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Expository Writing - Letters & Comments on Texts

5th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 5.18.B*

write formal and informal letters that convey ideas, include important information, demonstrate a sense of closure, and use appropriate conventions (e.g., date, salutation, closing); and

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 5.18.C*

write responses to literary or expository texts and provide evidence from the text to demonstrate understanding.

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 35

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.

Arkansas Academic Standards: W.5.2.A

Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include text features when useful to enhance comprehension.

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

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

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

Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general focus, and organize related information logically.

Ohio's Learning Standards: W.5.2.a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 5W2d

Use appropriate transitional/linking words, phrases, and clauses to clarify and connect ideas and concepts.

Ohio's Learning Standards: W.5.2.c

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

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

Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

Arkansas Academic Standards: W.5.2.F

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

Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 5.W.TTP.2.e

Provide a conclusion related to the information or explanation presented.

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