text: Reading Comprehension: Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment. Teachers will administer a 1:1 reading comprehension assessment for qualifying students
  Using quotes, drawing inferences
  Comparing and contrasting overall structure, events, ideas and concepts between two or more texts
  Syllables, affixes, spelling patterns
  Trimester 3 will focus on writing opinion pieces with supporting reasons and information. Students will also write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events. Students will continue to build on their development and organizational skills as well as grammar and conventions.
  In trimester 2, fifth grade students will begin the Amplify Science units Patterns of Earth and Sky and The Earth System .
  In Math, core instruction during the second trimester will focus on operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to the hundredths place. Students will extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions. Students will also study geometric measurement and volume.