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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 5

Strand - Reading Literature

Cluster - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

[RL.5.9] - Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries or adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

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  • Genre
    Category of text defined by criteria related to structure and style. Examples of literary genres are the essay, novel, and drama. Visual art, film, music, and other disciplines also define various genres.
  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • 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.4.9
    Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

Successor Standards:

  • RL.6.9
    Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Same Level Standards:

  • W.5.3.f
    For prose narratives, draw on characteristics of traditional or modern genres (e.g., tall tales, myths, mysteries, fantasies, historical fiction) from diverse cultures as models for writing. (See grade 5 Reading Literature Standard 9.)