Timber Springs Middle School Summer Reading List
Entering Fifth Grade Expectations
READING
Ø Summarize a story
Ø Identify the main idea of a passage
Ø Identify supporting details of a passage
Ø Distinguish the difference between Cause and Effect
Ø Understand the difference between fact and opinion
Ø Be able to predict an outcome to a story
Ø Understand different types of Author Viewpoints
LANGUAGE ARTS
Ø Write full developed paragraphs
Ø Respond to questions in complete sentences
Ø Know appropriate capitalization and punctuation
Ø Be able to use clues to understand new vocabulary
Ø Write legibly using cursive handwriting
MATH
Ø Mastery of multiplication tables up to 12
Ø Regrouping to the thousands
Ø Place value to the thousandths and to the billions
Ø Long division with remainders
Ø Adding and subtracting fractions
Ø Uses appropriate units of measurement (inches, feet, yard,
centimeter, meter)