Skip to main content
Indiana Standards

Indiana 5th Grade ELA Standards

All 30 Indiana English language arts standards for 5th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Indiana Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

30 standards

Reading Foundations

2 standards
5.RF.1
Combine letter sounds, syllable division and word parts like roots and affixes to read long, unfamiliar words in a text correctly, like transportation.
5.RF.2
Read fifth-grade or harder texts aloud fluently and accurately, with a voice that shows understanding, like changing tone for a character’s lines.

Reading Comprehension

14 standards
5.RC.1
Quote a text accurately when explaining what it states outright and when drawing conclusions from clues in it.
5.RC.2
Use details in a story, play or poem to find its theme, like how characters face hard times or how a poem’s speaker reflects on a subject, then summarize it.
5.RC.3
Draw on specific details to describe two or more characters, places or moments in a story or play, and how each one affects the plot.
5.RC.4
Describe how the narrator’s or speaker’s point of view shapes the way events are told, like a story told by the villain.
5.RC.5
Compare and contrast how stories in the same genre handle similar themes and topics, like two mysteries about friendship.
5.RC.6
Find two or more main ideas in an informational text, show which details support each one, and summarize the text.
Common Core RI.5.2
5.RC.7
Use text features across several print and digital sources to find information, understand a text, or solve a problem, like using a website menu and a map.
5.RC.8
Compare and contrast how two or more texts organize their events, ideas or information, like one article in time order and another as problem and solution.
5.RC.9
Explain how an author backs claims with reasons and evidence, matching each reason or piece of evidence to the claim it supports.
5.RC.10
Bring together facts from several books, articles or websites on one topic to show what they have learned, like sources on the moon landing.
5.RC.11
Choose and use clues from nearby words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs, along with text features, to figure out unknown words.
5.RC.12
Identify how words relate, including multiple meanings, synonyms, antonyms, homographs, metaphors, similes and analogies, like hand is to glove as foot is to sock.
5.RC.13
Use word parts, known words and patterns, like Greek and Latin roots, word origins and parts of speech, to work out what words mean, like biography.
5.RC.14
Work out how words and phrases build meaning in literature, including imagery, symbols, similes, metaphors, exaggeration and allusions.

Writing

7 standards
5.W.1
Write to persuade a named audience in fitting words, stating a position, backing it with facts and figures from sources, grouping ideas, linking reasons, and concluding.
5.W.2
Write informative pieces that introduce and logically organize a topic, support it with facts and quotations from sources, use transitions and visuals, and conclude.
5.W.3
Write stories that set up the setting and characters, build through a conflict and climax to a resolution, use dialogue, pacing and vivid language, and end naturally.
5.W.4
Draft by developing and organizing ideas for the topic, purpose and genre, revise with references, edit for standard English, and team up online to publish.
5.W.5
Form a research question with help, gather facts from reliable primary and secondary sources, paraphrase and quote with citations, avoid plagiarism, and share findings.
5.W.6
Write with perfect tenses like had walked and will have walked, tricky verbs like lie and lay, prepositional phrases, and varied sentences with either/or and neither/nor.
5.W.7
Capitalize and spell correctly, use apostrophes and quotation marks, and add commas for appositives, yes and no, tag questions and direct address, like Yes, Sam, I can.

Communication and Collaboration

7 standards
5.CC.1
Contribute to fifth-grade discussions one-on-one, in groups or teacher-led, extending others’ points and stating their own ideas clearly, like a talk on a novel’s ending.
5.CC.2
Ask and answer specific questions with comments that move the discussion forward and expand on what others have said.
5.CC.3
Sum up or respond out loud to a text read aloud or to information shown in visuals, numbers or speech, like a video about volcanoes.
5.CC.4
Give a talk on a topic, text, story or opinion that opens and closes well, is clearly organized, and backs main ideas with facts and details, at a clear, steady pace.
5.CC.5
Create engaging presentations with multimedia and visual displays, when they help, to develop main ideas or themes, like a slideshow with a chart and a short clip.
5.CC.6
Review claims made in different kinds of media and judge how well the evidence supports them, like a commercial claiming a snack is healthy.
5.CC.7
Identify how the media steer people’s attention toward certain events and shape their opinions on issues, like how heavy coverage makes a story seem important.

The official Indiana documents

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