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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 5

Strand - Reading Literature

Cluster - Key Ideas and Details

[RL.5.2] - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

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  • Character
    Person who takes part in the action of a story or drama; may also be an animal or imaginary creature, especially in fables and early emergent reader texts.
  • Drama
    Literature in the form of a script intended for performance before an audience; also called theatre or a play when written for the stage. A drama usually presents its story largely through the dialogue and actions of its characters.
  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • Poem/poetry
    Creative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language, often characterized by a rhyme scheme or by rhythm far more regular than that of prose.
  • Reflection
    Serious thought such as contemplation or deliberation.
  • Speaker
    (1) Person or character producing oral language, as in a speech or a dialogue; (2) in poetry, the narrator or voice a poet uses to relay a poem.
  • Summary
    An account of a text’s main points, disregarding unimportant details and usually employing the same order of events or topics as the source text. Summarizing is a basic reading technique that consolidates and demonstrates understanding of a text’s overall meaning. See Synthesis.
  • Theme
    Central message or abstract concept made concrete through representation in a literary text. Like a thesis, a theme implies a subject and predicate of some kind: for instance, not just vice as a standalone word, but a proposition such as Vice seems more interesting than virtue but turns out to be destructive. Sometimes a theme is directly stated in a work, and sometimes it is revealed indirectly. A single work may have more than one theme. See Main idea, Moral.

Predecessor Standards:

  • RL.4.2
    Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.

Successor Standards:

  • RL.6.2
    Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Same Level Standards:

  • RL.5.8
    (Not applicable. For expectations regarding central messages or lessons in stories, See Reading Literature Standard 2.)