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Skills available for British Columbia grade 5 English language arts curriculum
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- British Columbia Learning Standards British Columbia Learning Standards
- British Columbia Achievement Indicators (2006): Reading and Viewing British Columbia Achievement Indicators (2006): Reading and Viewing
- British Columbia Achievement Indicators (2006): Writing and Representing British Columbia Achievement Indicators (2006): Writing and Representing
- WNCP Common Curriculum Frameworks WNCP Common Curriculum Frameworks
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5.CC Curricular Competencies
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5.CC.1 Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
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5.CC.1.1 Access information and ideas from a variety of sources and from prior knowledge to build understanding
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5.CC.1.2 Use a variety of comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading, listening, or viewing to guide inquiry and deepen understanding of text
- Draw inferences from a text (5-H.3)
- Read fantasy with illustrations (5-K.1)
- Read realistic fiction with illustrations (5-K.2)
- Read historical fiction with illustrations (5-K.3)
- Read realistic fiction (5-L.1)
- Read historical fiction (5-L.2)
- Read poetry (5-L.3)
- Read drama (5-L.4)
- Read about animals (5-M.1)
- Read about art, music and traditions (5-M.2)
- Read about famous places (5-M.3)
- Read about sports and hobbies (5-M.4)
- Read about famous people (5-N.1)
- Read about business and technology (5-N.2)
- Read about science and nature (5-N.3)
- Read about history (5-N.4)
- Find words using context (5-DD.1)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (5-DD.3)
- Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures (5-DD.4)
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5.CC.1.3 Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
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5.CC.1.4 Consider different purposes, audiences, and perspectives in exploring texts
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5.CC.1.5 Apply a variety of thinking skills to gain meaning from texts
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5.CC.1.6 Identify how differences in context, perspectives, and voice influence meaning in texts
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5.CC.1.7 Explain the role of language in personal, social, and cultural identity
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5.CC.1.8 Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and develop understanding of self, community, and world
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5.CC.1.9 Respond to text in personal and creative ways
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5.CC.1.10 Recognize how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance meaning in texts
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5.CC.1.11 Show an increasing understanding of the role of organization in meaning
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5.CC.1.12 Demonstrate awareness of the oral tradition in First Peoples cultures and the purposes of First Peoples texts
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5.CC.1.13 Identify how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to land
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5.CC.2 Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
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5.CC.2.1 Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding
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5.CC.2.2 Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
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5.CC.2.3 Use language in creative and playful ways to develop style
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5.CC.2.4 Communicate in writing using paragraphs and applying conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Use coordinating conjunctions (5-O.2)
- Use the correct frequently confused word (5-S.1)
- Correct errors with frequently confused words (5-S.2)
- Use the correct homophone (5-Z.1)
- Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y (5-GG.3)
- Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y (5-GG.4)
- Form plurals: review (5-GG.5)
- Form and use plurals: review (5-GG.6)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (5-GG.8)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (5-GG.9)
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns (5-HH.2)
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun (5-HH.3)
- Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" (5-HH.4)
- Compound subjects and objects with personal pronouns (5-HH.5)
- Use possessive pronouns (5-HH.6)
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (5-HH.7)
- Use reflexive pronouns (5-HH.8)
- Use relative pronouns: who and whom (5-HH.10)
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (5-HH.11)
- Use the correct modal verb (5-II.3)
- Use the correct subject or verb (5-JJ.1)
- Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects (5-JJ.2)
- Form and use the regular past tense (5-KK.2)
- Form and use the irregular past tense (5-KK.3)
- Form and use the simple past, present and future tense (5-KK.4)
- Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense (5-KK.5)
- Use the progressive verb tenses (5-KK.6)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (5-KK.7)
- Choose between the past tense and past participle (5-KK.8)
- Use the perfect verb tenses (5-KK.9)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (5-KK.10)
- Use relative adverbs (5-LL.4)
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs (5-LL.5)
- Use adjectives to compare (5-LL.7)
- Spell adjectives that compare (5-LL.8)
- Use adjectives with more and most (5-LL.9)
- Use adverbs to compare (5-LL.10)
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (5-NN.3)
- Fill in the missing correlative conjunction (5-NN.4)
- Pronoun-verb contractions (5-OO.1)
- Contractions with "not" (5-OO.2)
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words and interjections (5-PP.1)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (5-PP.2)
- Punctuating dialogue (5-RR.3)
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5.CC.2.5 Develop and apply expanding word knowledge
- Words with pre- (5-U.1)
- Words with re- (5-U.2)
- Words with sub- (5-U.3)
- Words with mis- (5-U.4)
- Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non- (5-U.5)
- Words with -ful (5-U.6)
- Words with -less (5-U.7)
- Words with -able and -ible (5-U.8)
- Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots (5-V.1)
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (5-V.2)
- Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (5-V.3)
- Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (5-V.4)
- Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (5-V.5)
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (5-V.6)
- Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings (5-V.7)
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5.CC.2.6 Use oral storytelling processes
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5.CC.2.7 Transform ideas and information to create original texts
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5.C Content
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5.C.1 Story/text
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5.C.1.1 forms, functions, and genres of text
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5.C.1.2 text features
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5.C.1.3 literary elements
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5.C.1.4 literary devices
- Sort sensory details (5-E.1)
- Identify similes and metaphors (5-F.1)
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors (5-F.2)
- Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone (5-F.3)
- Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 (5-BB.1)
- Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1 (5-BB.2)
- Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 (5-BB.3)
- Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2 (5-BB.4)
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5.C.1.5 perspective/point of view
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5.C.2 Strategies and processes
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5.C.2.1 reading strategies
- Draw inferences from a text (5-H.3)
- Read fantasy with illustrations (5-K.1)
- Read realistic fiction with illustrations (5-K.2)
- Read historical fiction with illustrations (5-K.3)
- Read realistic fiction (5-L.1)
- Read historical fiction (5-L.2)
- Read poetry (5-L.3)
- Read drama (5-L.4)
- Read about animals (5-M.1)
- Read about art, music and traditions (5-M.2)
- Read about famous places (5-M.3)
- Read about sports and hobbies (5-M.4)
- Read about famous people (5-N.1)
- Read about business and technology (5-N.2)
- Read about science and nature (5-N.3)
- Read about history (5-N.4)
- Find words using context (5-DD.1)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (5-DD.3)
- Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures (5-DD.4)
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5.C.2.2 oral language strategies
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5.C.2.3 metacognitive strategies
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5.C.2.4 writing processes
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5.C.3 Language features, structures, and conventions
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5.C.3.1 features of oral language
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5.C.3.2 paragraphing
- Choose the best transition (5-O.3)
- Remove the sentence that does not belong (5-O.6)
- Choose the best topic sentence (5-P.1)
- Choose the best concluding sentence (5-P.2)
- Choose reasons to support an opinion (5-Q.3)
- Identify supporting details in literary texts (5-Q.4)
- Identify supporting details in informational texts (5-Q.5)
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5.C.3.3 sentence structure and grammar
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (5-FF.1)
- Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence (5-FF.2)
- Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence (5-FF.3)
- Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? (5-FF.4)
- Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (5-FF.5)
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? (5-FF.6)
- Identify dependent and independent clauses (5-FF.7)
- Is the sentence simple or compound? (5-FF.8)
- Is the sentence simple, compound or complex? (5-FF.9)
- Order the words to create a sentence (5-FF.10)
- Identify nouns – with abstract nouns (5-GG.1)
- Identify common and proper nouns (5-GG.2)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (5-GG.7)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (5-GG.9)
- Identify personal pronouns (5-HH.1)
- Identify relative pronouns (5-HH.9)
- Identify main verbs and helping verbs (5-II.1)
- What does the modal verb show? (5-II.2)
- Use the correct subject or verb (5-JJ.1)
- Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects (5-JJ.2)
- Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense? (5-KK.1)
- Identify adjectives (5-LL.1)
- Order adjectives (5-LL.2)
- Identify adverbs (5-LL.3)
- Is the word an adjective or adverb? (5-LL.6)
- Identify prepositions (5-MM.1)
- Identify prepositions and their objects (5-MM.2)
- Identify prepositional phrases (5-MM.3)
- Prepositions: review (5-MM.4)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (5-NN.1)
- Identify subordinating conjunctions (5-NN.2)
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5.C.3.4 conventions
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (5-FF.1)
- Spell adjectives that compare (5-LL.8)
- Pronoun-verb contractions (5-OO.1)
- Contractions with "not" (5-OO.2)
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words and interjections (5-PP.1)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (5-PP.2)
- Correct capitalization errors (5-QQ.1)
- Capitalizing titles (5-QQ.2)
- Formatting and capitalizing titles (5-RR.2)
- Punctuating dialogue (5-RR.3)
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