Grade 5 Reading Curriculum

Students will be able to: 

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas.
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction, and poetry:
  • Identify genres. 
  • Draw conclusions and make inferences with support from the text. 
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Skim material to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information. 
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension. 

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas and in seminars. 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker.
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars.
  • Pose and respond to open ended questions, clarifying and challenging ideas.
  • Understand and encapsulate the speaker’s main points.
  • Use specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
  • Use specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
  • Use word origins and stems to expand vocabulary.
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner. 
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language. 
  • Develop linguistic competency.

• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction, and poetry:
  • Make new connections considering the evidence and reasoning presented. 
  • Compare and contrast internal and external influences on settings, characters, and events over time. 
  • Develop analytical and interpretative skills in fiction, poetry, and/or non-fiction text. 
  • Respond to and question the answers of peers. 
  • Develop analytical and interpretative skills in fiction, poetry, and/or non-fiction texts. 
  • Employ a variety of strategies, to include determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Develop reasoning skills in language arts. 
  • Understand the concept of change to analyze literature. 
  • Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems. 
  • Consider long and short-term consequences of solutions.
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story. 
  • Monitor understanding and know what to do when it is not occurring. 
  • Use expression, rhythm, and phrasing.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Use reading strategies such as predicting, questioning, and connecting to own
  • Monitor understanding and know what to do when it is not occurring experiences 
  • Summarize and encapsulate important ideas.

Students will be able to:

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas.
  • Summarize information gathered in group activities.
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings.
  • Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions. 
  • Summarize the main points a speaker makes, and connect comments to the remarks of others. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions. 
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction texts, and poetry:
  • Summarize plot events using details from text. 
  • Discuss the impact of setting on plot development. 
  • Describe character development. 
  • Identify theme(s). 
  • Explain the resolution of conflict(s). 
  • Identify genres. 
  • Differentiate between first and third person point-of-view. 
  • Explain how an author’s choice of vocabulary contributes to the author’s style. 
  • Draw conclusions and make inferences with support from the text.
  • Identify cause and effect relationships. 
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner.
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story.
  • Engage in a dialogue about the meaning of a selection.
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Make informative and persuasive oral presentations using purposeful structure and visuals. 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker. 
  • Develop skills of argument formulation in persuasive communication. 
  • Support opinions with examples and details.
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and speaker in seminars. 
  • Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas and in seminars.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language. 
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction texts, and poetry:
  • Evaluate the choices the author makes to construct power, position, and perspective.
  • Use a variety of strategies including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/text based on categories.
  • Monitor reading and know what to do when understanding is not occurring. 
  • Use a variety of word recognition skills. 
  • Increase number of known words. 

Students will be able to:

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues. 
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas.
  • Summarize information gathered in group activities. 
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings.
  • Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions. 
  • Summarize the main points a speaker makes, and connect comments to the remarks of others. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions. 
• Learn how media messages are constructed and for what purposes:
  • Identify the purpose and audience of auditory, visual, and written media messages.
  • Identify the characteristics and effectiveness of a variety of media messages. 
  • Compare and contrast techniques used in a variety of media messages. 
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts: 
  • Use text features such as type, headings, and graphics to predict and categorize information.
  • Skim materials to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information. 
  • Identify the main idea. 
  • Summarize supporting details.
  • Identify organizational pattern(s). 
  • Identify transitional words and phrases that signal an author’s organizational pattern. 
  • Locate information from the text to support opinions, inferences, and conclusions. 
  • Identify cause and effect relationships. 
  • Differentiate between fact and opinion.
  • Compare and contrast details and ideas within and between texts.

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Determine the main points of a media message by identifying the strengths and limitations of the message.
• Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas. 
• Develop analytical and interpretive skills in media and nonfiction texts.
• Analyze literature through the lens of a concept.
• Use a variety of strategies including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives.
• Evaluate the influence of author and audience bias in each document.
• Validate a source as to its authenticity, authority, and representativeness. 

Students will be able to: 

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas.
  • Summarize information gathered in group activities. 
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings. 
  • Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions.
  • Summarize the main points a speaker makes and connect comments to the remarks of others. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions. 
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Use text features such as type, headings, and graphics, to predict and categorize information. 
  • Skim materials to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information. 
  • Identify the main idea. 
  • Summarize supporting details. 
  • Identify organizational pattern(s). 
  • Identify transitional words and phrases that signal an author’s organizational pattern. 
  • Locate information from the text to support opinions, inferences, and conclusions. 
  • Identify cause and effect relationships.
  • Differentiate between fact and opinion. 
  • Compare and contrast details and ideas within and between texts. 
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner.
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story.
  • Engage in a dialogue about the meaning of a selection.
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Make informative and persuasive oral presentations using purposeful structure and visuals. 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker. 
  • Develop skills of argument formulation in persuasive communication. 
  • Support opinions with examples and details.
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and speaker in seminars.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Use reference books to determine meaning, pronunciation and origin of words.
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language.
  • Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas and in seminars.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Identify and use text features such as headings, formats, charts, and diagrams.
  • Use a variety of strategies, including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Provide a sequence of events, procedures, and/or activities that occur in the text. 
  • Understand classification of details to make generalizations within text. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/‌text based on categories and concepts.
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature.
  • Develop reasoning skills in the language arts.
  • Understand the concept of change in the language arts.
  • Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems.
  • Understand cause and effect and its relationship to consequences and implications within a text. 
  • Create and answer questions about a topic. 
  • Monitor reading and know what to do when understanding is not occurring.  
  • Use a variety of word recognition skills.

Students will be able to: 

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues. 
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas. 
  • Summarize information gathered in group activities. 
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings. 
  • Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions.
  • Summarize the main points a speaker makes, and connect comments to the remarks of others. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction texts, and poetry:
  • Summarize plot events using details from text. 
  • Discuss the impact of setting on plot development. 
  • Describe character development. 
  • Identify theme(s).
  • Explain the resolution of conflict(s). 
  • Identify genres. 
  • Differentiate between first and third person point-of-view. 
  • Explain how an author’s choice of vocabulary contributes to the author’s style. 
  • Draw conclusions and make inferences with support from the text. 
  • Identify cause and effect relationships. 
  • Compare/contrast details in literary and informational nonfiction texts.
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Skim materials to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information. 
  • Identify the main idea. 
  • Summarize supporting details. 
  • Locate information from the text to support opinions, inferences, and conclusions. 
  • Differentiate between fact and opinion. 
  • Compare and contrast details and ideas within and between texts. 
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension. 

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner.
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story.
  • Engage in a dialogue about the meaning of a selection.
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Make informative and persuasive oral presentations using purposeful structure and visuals. 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker. 
  • Develop skills of argument formulation in persuasive communication. 
  • Support opinions with examples and details.
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and speaker in seminars. 
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language. 
  • Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction texts, and poetry.
  • Evaluate the choices the author makes to construct power, position, and perspective.
  • Use a variety of strategies including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/text based on categories.
  • Understand cause and effect and its relationship to consequences and implications within a text.
  • Monitor reading and know what to do when understanding is not occurring. 
  • Use a variety of word recognition skills. 
  • Increase number of known words. 
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Identify and use text features such as headings, formats, charts, and diagrams.
  • Use a variety of strategies, including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Provide a sequence of events, procedures, and/or activities that occur in the text. 
  • Understand classification of details to make generalizations within text. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/‌text based on categories and concepts.
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature.
  • Develop reasoning skills in the language arts.
  • Understand the concept of change in the language arts.
  • Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems.
  • Understand cause and effect and its relationship to consequences and implications within a text. 
  • Create and answer questions about a topic. 
  • Monitor reading and know what to do when understanding is not occurring.  
  • Use a variety of word recognition skills. 
  • Increase number of known words.

Students will be able to: 

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues. 
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas. 
  • Summarize information gathered in group activities. 
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings.
  • Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions. 
  • Summarize the main points a speaker makes, and connect comments to the remarks of others. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions. 
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use context to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases. 
  • Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings and differentiate among multiple meanings of words. 
  • Identify an author’s use of figurative language. 
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction, and poetry:
  • Summarize plot events using details from text. 
  • Discuss the impact of setting on plot development. 
  • Describe character development. 
  • Identify theme(s). 
  • Explain the resolution of conflict(s). 
  • Identify genres.
  • Differentiate between first and third person point-of-view.
  • Explain how an author’s choice of vocabulary contributes to the author’s style. 
  • Draw conclusions and make inferences with support from the text. 
  • Identify cause and effect relationships.
  • Compare/contrast details in literary and informational nonfiction texts. 
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas and in seminars 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars
  • Pose and respond to open ended questions, clarifying and challenging ideas 
  • Understand and encapsulate the speaker’s main points 
  • Use specific vocabulary communicate ideas
  • Use specific vocabulary communicate ideas
  • Use word origins and stems to expand vocabulary
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner 
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others
• Give oral presentations:
  • Speak clearly using appropriate volume.
  • Speak at an understandable rate.
  • Make eye contact with the audience.
  • Organize ideas sequentially or around major points of information using appropriate facts and relevant details.
  • Use contextually appropriate language and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
  • Use multimodal tools to create presentations and enhance communication.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language 
  • Develop linguistic competency
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction, and poetry.
  • Make new connections considering the evidence and reasoning presented 
  • Compare and contrast internal and external influences on settings, characters, and events over time 
  • Develop analytical and interpretative skills in fiction, poetry, and/or non-fiction text 
  • Respond to and question the answers of peers 
  • Develop analytical and interpretative skills in fiction, poetry, and/or non-fiction texts 
  • Employ a variety of strategies, to include determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives 
  • Develop reasoning skills in language arts 
  • Understand the concept of change to analyze literature 
    Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems 
  • Consider long and short-term consequences of solutions
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story 
  • Monitor understanding and know what to do when it is not occurring.

Students will be able to: 

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues. 
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas. 
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work.
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use context to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.
  • Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings and differentiate among multiple meanings of words.
  • Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words.
  • Identify an author’s use of figurative language. 
  • Use word-reference materials.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction, and poetry:
  • Summarize plot events using details from text.
  • Discuss the impact of setting on plot development.
  • Describe character development.
  • Identify theme(s). 
  • Explain the resolution of conflict(s).
  • Identify genres. 
  • Differentiate between first- and third-person point-of-view. 
  • Differentiate between free verse and rhymed poetry.
  • Explain how an author’s choice of vocabulary contributes to the author’s style.
  • Draw conclusions and make inferences with support from the text.
  • Compare/contrast details in literary and informational nonfiction texts.
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner.
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story.
  • Engage in a dialogue about the meaning of a selection.
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Make informative and persuasive oral presentations using purposeful structure and visuals. 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker. 
  • Develop skills of argument formulation in persuasive communication. 
  • Support opinions with examples and details.
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and speaker in seminars. 
  • Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas and in seminars.
• Create and deliver multimodal, interactive presentations:
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Use specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction texts, and poetry:
  • Evaluate the choices the author makes to construct power, position, and perspective.
  • Monitor reading and know what to do when understanding is not occurring. 
  • Use a variety of word recognition skills. 
  • Increase number of known words.

Students will be able to: 

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues. 
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas. 
  • Summarize information gathered in group activities.
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings.
  • Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions.
  • Summarize the main points a speaker makes, and connect comments to the remarks of others.
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions.
• Create multimodal presentations that effectively communicate ideas:
  • Effectively use verbal and nonverbal communication skills to plan and deliver collaborative and individual, formal and informal interactive presentations.
  • Maintain eye contact with listeners.
  • Organize content sequentially around major ideas. 
  • Use language and style appropriate to the audience, topic, and purpose. 
  • Ask and answer questions to gather or clarify information presented orally.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use context to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.
  • Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings and differentiate among multiple meanings of words. 
  • Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words. 
  • Identify an author’s use of figurative language.
  • Use word-reference materials.
  • Develop and use general and specialized content area vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts: 
  • Use text features such as type, headings, and graphics, to predict and categorize information.
  • Skim materials to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information. 
  • Identify the main idea. 
  • Summarize supporting details.
  • Identify organizational pattern(s). 
  • Identify transitional words and phrases that signal an author’s organizational pattern. 
  • Locate information from the text to support opinions, inferences, and conclusions.
  • Identify cause and effect relationships.
  • Differentiate between fact and opinion. 
  • Compare and contrast details and ideas within and between texts. 
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.
• Find, evaluate, and select appropriate resources to create a research product:
  • Construct questions about a topic. 
  • Collect and organize information from multiple resources. 
  • Evaluate the relevance, reliability, and credibility of information. 
  • Give credit to sources used in research. 
  • Avoid plagiarism and use own words.
  • Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet.

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner.
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story.
  • Engage in a dialogue about the meaning of a selection.
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Make informative and persuasive oral presentations using purposeful structure and visuals. 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker. 
  • Develop skills of argument formulation in persuasive communication. 
  • Support opinions with examples and details.
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and speaker in seminars.
• Create and deliver multimodal, interactive presentations:
  • Know the type of information found in various reference materials including atlases, dictionaries, and websites.
  • Select appropriate resources to find answers to questions about a topic.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Use specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language.
  • Use reference books to determine meaning, pronunciation, and origin of words.
  • Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas and in seminars.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Identify and use text features such as headings, formats, charts, and diagrams.
  • Use a variety of strategies, including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Provide a sequence of events, procedures, and/or activities that occur in the text. 
  • Understand classification of details to make generalizations within text. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/‌text based on categories and concepts.
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature. 
  • Develop reasoning skills in the language arts.
  • Understand the concept of change in the language arts. 
  • Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems.

Students will be able to:

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas. 
  • Summarize information gathered in group activities. 
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings. 
  • Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions.
  • Summarize the main points a speaker makes and connect comments to the remarks of others.
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions.
• Learn how media messages are constructed and for what purposes:
  • Identify the purpose and audience of auditory, visual, and written media messages. 
  • Identify the characteristics and effectiveness of a variety of media messages. 
  • Compare and contrast techniques used in a variety of media messages.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use context to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases. 
  • Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings and differentiate among multiple meanings of words. 
  • Use word-reference materials. 
  • Develop and use general and specialized content area vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Use text features such as type, headings, and graphics, to predict and categorize information. 
  • Skim materials to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information. 
  • Identify the main idea. 
  • Summarize supporting details. 
  • Identify organizational pattern(s). 
  • Identify transitional words and phrases that signal an author’s organizational pattern.
  • Locate information from the text to support opinions, inferences, and conclusions. 
  • Identify cause and effect relationships. 
  • Differentiate between fact and opinion. 
  • Compare and contrast details and ideas within and between texts.
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner.
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story.
  • Engage in a dialogue about the meaning of a selection.
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Make informative and persuasive oral presentations using purposeful structure and visuals. 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker. 
  • Develop skills of argument formulation in persuasive communication. 
  • Support opinions with examples and details.
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and speaker in seminars.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language.
  • Use reference books to determine meaning, pronunciation, and origin of words.
  • Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas and in seminars.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Identify and use text features such as headings, formats, charts, and diagrams.
  • Use a variety of strategies, including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Provide a sequence of events, procedures, and/or activities that occur in the text. 
  • Understand classification of details to make generalizations within text. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/‌text based on categories and concepts.
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature. 
  • Develop reasoning skills in the language arts.
  • Understand the concept of change in the language arts. 
  • Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems.

Students will be able to: 

• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use context to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.
  • Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings and differentiate among multiple meanings of words.
  • Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words.
  • Identify an author’s use of figurative language. 
  • Use word-reference materials.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction, and poetry:
  • Summarize plot events using details from the text.
  • Discuss the impact of setting on plot development.
  • Describe character development. 
  • Identify theme(s). 
  • Explain the resolution of conflict(s). 
  • Identify genres. 
  • Differentiate between first- and third-person point of view. 
  • Describe how an author’s choice of vocabulary contributes to the author’s style. 
  • Draw conclusions and make inferences from text.
  • Identify cause-and-effect relationships. 
  • Compare/contrast details in literary and informational nonfiction texts.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Use text features, such as type, headings, and graphics, to predict and categorize information. 
  • Skim materials to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information. 
  • Identify the main idea.
  • Summarize supporting details. 
  • Identify organizational pattern(s). 
  • Identify transitional words and phrases that signal an author’s organizational pattern. 
  • Locate information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions. 
  • Identify cause-and-effect relationships. 
  • Differentiate between fact and opinion. 
  • Compare and contrast details and ideas within and between texts.

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language.
  • Use reference books to determine meaning, pronunciation, and origin of words.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction texts, and poetry:
  • Evaluate the choices the author makes to construct power, position, and perspective.
  • Use a variety of strategies including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/text based on categories.
  • Use a variety of word recognition skills.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language.  
  • Lead and contribute to discussions and viewpoints with others across content areas and in seminars.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts:
  • Identify and use text features such as headings, formats, charts, and diagrams.
  • Use a variety of strategies, including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Provide a sequence of events, procedures, and/or activities that occur in the text. 
  • Understand classification of details to make generalizations within text. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/‌text based on categories and concepts.
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature. 
  • Develop reasoning skills in the language arts.
  • Understand the concept of change in the language arts. 
  • Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems.

Students will be able to: 

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues. 
  • Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas. 
  • Summarize information gathered in group activities. 
  • Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings. 
  • Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions. 
  • Summarize the main points a speaker makes and connect comments to the remarks of others. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work. 
  • Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use context to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.
  • Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings and differentiate among multiple meanings of words.
  • Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones to determine the meaning of new words.
  • Identify an author’s use of figurative language.
  • Develop and use general and specialized content area vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction, and poetry:
  • Summarize plot events using details from text.
  • Discuss the impact of setting on plot development.
  • Describe character development. 
  • Identify theme(s). 
  • Explain the resolution of conflict(s).
  • Identify genres. 
  • Differentiate between first- and third-person point-of-view. 
  • Differentiate between free verse and rhymed poetry.
  • Explain how an author’s choice of vocabulary contributes to the author’s style. 
  • Draw conclusions and make inferences with support from the text. 
  • Identify cause and effect relationships. 
  • Compare/contrast details in literary and informational nonfiction texts. 
  • Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.

Extended Standards

In addition to the Virginia Standards of Learning above, students who receive full-time Advanced Academic (AAP Level IV) Services engage with these extensions.

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings:
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars. 
  • Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner.
  • State the main ideas or themes of the story.
  • Engage in a dialogue about the meaning of a selection.
  • Develop listening/oral communication skills.
  • Make informative and persuasive oral presentations using purposeful structure and visuals. 
  • Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker. 
  • Develop skills of argument formulation in persuasive communication. 
  • Support opinions with examples and details.
  • Engage in discussions with others by exchanging ideas, asking questions, actively listening, and responding thoughtfully to the comments of others.
  • Participate in group discussions as a listener and speaker in seminars.
• Expand vocabulary when reading:
  • Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning. 
  • Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words. 
  • Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language.
• Read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, literary nonfiction texts, and poetry:
  • Evaluate the choices the author makes to construct power, position, and perspective.
  • Use a variety of strategies including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives. 
  • Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature. 
  • Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
  • Create generalizations about the story/text based on categories.
  • Use a variety of word recognition skills.
  • Monitor reading and know what to do when understanding is not occurring.
  • Use a variety of word recognition skills.   
  • Increase the number of known words.