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Summarizing Literature

5th Grade

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 20

Explain how the author's use of character types throughout a narrative helps drive its plot.
Examples: static, dynamic, and stock characters

Arkansas Academic Standards: RL.5.2

Examine a grade-appropriate literary text.
  • Provide a summary.
  • 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 and how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.

Arizona - K-12 Academic Standards: 5.RL.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details of the text; include how characters in story or drama respond to challenges, how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic, and a summary of the text.

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.RL.5.2

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE5RL2

Ohio's Learning Standards: RL.5.2

Analyze literary text development.
  1. 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.
  2. Summarize the text, incorporating a theme determined from details in the text.

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks: 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 a text. For example, students explore the theme “Heroism demands courage and taking risks” in traditional tales such as The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle and modern novels such as Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.

New Jersey Student Learning Standards: RL.5.2

Determine the key details in a story, drama or poem to identify the theme and to summarize the text.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 5R2

Determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize a text. (RI&RL)

Tennessee Academic Standards: 5.RL.KID.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a story, drama, or poem and explain how it is conveyed through details in the text; summarize the text.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: R.5.2

Summarize texts, from a variety of genres, to determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details. (RI&RL)

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.3.5.a

Determine a theme of a text 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.

Pennsylvania Core Standards:      E05.A-K.1.1.2

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.

5th Grade Reading - Summarizing Literature Lesson
 
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