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Fifth graders are asked to do research from multiple sources, analyze themes, and read complex fiction and nonfiction works. It may be a wild ride — and your child’s abilities may amaze you.

Decoding and fluency

Now in fifth grade, your child’s decoding and fluency skills are growing dramatically. Decoding is the ability to use patterns to figure out words and decipher their separate sounds. Fluency is reading quickly and accurately. This year, your fifth grader will be relying on advanced decoding and fluency skills to tackle more challenging texts, from grade-level novels and nonfiction books to magazine articles and online research.

Your child will regularly draw on their ability to figure out new words to read accurately. A good way to think of phonics is being able to easily see “chunks” in words to figure out a word’s meaning. For example, your child will use root words to decipher a longer word (e.g. struct is the root word in construct, destruction, structure). Your fifth grader will also learn more advanced prefixes (e.g. ex- in excavate, extract, exhale) and suffixes (e.g. -ible in audible, plausible, legible) and use them to decode dozens of multisyllabic words, such as pedestrian and exasperate.

Your child should understand what they read and be able to read it aloud accurately, smoothly, and with plenty of expression. Tip: Be a ham and improve fluency by trading off reading lines from a book’s characters… your child can be the heroic Harry Potter and you the vile Snape.

Related: Watch our Milestone video Is your 5th grader building vocabulary from reading?

Exploring fiction and nonfiction

After struggling with tougher books last year, many fifth graders sail through reading this year. Kids continue to split reading time between literature (including novels, dramas, and poetry) and nonfiction works (including history, social studies, and science).

Fifth graders continue to learn about structure and pay attention to the organization of what they’re reading. This year, for example, it’s not just that books have chapters and plays have scenes, it’s about your child understanding how each chapter fits together into a novel’s overall structure to help the story develop and flow.

Is your child “banking” knowledge?

This is about your child earning and saving knowledge. For every poem, passage, or book read, fifth graders are expected to glean a main point, a message, and a few key facts, relate it to what they already know, and “bank” the knowledge for future use.

So what does filling a knowledge bank look like? It’s your fifth grader imagining how Mary Lennox, protagonist of The Secret Garden, would describe herself versus how the narrator describes her — and how the entire story might change if only Mary told it. When tackling a graphic novel such as Super Amoeba: Squish #1, your fifth grader should be able to talk about how the visuals and words each contribute to the story’s tone and meaning. And, after reading both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Tuck Everlasting, your child should be able to compare and contrast the elements of these two fantasies.

A big new skill for fifth graders is learning to analyze multiple points of view. This may mean reading a book, a historical passage, an individual’s account, watching a movie, studying an interactive timeline, and doing Internet research about the American Civil War. The point is for your child to be able to take in the information and digest it accurately. Your child’s ability to learn a topic from different sources — and understand how the information varies based on the source — are key to your child skillfully and knowledgably “banking” facts.

Related: Watch our Milestone video Is your 5th grader building knowledge from reading?

Show me the evidence!

Hunting for evidence means your child finding — and explicitly referring to — answers to questions in text and pictures. Fifth graders use evidence to compare and contrast characters, to summarize what they read, and to determine a story’s theme.

This year, kids use evidence to quote accurately. This could mean your child finding the first thing Mary says when she learns her Ayah has died.

Your child’s teacher will emphasize evidence in different ways this year, but the main fifth grade reading skills your child should have include:

• Summarizing a text’s main points and explaining how those points are supported by specific details.
• Pointing out how an author is using evidence to explain or support their topic overall and the points within the topic.
• Giving in-depth descriptions of characters, setting, and events in a story.
• Explaining the relationship or interaction between two or more individuals, events, or ideas based on specific information in one or more texts.

In fifth grade, hunting for evidence gets trickier because your child is expected to look at multiple sources — and not all answers are spelled out. Just like a detective trying to piece together a case, your fifth grader will need to pay close attention and really dig to find evidence.

Related: Watch our Milestone video Does your 5th grader show understanding like this?

The wide, wide world of words

Your child’s vocabulary plays an important role in helping your student become college-ready. The surest way to expand your fifth grader’s vocabulary is simple: read more. Have your child read on their own from a range of fiction and nonfiction books. (Check out this list of books to challenge fifth grade readers.) Believe it or not, even at 10 years old, kids benefit from (and enjoy) being read to.

Your fifth grader should be acquiring a firm grasp of language and its basic conventions. They should regularly use skills like using a text’s context for clues and recognizing common affixes and root words to decipher a word’s meaning (e.g. photograph, photosynthesis). And kids should regularly use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries to look up words and phrases.

Finally, fifth graders learn to use figurative language, such as similes (e.g. busy as a bee), metaphors (e.g. you are what you eat), alliteration (e.g. she sells seashells by the seashore), and a fifth grader’s favorite, hyperbole (a.k.a. wild exaggeration). Kids should be able to recognize common idioms (e.g. jump on the bandwagon) and proverbs (e.g. two wrongs do not make a right). They can also rely on the relationship between words — using synonyms, antonyms, and homographs — to better understand new words.

Related: Watch our Milestone video Is your 5th grader building vocabulary from reading?

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55 Challenging Word Problems for 5th Graders

Why not add some colorful manipulatives to make 5th grade learning more concrete, review the core numeracy skills with worksheets, or incorporate them into a daily math lesson to build problem-solving fluency?

These multi-step word problems incorporate addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as well as time, money, place value, and fractions. Since they involve more than one step, students should be encouraged to express their thinking with pictures and words to help plan, solve and check each problem.

1. Jamie traveled 4325 km in 640 days. How many kilometers did he travel on average each day?

2. Miss Jones gave her students the number 30,808 and asked them to write the number in expanded form. Tammy wrote (3 x 10,000) + (8 x 10) + (8 x 1). Jack wrote (3 x 10,000) + (8 x 100) + (8 x 1). Who is correct? Explain your reasoning.

3. James bought crayons for $2.50 and erasers for $4.50. How much change did he get back if he paid with a $20 bill?

4. There are 89 puppies for sale at the pet store. 16 are black and 34 are brown. The rest have spots. How many puppies have spots?

5. Terrance and his three friends earned $359 in August, $522 in July, and $420 in September selling lemonade. How much would they each earn if they divided their earnings equally?

6. Steve and Paul were playing football. Steve gained 82 yards and Paul gained 35 yards. What was the total number of yards gained by both boys during the game?

7. Patrick bought lunch at the school fair. He bought 3 hotdogs for $4.50 each and 2 hamburgers for $5.60 each. He also used a coupon for $2 off the price of lunch. How much money did he spend on lunch altogether?

8. The school bus seats 85 students. At the first stop, 16 students got off the bus. At the second stop, another 18 students got off the bus. How many students were left on the bus?

9. Sandra spent $135 on new clothes. She bought a blouse for $48 and two t-shirts for $23 each. How much money does she have leftover?

10. Four teachers handed out pencils to their students. Two classes had 24 students each, the third class had 29 students and the fourth one had 27 students. How many pencils were handed out in all?

11. Andrew was watching the chimpanzees at the zoo. 45 of them were eating bugs, 36 were playing with sticks and the rest were napping. If there were 122 chimpanzees in all, how many were napping?

12. William feeds his fish 8 containers of fish food each day. Each container costs $3.25. How much money does William spend on fish food in one week?

13. Elizabeth is making shell necklaces for her 7 friends. She needs 23 seashells to make each necklace. She has 89 seashells collected so far. How many more seashells does she need to make all 7 necklaces? 

14. Edward and Carl were playing a video game. Edward scored 835 points and Carl scored 345 points. How many more points did Edward score than Carl?

15. Ava bought 8 cookies for $2.25 each, 5 chocolate bars for $1.50 each, and 6 cupcakes for $1.25 each. How much change should she get back if she paid with a $50 bill?

16. 320 people visited the amusement park on Saturday. Four times as many visited on Sunday. How many people visited the amusement park on the weekend? 

17. Stephanie bought 45 plain cookies for $2.20 each. She decorated them with icing and sold them for $3.75 each. How much profit did she make selling her decorated cookies? 

18. Miles made 45 t-shirts to sell online. He sold each one for $30 but she had to pay $8.50 tax for each shirt. How much money did he make in all?

19. Amy went to the gym for 15 years. She trained three times a week every year. How many times did she go to the gym in 15 years?

20. Lisa sold sweaters. She sold 899 sweaters in her first year in business, 1450 in her second year, and 2450 in her third year. How much did she make in total if each sweater cost $29?   

21. Tyler was catching butterflies. In the first hour, he caught 7 butterflies. In the second hour, he caught 9. In the third hour, he caught 11. If this pattern continued, how many hours would it take him to catch more than 60 butterflies?

22. Peter sees 144 cars drive by his house per week. How many cars does he see over 3 years? 

23. Shannon has to reserve buses for a field trip. She has 271 children, 12 teachers, and 9 parents. Each bus can seat 22 passengers. How many buses would she need and how many spare seats would be left?

24. John wants to bake 1400 cupcakes for the school bake sale. He can bake 36 cupcakes per day. He has already baked 396. How many days will it take him to bake 1400 cupcakes?

25. Ben and his 4 friends read 60 books in one year. Each book has an average of 235 pages. How many pages did they read in total in one year?

26. Mandy is having a birthday party. She invited 25 friends and baked 432 cookies. She wants to share the cookies at her party but also wants to save 35 for her siblings. How many cookies will each person get at the party?

27. Edward wanted to give away his stamps to 12 friends. He has 624 stamps. How many stamps will each friend get and how many will be left over?

28. Movie tickets cost $24 per adult and 1/4 of that price per child. How much will a family with 2 adults and 5 children pay in total? 

29. Melissa earned $560 in September and only 2/5 of that in October. How much money did she earn in October?

30. Paul ate 1¼ pizzas and Sam ate 3 ¾ pizzas. How many pizzas did they eat in all?

31. Jamie earned $800 in his first year in business. If he shares 3/4 of his earnings with his family, how much money will he have left?

32. Sarah had to cut a 230 m piece of wood into 5 pieces. How long would each piece be after cutting?

33. A school of 385 students and 12 teachers was going camping and needed to reserve some buses. If one bus can carry 70 people, how many buses would they need?

34. James is selling his house. He will keep 70% of the profit and give 30% to his mother. If the house sells for $300,000, how much money will they each receive?

35. Steven earned $200 during 1 week of work. The following week, he earned 30% more. How much money did he earn over 2 weeks?

36. Alex made $540 selling buttons at a garage sale and Andy made 2/5 of Alex’s amount. How much money did Andy make? 

37. Jennifer has a backyard that is 13m by 9m. She wants to add a garden that will measure 7m by 4m. How many meters of space will she have leftover in her backyard? 

38. Sandra bought $250 worth of school supplies. The store was having a sale so she got a 30% discount. How much did she have to pay?

39. Danny was building a large playhouse for his daughter. The perimeter of the dollhouse was a square. If one side was 21m long, how long would the entire perimeter be? 

40. Kimberly painted a new painting. She spent $530 on paint, $223 on the easel, $55 on the frame, and $421 on the canvas. She sold her painting for $3264. How much profit did she make?

41. Kyle, Jack, and Jamie went to a pizza party where they each ate 3¼ slices of pizza. How many pizza slices did they eat in all?

42. Sam made $500 selling baseball cards in February. He made 40% more than that in March. How much did he earn over the months?

43. Mary wants to add a carpet to her living room. The area of her living room is 123m2 and the carpet costs $8 per square meter. How much would the carpet cost in total?

44. Amy was buying snacks for a party. She bought 35 bags of chips that cost $2.50 each, 6 bottles of soda at $4.50 each, and a large cake that cost $77. How much did she spend in total on the party?

45. Samantha wanted to add some new wallpaper to her walls. Each wall was 8m by 13m and she had 7 walls to cover. How much area did she have to cover in all?

46. Pam bought a new laundry machine for $1500 and a dryer for $850. She got a 20% on the total. How much did she have to pay?

47. Tammy bought a packet of stickers with 78 stickers inside. She decided to keep 2/3 of them and give 1/3 to her sister. How many stickers did her sister get?

48. James earned $900 in October moving lawns. Sam earned 8/9 of that amount. How much money did Sam earn?

49. Patricia cut a chocolate bar into equal pieces to share with 3 friends. If the chocolate bar was 42.6 cm long, how long were each of the three pieces?

50. James ate 4/5 of a cake and Amy ate 2/3. How much did they eat altogether? 

51. Stanley’s parents agreed to let him buy a new video game console if he paid for half of it. They gave him the $180 for their portion. If Stanley has saved $108.70 so far, how much more money does he need to buy the console? 

52. Stephanie made brownies for the class bake sale. The box says that the pan will make 12 servings. If each serving is 250 calories, how many calories would the entire pan have? 

53. Every month the Smith family pays $45 for their basic cell phone plan plus $6.95 for each of their 4 phones. They also pay $29.99 for a data and texting plan and an additional $7.45 in taxes. How much is their monthly bill? 

54. A beetle is about 3/4 of an inch long. A rattlesnake is about 30 times longer. How long is a rattlesnake?

55. Yasmine needed 45 facts about giraffes for her science project. She recorded 2/5 of the facts she needed from her first book, 12 facts from the second book, and 1/9 of the facts she needed from the third book. How many more facts does she need to complete her project?

Summary of the Russian language lesson in the 3rd grade “Complex words and their spelling”

Summary of the open lesson

In the 3rd grade of MBOU “School No. 53”

Kirovsky district of Kazan 9000

on the topic

“Complicated words

and their spelling”

(Lesson – consolidation)

prepared: Teacher

Golikova Regina

Kazan 2012

Lesson topic: Compound words and their spelling.

Lesson objectives:

1. Systematize students’ knowledge on the topic.

2. Develop the ability to select words with the same root, having worked out the skill of competent writing with an unstressed vowel at the root of a word.

3. To cultivate industriousness, independence.

Tasks:

1) Develop the ability to form compound words with roots: -sam-, -voz-. nine0006

2) Formation of new words according to the type of known ones (word creation).

3) Consolidation of the skill of finding, writing and explaining spelling.

4) Analysis of words by composition (morphemic analysis).

5) Stimulate the creative approach of students in achieving the goals and objectives;

6) To consolidate the skill of identifying compound words and their spelling.

Methodical base:

• Textbook “Russian language grade 3” R.N. Buneev; nine0006

• “Didactic material for the textbook of the Russian language grade 3” L. Yu. Komisarova;

• Guidelines for teachers E.V. Buneeva, M.A. Yakovleva.

Equipment:

• R.N. Buneev;

• Lesson presentation;

• Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language;

• Illustrations;

• Cards (morphemic analysis, vocabulary work). nine0006

Lesson progress:

1. Org. Moment.

– Hello guys. Please turn around and give smiles to our guests.

– We are very glad to see you today at our Russian language lesson.

2. A minute of calligraphy.

– As usual, we start the lesson with a minute of calligraphy. Lesson number 51.

– Which letter elements will we write today?

– Remember the correct posture when writing. nine0006

3. Update of previous knowledge.

– Let’s write down today’s date, class work.

– What topic did we work on in the previous Russian lessons? (Presentation. Slide 1)

– What can you say about compound words?

– Which connecting letters are most often found in compound words?

– How should one proceed in order to correctly write a connecting vowel?

(Slide 2) Samodelkin, couch potato, white hand, idler, lazybones.

– Look at the interactive whiteboard. Read the words. Find the excess.

( Children’s answers: Lazy – not difficult)

– Write down only difficult words. Prove that these are complex words. (Highlight the roots and underline the connecting vowels).

– Let’s check (Slide 2/1)

– What other word can be superfluous? Observe the lexical meaning of the words. (Samodelkin – name, antonym). nine0006

– What is ANTONYM? ( Slide 3. Reference from the explanatory dictionary)

– Who and why could they give such a name? What qualities should he have? (Independence, diligence, craftsmanship, perseverance)

– Can we need such qualities in the lesson?

– Now let’s check. (Exercise 131 p. 92)

– What needs to be done?

Parallel work on the board in a chain and in notebooks. nine0125

4. Independent work.

132 p.92 oral analysis of the task.

To complete the tasks,

You need to rest a little.

Well, guys, let’s get up together,

Shake the bones.

Hands to the sides, forward,

Up, bent back,

Stretched towards the sun.

On tiptoes,

We got the rays.

Squatted down,

Looked around.

And now at the desks

Quietly sat down.

Independent work in notebooks.

(Steam locomotive, diesel locomotive, water carrier, electric locomotive, fuel carrier, milk carrier, cement carrier.)

Verbal check.

5. Fixing.

133 p.92. (Slide 3,4,5,6)

runners – a compound word consisting of two roots – speed- and -walk-, a connecting vowel about .

Slide 4. Carpet – stress falls on 2 syllables, unstressed vowel at the root about , test word “carpet”; airplane – compound word consisting of two roots – sam- and –fly-, connecting vowel o .

Slide 5. Tablecloth – the stress falls on the first syllable, at the root of the word there is an unstressed vowel e , the test word “tablecloth”; self-assembled – a compound word consisting of 2 roots -sam- and -br-, a connecting vowel about .

Slide 6. Gusli – everything is clear. Samogudy – compound word consisting of two horses –sam- and –gud-, connecting vowel to .

Conclusion: All words have one common root – sam-. All these items are self-made.

– In what fairy tales are these objects found? ( Little Muk, Old Man – Hotabych, Aladdin, Sadko, etc. )

Ex. 134 p. 93. Collective work on the questions in the assignment.

– What does the boy do? What profession did he invent for himself? (Luzelas Slide 7 ) .

– Write down this word and sort it out by composition. nine0006

– What word does it look like? (Diver).

– Read this poem again and find difficult words in it. (There are no more complex words in the poem, but children may mistakenly call “submariner”. Analysis of the composition on the board.)

– I propose the word creation game that we came up with after reading this poem.

(Slide 8) roots -sam-, -var-, -hod-, -steam-, -air-, -sam-, -fly-, -vert-, -sam-, -par-. nine0154

Composition of words.

– A word from me “airplane-steam-samovar-steam-helicopter”

– How might it look like? (Slide 8)

6. Lesson summary.

– What did we do today? What they were doing?

– What did you like?

– How do you rate yourself?

(Slide 9)

– Can we now say to ourselves that we are “homemade”? nine0153 ( Slide 10. Oh, yes we are, well done!)

7. Homework.

-What would you like to do at home? (Verbalism).

Creative D / z come up with your own complex words, draw. In the notebook, ex. 5 page 98.

Task * – Listen to the poem by N. Konchalovskaya (Slide 11)

The gardener showed us

We have such a garden,

Where in the thickly sown beds,

OGURBUZES grew,

TOMATOES grew,

REDISBEET, GARS and REPUST.

CELERY is ripe,

AND CARROTOPLE is ripe.

The PARACOOL has already begun to crumble,

And such BLACHKOV

Yes, hairy pods

Every gardener would be frightened.

– Pay attention to the highlighted words. Can we call them complex? Why?

– Can we call them “hybrids”? how do you understand this word? nine0523

1. Self-tapping screw (Self-tapping screw).

2. Steam powered vessel (Steamboat).

3. Large kettle (Samovar).

4. Russian folk game – dance. (Round dance)

5. Forest felled by a storm. (Wirebreak).

6. The spontaneous course of business, work without a plan, without guidance. (Samotek).

7. Firearms. (Machine gun). nine0006

Lesson on the topic “Compound words”

Replace phrases with one word, which would be a definition for a noun.

1) A person who loves life, joy.

2) A person who loves work.

3) Plantations protecting fields.

4) Snow clearing machine.

5) The river on which ships go.

6) Paper sensitive to light.