Grade guides · Usually ages 10 and 11

What children usually learn in Grade 5

What the year usually covers, subject by subject, in our own words from the curriculum you choose, with games that practise it.

Curriculum: United States · Ontario · British Columbia · England

Math

  • Decimals to thousandths, and adding, taking away, multiplying and dividing them 5.NBT
  • Multiplying larger numbers with ease, and dividing by two-digit numbers 5.NBT
  • Adding and taking away fractions with different bottom numbers, and multiplying and dividing fractions 5.NF
  • Volume of boxes, counted in cubes and worked out by multiplying 5.MD
  • Plotting points on a grid to show a pattern or a problem 5.G
  • Number patterns, and writing calculations with brackets 5.OA

Practise it with

Reading

  • The theme from how characters face a challenge, and summing it up RL.5.2
  • Comparing two characters, settings, or texts on the same topic RL.5.3, RI.5.9
  • The main ideas of an information text, and how an author backs a point RI.5.2, RI.5.8
  • Writing opinions, explanations and stories, planned and then improved W.5.1 to W.5.5
  • Research from several sources, with notes and a list of them W.5.7, W.5.8
  • Verb tenses, joining words, and commas L.5.1, L.5.2

Practise it with

Science

  • Matter made of particles too small to see, and what happens when things are mixed 5-PS1
  • Gravity pulling things down towards the Earth 5-PS2
  • Plants making food from air, water and light, and food webs 5-LS1, 5-LS2
  • The sun as a star, and shadows and stars through the day and the year 5-ESS1
  • Earth's land, water and air working together, and protecting the environment 5-ESS2, 5-ESS3

Practise it with

Geography

  • Countries and continents, and where they are on a world map D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Trade, and how goods travel between countries D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Time zones on a turning Earth D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Comparing maps, and what each one leaves out D2.Geo, 3-5
  • How environments shape where and how people live D2.Geo, 3-5

Practise it with

History

  • Their country's early history, its peoples and its founding D2.His, 3-5
  • Seeing an event through different people's eyes D2.His, 3-5
  • First-hand and second-hand sources, and checking a claim D2.His, 3-5
  • How a country is governed, and rights and responsibilities D2.Civ, 3-5
  • Explaining a question about the past with evidence D2.His, 3-5

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Where this comes from

Written in our own words from the documents below. It says what the year usually covers; it is not the official text, which the curriculum's own pages hold.

  • Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Next Generation Science Standards (2013), by NGSS Lead States
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), by National Council for the Social Studies

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