UPDATED MAY 14, 2015
5th grade Final Exam Study Guide
ENGLISH
Identify types of sentences (Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, Exclamatory)
Know the difference between a complete sentence and a sentence fragment
Subject-verb agreement (The children is playing. The children are playing.)
Know the past tense of irregular verbs (go/went; drink/drank)
Know how to use adjectives and adverbs
Identify figurative language (metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, idioms and personification)
Determine word meaning by using context clues while reading a passage
Reading comprehension (read passages and answer questions)
Find the synonyms and antonyms of vocabulary words
Understand the meanings of prefix and suffix in a word
Identify and correct punctuation, capitalization and word usage in a sentence
Know the correct spelling of vocabulary words
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Answer questions about the 3 branches of US government (who, where, what):
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Three levels of government
Know the main organs or parts of the circulatory, skeletal, nervous, digestive, and respiratory system.
Understand the process of digestion
Facts about the country and its landmarks
Know about current and past presidents
Importance of ‘checks and balances’
Understand and be able to define all the following vocabulary words or phrases:
labor union- strike – petroleum – depression – assembly line – boom – skyscrapers – reservations – prospector –
segregation – collective bargaining – share cropping – Rosa Parks – Theodore Roosevelt – Martin Luther King – Supreme
Law of the Land – Constitution Preamble - veto