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Grade 5 - Academic Standards Alignment

Song
Standard(s) Addressed
All Songs
 		 Music Standards

2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music

Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing a varied repertoire of music.

Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills
2.1 Sing with accuracy in a developmentally appropriate range.
2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory.
2.3 Play rhythmic ostinatos on classroom instruments.

R1.1 Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately 
and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression. (Students 
improve fluency as they read song lyrics while singing.)
 
Thinking While You Read
 		 R1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary 
Development
Students use their knowledge...literary context clues, to determine 
the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the 
precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words.

R2.4 Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text 
and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge.

R2.5 Distinguish facts, supported inferences, and opinions in text.

R3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant 
works of literature. They begin to find ways to clarify the ideas and 
make connections between literary works.
 
Polly Wolly Prefix
 		 Though not specifically sited in the CA State Standards, prefix 
meaning is tested on the CSTs. For example, released test 
question 26 asks, "The prefix fore- in the word foretelling means..."
 
The Writer''s Song
 		 W1.2 Create multiple-paragraph expository compositions:
Provide details and transitional expressions that link one paragraph 
to another in a clear line of thought.
WOEL1.4 Use correct capitalization.
WOEL1.5 Spell roots, suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable 
constructions correctly.
 
Plural Y and F
 		  
Parts of Speech
 		  
Talk-Talk Song
 		 WOEL1.3 use quotation marks around the exact words of a 
speaker...
WOEL1.4 Use correct capitalization.
 
4 Kinds of Sentences
 		  
Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant
 		 R1.3 Understand and explain frequently used synonyms, antonyms, 
and homographs.
In addition, the state test assumes the students understand the 
meaning of these three terms.
 
Fiction Doodle Dandy
 		 R3.2 Identify the main problem or conflict of the plot and explain how 
it is resolved.
W1.1 Create multiple-paragraph narrative compositions:
a. Establish and develop a situation or plot.
b. Describe the setting.
 
Angles Song
 		 MG2.1 Measure, identify, and draw angles, perpendicular and 
parallel lines, rectangles, and triangles by using appropriate tools 
(e.g., straightedge, ruler, compass, protractor, drawing software).
 
Parallel and Perpendicular
 		 MG2.1 Measure, identify, and draw angles, perpendicular and 
parallel lines, rectangles, and triangles by using appropriate tools 
(e.g., straightedge, ruler, compass, protractor, drawing software).
 
Triangle Bush
 		 MG2.1 Measure, identify, and draw angles, perpendicular and 
parallel lines, rectangles, and triangles by using appropriate tools 
(e.g., straightedge, ruler, compass, protractor, drawing software).
 
Quadrilateral
 		  
Perimeter Area Song
 		 MG1.4 Differentiate between, and use appropriate units of 
measures for, two-and three-dimensional objects (i.e., find the 
perimeter, area, volume).
 
Measurement Song
 		  
All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.)