Fifth Grade Supply List 2025-2026

Fifth Grade TWDL Supply List 2025-2026

• Key Ideas and Details in Informational Text


• Summarizing, Inferencing, Relationships


• Key Ideas and Details in Literature


• Compare and Contrast


• Theme


• Craft and Structure in Informational Text


• Unfamiliar Words


• Text Structure


• Analyzing Multiple Accounts


• Craft and Structure in Literature


• Language and Meaning


• Point of View


• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas in Informational Text


• Information from Multiple Sources


• Supporting Evidence


• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas in Literature


• Stories of the Same Genre


• Analyzing Visual Elements

• Read a Variety of Texts: Build an at-home library of children’s stories, non-fiction texts, magazines, recipes, comics, etc.
   
• Choose Appropriate Books: Help your child pick books that are not too hard but not too easy.
   
• Read to Your Child Every Day: Model good reading strategies to your child by reading a few minutes each day.
   
• Have Your Child Read to You Every Day: Spend 15-20 minutes listening to your child read to you before they are tired.
   
• Talk About It: Ask your child questions about what they read.
   
• Have them retell the story in their own words including a description of the characters and setting and what happens in the book (beginning, middle, end, problem, solution).
   
• Practice Text Tracking: If your child is an early reader, encourage them to point to each word.
   
• Reread Favorite Books: Repeat favorite books over and over to build reading fluency.
   
• Reading Apps: Download reading apps for your device.
   
• Practice Decoding Strategies: If your child is having trouble figuring out a word, remind them of the following strategies:
  • Eagle Eye-Look at the pictures for clues.
  • Lips the Fish-Get your lips ready and say the first sound.
  • Stretchy Snake-Stretch out the sounds and then shrink them back together.
  • Chunky Monkey-Look for chunks in the word that you know and then blend the words together.
  • Skippy Frog-Skip the word and then go back and re-read.
  • Tryin’ Lion-Try it again.
  • Helpful Kangaroo-Ask for help!

In grade 5, instructional time will emphasize five areas: (1) multiplying and dividing multi-digit whole numbers, including using a standard algorithm; (2) adding and subtracting fractions and decimals with procedural fluency, developing an understanding of multiplication and division of fractions and decimals; (3) developing an understanding of the coordinate plane and plotting pairs of numbers in the first quadrant; (4) extending geometric reasoning to include volume and (5) extending understanding of data to include the mean.

Curricular content for all subjects must integrate critical-thinking, problem-solving, and workforce-literacy skills; communication, reading, and writing skills; mathematics skills; collaboration skills; contextual and applied-learning skills; technology-literacy skills; information and media-literacy skills; and civic-engagement skills.

Instructional Practices 
Teaching from a range of complex text is optimized when teachers in all subject areas implement the following strategies on a routine basis:

1. Ensuring wide reading from complex text that varies in length.
2. Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
3. Emphasizing text-specific complex questions, and cognitively complex tasks, reinforce focus on the text and cultivate independence.
4. Emphasizing students supporting answers based upon evidence from the text.
5. Providing extensive research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).

Science and Engineering Practices (NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education, 2010)

• Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering).
• Developing and using models.
• Planning and carrying out investigations.
• Analyzing and interpreting data.
• Using mathematics, information and computer technology, and computational thinking.
• Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering).
• Engaging in argument from evidence.
• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.

Florida Science Standards

The fifth grade Social Studies curriculum consists of the following content area strands: American History, Geography, Economics, and Civics. Fifth grade students will study the development of our nation with emphasis on the people, places and events up to approximately 1850. Students will be exposed to the historical, geographic, political, economic, and sociological events which influenced the initial inhabitation, exploration, colonization, and early national periods of American History. So that students can see clearly the relationship between cause and effect in history, students should also have the opportunity to understand how individuals and events of this period influenced later events in the development of our nation.

Florida Social Studies Standards

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills necessary to make healthy choices, maintain and improve quality of life, promote personal health and prevent injuries. This course also includes content related to resiliency education: civic and character education and life skills education.  

The content should include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Injury Prevention and Safety
• Internet Safety
• Nutrition
• Personal Health
• Prevention and Control of Disease
• Substance Use and Abuse Prevention
• Resiliency Education

Florida Health Standards