California 5th Grade ELA Test Prep: Common Core Learning Standards

Our CCLS (Common Core Learning Standards) series for 5th Grade English Language Arts version prepares students throughout California for the required Common Core Learning Standards to test students' reading proficiency. Emphasis in this book is placed on Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text Common Core Standards. Practice problems in this book involve: explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text; determining a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges; comparing and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama; determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text; explaining how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story; describing how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described; analyzing how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text; and comparing and contrasting stories in the same genre. These standards are covered extensively by the practice problems. This book contains over 250 practice exercises aligned to the Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text Common Core Standards. In addition the book contains an answer key to practice exercises.