SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT **for incoming grade 5 students**

Common Core Standards:Rubric for Summer Reading Assignment(Students Entering Grade 5)CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and whendrawing inferences from the text.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons andinformation.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1a Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure inwhich related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1c Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition).CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1d Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.Approaching Standards (C) Meeting Standards(B) Exceeding Standards(A)• Response may lack anopening and/or closing.• Response contains anopening and closing• Response contains anopening and closing• Response makes little to statement.statement.no attempt to citetextual evidence tosupport theme.• Response cites textualevidence to supporttheme.• Response cites multiplepieces of textualevidence and• Response shows only a • Response shows anexplanation of evidence.minimal understandingof the task.understanding of thetask.• Response is organizedwith use of transitional• Response contains• Response is organizedwords and/or phrases.incomplete or incorrectsentence structure.and uses transitionsbetween ideas.• Response extendsunderstanding of the• Response is minimal ordisorganized.• Sentence structureerrors are few, and don’ttask with the use of anextension.• Patterns of mechanicalinterfere with meaning. • Sentence structure• errors evident.• No consistent pattern ofmechanical errors.contains few, if anyerrors.• Very few, if any, errors inmechanics.Name: _________________________________