ELA 5th Grade Literature

Description

• Cite accurate evidence from a literary text to support inferences and to explain the text's explicit meaning

• Determine themes in a story, drama, or poem that are stated directly or indirectly (e.g., revealed by details in the text such as how characters respond to challenges or how a poem's speaker reflects on a topic)

• Compare and contrast key events in the plot of a story or drama (e.g., compare how a character acts when facing similar circumstances)

• Summarize a story, drama, or narrative poem, describing the main characters, details, and key events including conflict and resolution

• Explain how what happens in one chapter or scene of a story or play builds on the events that came before and leads to subsequent events, creating an overall structure

• Determine the meaning of figurative language (e.g., metaphors, similes, exaggeration) used in literary texts

• Describe the narrator's or speaker's point of view in a story and how it affects the information revealed about characters and events (e.g., retell a story from the point of view of different characters)

• Read regularly and independently in fifth-grade-appropriate texts for sustained periods of time, increasing speed, stamina, and comprehension

• Explain the differences between different genres of literature (e.g., short stories, poetry, drama) based on their characteristics and structural elements (e.g., phenomena explained in origin myths; stage directions and acts/scenes in plays)