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Standards:Common CoreMinnesota
Grade 5 skill plan
Every Grade 5 skill in Vita, in the order we suggest teaching them. Tap a skill to practice it, or print the plan and check skills off as your child earns each gold star.
115 skills this year: 57 math, 39 language arts, 12 science, 7 social studies. That's about 4 a week over a 36-week school year, and 15 to 20 minutes of practice a day is plenty for most kids.
Standards: Common Core State Standards for math and language arts, NGSS for science, and the C3 Framework for social studies.
Math 57 skills
Expressions and patterns
- 5.1Order of operations5.OA.A.1
- 5.2Write expressions5.OA.A.2
- 5.3Powers of 105.NBT.A.2
- 5.4Compare two patterns5.OA.B.3
- 5.5Ordered pairs from two patterns5.OA.B.3
- 5.6Exponents with base 105.NBT.A.2
- 5.7Expressions in words5.OA.A.2
- 5.8Brackets and parentheses5.OA.A.1
Place value and decimals
- 5.9Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,0005.NBT.A.2
- 5.10Decimals in expanded form5.NBT.A.3
- 5.11Compare decimals to thousandths5.NBT.A.3
- 5.12Round decimals5.NBT.A.4
- 5.13Decimals in word form5.NBT.A.3a
- 5.14Value of a decimal digit5.NBT.A.1
- 5.15Round decimals to a whole number5.NBT.A.4
Multiplication and division
- 5.16Multi-digit multiplication5.NBT.B.5
- 5.17Divide by two-digit numbers5.NBT.B.6
- 5.18Multiplication word problems5.NBT.B.5
- 5.19Division word problems5.NBT.B.6
- 5.20What to do with the remainder5.NBT.B.6
Decimal operations
- 5.21Add and subtract decimals5.NBT.B.7
- 5.22Multiply decimals5.NBT.B.7
- 5.23Divide decimals5.NBT.B.7
- 5.24Multiply decimals with a grid5.NBT.B.7
- 5.25Decimal money problems5.NBT.B.7
Fractions
- 5.26Add fractions with unlike denominators5.NF.A.1
- 5.27Subtract fractions with unlike denominators5.NF.A.1
- 5.28Fractions as division5.NF.B.3
- 5.29Multiply fractions5.NF.B.4
- 5.30Multiplying as scaling5.NF.B.5
- 5.31Divide with unit fractions5.NF.B.7
- 5.32Fraction word problems5.NF.A.2
- 5.33Add fractions with fraction bars5.NF.A.1
- 5.34Area with fraction side lengths5.NF.B.4b
- 5.35Simplest form5.NF.A.1
- 5.36Find a common denominator5.NF.A.1
- 5.37A fraction of a number5.NF.B.4
- 5.38Mixed numbers to improper fractions5.NF.B.4
- 5.39Fractions and decimals5.NBT.A.3
- 5.40Add mixed numbers with unlike denominators5.NF.A.1
- 5.41Estimate with benchmark fractions5.NF.A.2
- 5.42Multiply mixed numbers5.NF.B.6
Measurement and volume
- 5.43Convert units5.MD.A.1
- 5.44Volume with unit cubes5.MD.C.4
- 5.45Volume of rectangular prisms5.MD.C.5
- 5.46Add volumes5.MD.C.5c
- 5.47Line plots with fractions5.MD.B.2
- 5.48Find a missing dimension5.MD.C.5b
- 5.49Customary conversions5.MD.A.1
- 5.50Volume of a cube5.MD.C.5
- 5.51Volume word problems5.MD.C.5b
Coordinate plane and shapes
- 5.52Read coordinates5.G.A.1
- 5.53Find the point5.G.A.2
- 5.54Classify shapes5.G.B.3
- 5.55Distance on a coordinate grid5.G.A.2
- 5.56Classify triangles by sides5.G.B.4
- 5.57Shape families5.G.B.3
Language arts 39 skills
Word study
- 5.1Greek and Latin rootsL.5.4b
- 5.2Words with more than one meaningL.5.5c
- 5.3Commonly misspelled wordsL.5.2e
- 5.4Prefix and suffix meaningsL.5.4b
- 5.5Spelling with suffixesL.5.2e
- 5.6HomographsL.5.4a
Grammar
- 5.7InterjectionsL.5.1a
- 5.8Perfect verb tensesL.5.1b
- 5.9Keep verb tenses consistentL.5.1d
- 5.10Correlative conjunctionsL.5.1e
- 5.11PrepositionsL.5.1a
- 5.12Combine sentencesL.5.3a
- 5.13Subordinating conjunctionsL.5.1a
Punctuation
- 5.14Commas in a seriesL.5.2a
- 5.15Commas after introductionsL.5.2b
- 5.16Commas with yes, no and namesL.5.2c
- 5.17Writing titlesL.5.2d
- 5.18Commas with tag questions and yes or noL.5.2c
Figurative language and vocabulary
- 5.19Personification and hyperboleL.5.5a
- 5.20Context cluesL.5.4a
- 5.21Transition wordsL.5.6
- 5.22Science and social studies wordsRI.5.4
- 5.23AnalogiesL.5.5c
- 5.24Proverbs and adagesL.5.5b
- 5.25What does the metaphor mean?L.5.5a
- 5.26Positive and negative wordsL.5.5c
- 5.27Synonyms or antonyms?L.5.5c
Reading
- 5.28Make inferencesRL.5.1
- 5.29Supporting evidenceRI.5.8
- 5.30SummarizeRI.5.2
- 5.31Theme from a character's choicesRL.5.2
- 5.32Compare charactersRL.5.3
- 5.33Fiction genresRL.5.9
- 5.34Two accounts of the same eventRI.5.6
- 5.35Two main ideasRI.5.2
- 5.36First or third person?RL.5.6
- 5.37Quote the textRI.5.1
- 5.38Choose the best titleRI.5.2
- 5.39Author's opinionRI.5.6
Science 12 skills
Matter and its changes
- 5.1Matter is made of particlesNGSS 5-PS1-1
- 5.2Mass is conservedNGSS 5-PS1-2
- 5.3Physical or chemical change?NGSS 5-PS1-4
- 5.4Gravity pulls downNGSS 5-PS2-1
Ecosystems
- 5.5Where plants get foodNGSS 5-LS1-1
- 5.6Producer, consumer or decomposer?NGSS 5-LS2-1
- 5.7Energy comes from the sunNGSS 5-PS3-1
Earth and space
- 5.8Brightness of starsNGSS 5-ESS1-1
- 5.9Shadows, day and nightNGSS 5-ESS1-2
- 5.10Earth's systemsNGSS 5-ESS2-1
- 5.11Earth's waterNGSS 5-ESS2-2
- 5.12Protect Earth's resourcesNGSS 5-ESS3-1
Social studies 7 skills
Founding the United States
- 5.1The American RevolutionC3 D2.His.14.3-5
- 5.2Order of eventsC3 D2.His.1.3-5
The Constitution
- 5.3The ConstitutionC3 D2.Civ.3.3-5
- 5.4Checks and balancesC3 D2.Civ.3.3-5
Economics and geography
- 5.5Latitude and longitudeC3 D2.Geo.1.3-5
- 5.6Supply and demandC3 D2.Eco.3.3-5
- 5.7Budgets, saving and creditC3 D2.Eco.1.3-5
Tip for homeschool families: the progress report on your Family page shows which of these skills your child has mastered, with dates. Print both to keep a record of the year.