Description: Students continue regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary, reading and writing grounded in evidence from literary and informational text, and building knowledge through content rich literary and informational text. When working with the writing and speaking and listening standards, students engage in reading and research practices as well as focus on the craft and correctness of their language.

Materials: 

• CKLA 2nd Edition

Tennessee Language Arts Standards

Description:  The standards for each grade are a progression. Each of the progressions begins in Kindergarten, with a constant movement towards high school standards as a student advances through the grades. There are four main progressions that are composed of mathematical domains/conceptual categories. Fifth grade focuses on Number and Operations in Base Ten, Number and Operations – Fractions, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Geometry and Measurement and Data.

Materials: 

• McGraw Hill - Reveal Math

Tennessee Math Standards 

Description: In fifth grade, students explore Earth’s materials and systems. They use models and data to investigate factors that affect climate and the cycling of water. Students investigate the distribution and role of the Earth’s water. Students should explain the impact on earth’s resources and climate when analyzing relationships between humans and the environment. Students examine inherited traits and variations and how these variations lead to species survival. In physical science, they learn about physical properties of matter and chemical reactions by discovering matter is not destroyed, only changed. Investigating forces and motion, students focus on balanced and unbalanced forces and explore patterns of change in physical systems along with gravitational forces.

Materials: 

• HMH Tennessee Science
• Mystery Science
• Generation Genius
• Picture Perfect STEM
• PBL Project

Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 

Description: Part 1: The History of the United States: Industrialization to the Civil Rights Movement- Fifth grade students will learn about the challenges facing the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on major American wars and events that changed our history. 

Part 2: Tennessee History- Fifth grade students will learn about the history of Tennessee, including the cultural, geographic, economic, and political influences on the state and its development.

Materials: 

• TN Experience: Industrialization to Civil Rights- Gallopade
• TN History for Kids booklet

Tennessee Social Studies Standards

Description: The course of instruction in all public schools for kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) shall include art and music education to help each student foster creative thinking, spatial learning, discipline, craftsmanship and the intrinsic rewards of hard work. All students are engaged in sequential standards-based arts instruction.

Materials: 

Tennessee Academic Standards for Fine Arts Education 

Description: The Tennessee School Counseling Student Standards describe the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and experiences that students need to achieve academic success, social and emotional development, and college and career readiness. The standards are organized in three broad domains: academic development, social and emotional development, and college and career readiness. These domains promote the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and experiences that enhance the learning process and create a culture of college and career readiness for all students.

Materials: 

• Second Step

Tennessee School Counseling Standards

Description: All school libraries shall serve as resources for students, teachers, and community members to strengthen student learning. School library information specialists shall work collaboratively with classroom teachers and school administrators to integrate both curricular concepts and information skills that assist research and other learning activities. The collection and the services of the library shall adequately support the curricular priorities within the school.

Materials: 

Tennessee Library Standards

Description: The Tennessee School Counseling Student Standards describe the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and experiences that students need to achieve academic success, social and emotional development, and college and career readiness. The standards are organized in three broad domains: academic development, social and emotional development, and college and career readiness. These domains promote the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and experiences that enhance the learning process and create a culture of college and career readiness for all students.

Materials: 

• Quaver

Tennessee Academic Standards for Fine Arts