Grade 5
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Communication and Multimodal Literacies
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Language Usage
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Research
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Reading Informational Text
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Reading Literary Text
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Reading and Vocabulary
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Writing
Virginia ELA Standard: 5.W.2.A
Engage in writing as a process to compose well-developed paragraphs. This includes: i. Introducing a clear topic sentence and logically organizing ideas and factual evidence to support the position in persuasive writing. ii. Developing, selecting, and organizing ideas relevant to topic, purpose, and genre, using precise and descriptive language and tone-specific vocabulary to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice. iii. Using transition words and prepositional phrases for sentence variety and link one sentence and paragraph to another. iv. Providing a concluding statement or section.