5th Grade

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.)