Testing and Standards In my placement, I'm there during Language Arts so I'm not able to observe math standards much. I do see several Language Arts standards being addressed where students are given paragraphs with mistakes in them and they need to proofread and edit them. The fifth graders learn proofreading marks for this such as using a ^ to insert a missing word or underlining a letter three times if it needs to be capitalized. They've also reviewed parts of speech such as conjunctions, prepositions, interjections, and figurative writing like personification, metaphors, and similes. I've noticed a big emphasis on using key details and text evidence in discussing and writing about different subjects. There is also an emphasis on deciding what the main idea in a story or article is. The students all have Chromebooks and often are working on their own stories or writing about something that they've read. I think this is because in fifth grade, all students w...
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