas after opening words, and italics or quotation marks for titles.

Research Inquiry and Design

1 standard
RW.5.4.1
Research a topic in several sources, summarize and infer from what you find, add charts or maps, cite the sources, and share a short report with a clear focus.

The official Colorado documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Colorado's standards, not the official wording, which Colorado Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.