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Language Arts - Grade 5 Literacy

World Literature: Read/Diverse Cultures
The learner will be able to experience and develop an awareness of literature that reflects a diverse society.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.13.f Home
  
Genre: Explore
The learner will be able to experience various literary and media genres.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12 Home
  
Genre: Independent Reading/Explore
The learner will be able to read independently for a variety of purposes.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.11 Home
  
Informational: Reliability/Recognize
The learner will be able to determine and evaluate the reliability of sources on a given topic (e.g., editorials, newspapers, magazines, biographies, news reports and films).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.10.e Home
  
Informational: Understand
The learner will be able to understand a variety of informational texts which include primary sources (e.g., autobiographical sketches, letters, and diaries, directions, and internet sites).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.09.d Home
  
Informational: Variety/Purpose/Read
The learner will be able to read to gain information.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.11.b Home
  
Informational Text: Comprehension
The learner will be able to apply comprehension skills and strategies to informational text (e.g., pre-reading and active comprehension).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.10.c Home
  
Author Intention
The learner will be able to identify the author's purpose in a given passage (e.g., to entertain, to inform, to explain, to persuade).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.b.3 Home
  
Genre: Recognize
The learner will be able to read and recognize a variety of literary (e.g., poetry, novels, historical fiction, nonfiction) and media (e.g., photographs, the arts, film, video) genres.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12.a Home
  
Multicultural Literature: Culture/Ethnic
The learner will be able to identify how culture, ethnic, and historical eras are presented in print and nonprint works.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12.g Home
  
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Information Processing

Information/Ideas: Skills/Create
The learner will be able to develop appropriate informational skills and study skills to facilitate learning.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.09 Home
  
Organizing Information: Retrieve
The learner will be able to retrieve, organize, and represent information (e.g., charts, maps, graphs, forms, timelines, and outlines).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.09.g Home
  
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Language Arts Processes

Oral/Written/Visual Text: Styles/Writing
The learner will be able to view, read, or listen to a variety of writing styles.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.2.09.d Home
  
Communication Processes: Nonverbal
The learner will be able to use different voice levels and speech patterns for small groups, informal discussions, and reports.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.01.i Home
  
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Language Expressions

Interjection: Identify/Use
The learner will be able to appropriately use an interjection in a sentence.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01.h Home
  
Expression: Facility/Show
The learner will be able to demonstrate facility in use of language (i.e., unique word choice).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.2.07.h Home
  
Noun: Use
The learner will be able to use nouns correctly (e.g., common/proper, singular/plural; possessives; predicate nouns).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01.a Home
  
Adverb: Use/Form
The learner will be able to use adverb forms correctly Ie.g., proper comparative forms, adverbs of degree {too, very}).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01.f Home
  
Pronoun: Use
The learner will be able to use pronouns in sentences correctly (e.g., agreement with antecedent, reflexive, possessive, correct pronoun case).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01.c Home
  
Sentence Structure: Apply/Communicate
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.04 Home
  
Verb: Use
The learner will be able to use verbs correctly (e.g., action/linking, regular/irregular; "be"/"have", verb phrases, agreement with comparative forms).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01.b Home
  
Fragment: Identify
The learner will be able to recognize and edit incomplete sentences and run-on sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.04.b Home
  
Sentence Combining: Compound/Use
The learner will be able to use compound subjects and/or predicates when combining sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.04.d Home
  
Sentence Combining: Simple/Compound
The learner will be able to combine simple sentences to create compound sentences.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.04.c Home
  
Expression: Analyze
The learner will be able to respond and analyze the effects of sound in language (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, beat).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.03.c Home
  
Conventions: Standard English
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of standard English usage.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01 Home
  
Syntax: Variety
The learner will be able to demonstrate syntactic variety (i.e., vary sentence structure).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.2.07.g Home
  
Usage: Errors/Identify
The learner will be able to recognize usage errors (e.g., double negatives, troublesome words {affect/effect, sit/set, lie/lay, may/can, leave/let, teach/learn}).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01.i Home
  
Preposition: Use
The learner will be able to correctly use prepositions in a sentence (e.g., place prepositional phrases in correct location within the sentence).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01.e Home
  
Conjunction: Use
The learner will be able to correctly use conjunctions in a sentence (e.g., coordinating).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.01.g Home
  
Verbs
The learner will be able to use verbs appropriately (e.g., action/linking, regular/irregular; "be"/"have," verb phrases, agreement with subject in person and number).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5. 5.3.01.b Home
  
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Language Mechanics

Apostrophe: Possessive/Plural
The learner will be able to form contractions and possessives using apostrophes.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.02.e Home
  
Capitalization
The learner will be able to capitalize correctly sentence beginnings, proper nouns and adjectives, titles, abbreviations, quotations, parts of friendly letters and business letters).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.02.a Home
  
Comma: Variety
The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of comma rules, colons (between the hour and minute and after the greeting of a buisness letter), semicolons (in combining sentences), and quotation marks in titles.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.02.c Home
  
Quotation Mark: Dialogue
The learner will be able to use quotation marks in a written dialogue, including their use with capitalization, end marks, and explanatory material.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.02.d Home
  
Abbreviate: Use
The learner will be able to correctly use abbreviations.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.02.f Home
  
Punctuation: Correct
The learner will be able to use correct end of sentence punctuation (e.g., period, question mark).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.02.b Home
  
Mechanics: Standard English
The learner will be able to apply Standard English language mechanics.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.3.02 Home
  
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Auditory Discrimination: Awareness/Sound
The learner will be able to create awareness of sounds of language by frequent exposure to various auditory experiences (e.g., poetry, music lyrics, sound effects, books on tape, read alouds).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.03.a Home
  
Behaviors: Variety/Attentive
The learner will be able to listen attentively by facing the speaker, asking questions, and paraphrasing what is said.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.01.a Home
  
Behaviors: Listening Skills/ Expand
The learner will be able to continue to develop oral language and listening skills.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.01 Home
  
Communication: Maintain/Nonverbal
The learner will be able to interpret and use a variety of non-verbal communication techniques (e.g., gestures, facial expression, posture).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.01.j Home
  
Rhyme: Understand
The learner will be able to understand rhyming patterns in printed materials.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.03.b Home
  
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Mass Media: Presence/Develop Awareness
The learner will be able to develop an awareness of the presence of mass media (e.g., television, print materials, radio, internet, newspapers, peroidicals) on daily life.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.09.i Home
  
Media Form: Variety/Use
The learner will be able to use media (e.g., photographs, videos, films, the arts, on-line catalogs, non-fiction books, encyclopedias, CD-ROM references, internet) to view, read, and represent information.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.09.b Home
  
Articles: Newspaper/Write
The learner will be able to write journalistic articles.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.2.11.h Home
  
Nonprint: Inferences/Make
The learner will be able to make inferences about print and nonprint materials.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12.f Home
  
Main Idea: Relate/Nonprint
The learner will be able to relate text to prior personal and historical experiences, current events, as well as previously read print and non-print media.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.07.g Home
  
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Reading Operations

Figurative Language: Understand/Role
The learner will be able to understand the way in which figurative language in used to derive meaning from text (e.g., personification, simile, metaphor, imagery, hyperbole).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12.l Home
  
Strategies: Comprehension/Reflect
The learner will be able to reflect on comprehension strategies used to make meaning in reading materials.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.b.12 Home
  
Strategies: Reading to Learn/Curriculum
The learner will be able to develop skills to facilitate reading to learn across the curriculum.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.10 Home
  
Strategies: Improve Fluency
The learner will be able to read to build fluency.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.11.f Home
  
Purposes: Establishing
The learner will be able to set a purpose for reading (e.g., to understand, to interpret, to enjoy, to solve problems, to locate specific information/facts, to discover models for writing).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.07.a Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Motivation/Create
The learner will be able to develop and sustain a motivation for reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.13 Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Independent/Daily
The learner will be able to read independently daily.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.05.f Home
  
Reading: Orally
The learner will be able to read orally using appropriate pronunciation, expression, and rate.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.05.d Home
  
Reading: Confidence/Various/Increase
The learner will be able to read with fluency and confidence from a variety of text (e.g., poetry, drama, newspapers, novels, textbooks).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.05.b Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Literary/Relate
The learner will be able to relate literary experiences (e.g., book discussions, literacy circles, writing, oral presentations, artistic expressions).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.13.d Home
  
Read Aloud: Text/Fluency/Confidence
The learner will be able to read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy, and confidence.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.05 Home
  
Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08 Home
  
Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to use metacognitive and self-monitoring reading strategies to improve comprehension (e.g., rereading, identifying miscues, reading ahead, asking for help, and drawing on earlier reading).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.a.3 Home
  
Post-Reading: Strategies
The learner will be able to check for understanding after reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.b Home
  
Prereading: Strategies/Apply
The learner will be able to employ pre-reading strategies to facilitate comprehension.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.07 Home
  
Response: Creative
The learner will be able to participate in creative responses to text (e.g., choral reading, discussion, dramatization, and oral presentations).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.01.e Home
  
Response: Develop/Mental Image
The learner will be able to develop mental images while reading.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.a.4 Home
  
Response: React
The learner will be able to express reactions and personal opinions to a selection or relating the selection to a personal experience.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.a.5 Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Self-Selected/Read
The learner will be able to read self-selected literature independently on a daily basis.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.13.c Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Personal Enjoyment
The learner will be able to read on own for pleasure.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.11.d, 5.1.13.g Home
  
Reading Behaviors: Confidence
The learner will be able to increase confidence and poise in reading aloud (e.g., paired reading, shared readingk, choral reading, echo reading, and reader's theater).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.05.a Home
  
Word Recognition: Phonemic Awareness
The learner will be able to broaden reading skills through phonemic awareness.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.03 Home
  
Cause/Effect: Identify
The learner will be able to identify cause and effect in reading materials.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.b.8 Home
  
Main Idea: Identify
The learner will be able to select main idea and supporting details from text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.b.2 Home
  
Draw Conclusion: Support
The learner will be able to draw conclusions that are supported by the text.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.a.8 Home
  
Predicting: Text Feature
The learner will be able to make predictions about text using text features (e.g., title, author, illustrations, and text format).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.07.f Home
  
Predict Outcome: Revise
The learner will be able to predicting outcomes based upon prior knowledge and adjusting appropriately.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.a.2 Home
  
Predictions: Reading Materials/Make
The learner will be able to predict and determine the sequence of events in a story including possible problems and solutions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12.b Home
  
Fact/Opinion
The learner will be able to distinguish between fact/opinion and reality/fiction.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.b.9 Home
  
Directions: Multiple/Comprehend
The learner will be able to understand, follow, and give oral multi-step directions that may include illustrations.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.01.c Home
  
Summary: Passage
The learner will be able to summarize selected passages.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12.j Home
  
Theme: Recognize/Common/Literature
The learner will be able to recognize common themes between to passages.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.b.11 Home
  
Inference: Information
The learner will be able to make inferences and recogne unstated assumptions.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.a.6 Home
  
Figurative Language: Identify
The learner will be able to identify figurative language in reading materials (e.g., idioms, similies, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, imagery).
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.08.b.10 Home
  
Compare: Cultures/Differing
The learner will be able to compare and contrast different versions of the same stories/events that reflect different cultures and/or different perspectives.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12.i Home
  
Compare/Contrast: Plot/Characters
The learner will be able to compare and contrast plot and characters with support from print and nonprint materials.
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TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Grade 5, 5.1.12.h Home