5th Grade

Math

Students in 5th Grade take a math screener in the Fall to assess student math skills and guide teachers in grouping students for instruction and helping struggling students. A winter and spring screener may also be given to assess growth.

Students in 5th Grade take the Colorado Measure of Academic Success (CMAS) Math test in the spring.

Students in 5th Grade take a middle school math transition test.

English Language Arts

Students in 5th Grade do fall, winter, and spring reading assessments to determine student reading levels and chart progress. The assessments are also used to group students to provide targeted instruction based on student need.

Students in 5th Grade take the Colorado Measure of Academic Success (CMAS) ELA test in the spring.

Adopted 2024

Core Material

• Quaver ED 

Supplemental Materials

• American Girl: The Care and Keeping of You 1: The Body Book for Younger Girls, 2013  (5th Grade)
• American Girl: The Care and Keeping of You 2: The Body Book for Older Girls, 2013 (5th Grade)
• Human Body Theater by Wicks (5th Grade) 
• Sex is a Funny Word by Silverberg & Smyth (5th Grade)

Preschool Classrooms: Early Math Resources from the Marisco Institute.

Adopted 2025

Core Material:

• Imagine Learning - Illustrative Math
• IXL
• Math Expressions In at 9 schools until Fall 2026
• HMH Into Math 6-8

Supplemental Materials

• Quaver Ed Health & PE

Adopted Materials 2022

Core:

• PK/K: Accelerate Learning - STEMScopes Early Explorer
• Grades 1-5: FOSS Next Generation

Supplemental Materials

• Brainpop
• Gale
• Newsela

Supplemental Materials: 

Gale In Context

BrainPop Jr

BrainPop

Newsela