Expository Writing - Composition
5th Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.15*
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Students use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.15.B*
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develop drafts by choosing an appropriate organizational strategy (e.g., sequence of events, cause-effect, compare-contrast) and building on ideas to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.18*
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Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.18.A*
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create multi-paragraph essays to convey information about the topic that:
- present effective introductions and concluding paragraphs;
- guide and inform the reader's understanding of key ideas and evidence;
- include specific facts, details, and examples in an appropriately organized structure; and
- use a variety of sentence structures and transitions to link paragraphs;
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Alabama Course of Study Standards:
35
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Write informative or explanatory texts using multiple sources to examine a topic, conveying ideas and information clearly and incorporating a strong organizational structure, relevant details, and elaboration. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
5.W.2.a
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.5.2a
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE5W2a
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.5.2.a
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.5.2a
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Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. |
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.5.2.b
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Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting, illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
5W2a
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Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general focus, and organize related information
logically. |
Ohio's Learning Standards:
W.5.2.a
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Introduce a topic clearly, provide a
general observation and focus, and
group related information logically;
include formatting (e.g., headings),
illustrations, and multimedia to aid in
comprehension, if needed. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
5.W.TTP.2.a
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Introduce a topic by providing a general observation and focus.
5.W.TTP.2.b - Group related information logically.
5.W.TTP.2.c - Include formatting features, illustrations, and multimedia, when needed, to provide clarity to the reader. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.5.3.a
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Organization: Include an introduction that establishes a purpose and engages the reader. Text builds to a concluding statement appropriate to the mode of writing and related to the body of the composition. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
5.W.2.b
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.5.2b
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE5W2b
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.5.2.b
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.5.2b
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.5.2.c
Tennessee Academic Standards:
5.W.TTP.2.d
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Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
5W2b
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Develop a topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other relevant
information; include text features, illustrations, and multimedia to aid comprehension. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.5.2.b
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Informative text that introduces a topic clearly, use topic- and genre-specific language to provide a general observation, focus, and group related information logically. Include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension and to link ideas within and across categories of information. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
41
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Write using grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases accurately, including those that signal contrasting ideas, additional information, and other logical relationships. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
5.W.2.c
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Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially). |
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.5.2c
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE5W2c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.5.2.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.5.2c
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Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially). |
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.5.2.d
Tennessee Academic Standards:
5.W.TTP.2.f
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Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
5W2d
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Use appropriate transitional/linking words, phrases, and clauses to clarify and
connect ideas and concepts. |
Ohio's Learning Standards:
W.5.2.c
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Link ideas within and across categories
of information using words, phrases, and
clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially). |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
W.5.3.b
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Transitions: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases that logically connect and develop ideas. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
5.W.2.d
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.5.2d
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE5W2d
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.5.2.d
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.5.2d
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.5.2.e
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
5W2c
Tennessee Academic Standards:
5.W.TTP.2.g
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Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
5.W.2.e
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.5.2e
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE5W2e
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.5.2.e
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.5.2e
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.5.2.f
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
5W2e
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Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
5.W.TTP.2.e
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Provide a conclusion related to the information or explanation presented. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.5.A
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Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.5.B
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Identify and introduce the topic clearly.
- E05.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.5.C
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Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic; include illustrations and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
- E05.E.1.1.2 - Develop the analysis using a variety of evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.5.D
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Group related information logically linking ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses; provide a concluding statement or section; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension.
- E05.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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E05.E.1.1.3 - Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).
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E05.E.1.1.6 - Provide a concluding section related to the analysis presented.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.5.E
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Write with an awareness of style.
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Use sentences of varying length.
- E05.D.2.1.1 - Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
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E05.D.2.1.2 - Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.*
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E05.D.2.1.3 - Choose punctuation for effect.*
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E05.D.2.1.4 - Choose words and phrases for effect.*
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E05.E.1.1.3 - Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).
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E05.E.1.1.4 - Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
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E05.E.1.1.5 - Establish and maintain a formal style.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.5.F
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
- E05.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.
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E05.D.1.1.2 - Form and use the perfect verb tenses (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked).
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E05.D.1.1.3 - Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.
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E05.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
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E05.D.1.1.5 - Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor).
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E05.D.1.1.6 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting
- inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
E05.D.1.1.7 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
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E05.D.1.1.8 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
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E05.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
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E05.D.1.2.2 - Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence.
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E05.D.1.2.3 - Use a comma to set off the words yes and no (e.g., Yes, thank you), to set off a tag question from the rest of the sentence (e.g., It’s true, isn’t it?), and to indicate direct address (e.g., Is that you, Steve?).
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E05.D.1.2.4 - Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works.
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E05.D.1.2.5 - Spell grade-appropriate words correctly.
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Arkansas Academic Standards:
5.W.2.S
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Write informative or explanatory pieces, using multiple sources to examine a topic. |
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