5th Grade CCSS: Speaking and Listening

For fifth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of speaking and listening skills related to the language arts. Collaborative work, oral presentations, and the ability to integrate media, digital tools and group projects are the cornerstones of this area. Among the complete standards for this grade, fifth graders will be asked to: participate in collaborative discussions well-prepared through research and reading while following standard rules of listening, asking questions, explaining their own ideas, and speaking on topic, be able to paraphrase materials read aloud or presented in media formats, including visually, quantitatively and orally, be able to provide oral reports on appropriate topics sequencing ideas and using relevant facts, create audio recordings or stories which might include visual and multimedia displays, adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks using formal English when correct.