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Characters

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 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

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.

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)

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.

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)

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 21

Compare and contrast characters, points of view, or events in two or more literary texts.

Arizona Academic Standards: 5.RL.3

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.RL.5.3

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE5RL3

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: RL.5.3

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 5R3

In literary texts, compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, and events, drawing on specific details in the text. (RL)
In informational texts, explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts based on specific evidence from the text. (RI)

Tennessee Academic Standards: 5.RL.KID.3

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in a text.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: R.5.3

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, and events, drawing on specific details in the text. (RL)
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts based on specific evidence from the text. (RI)

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.3.5.C

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings,or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.

Pennsylvania Core Standards:      E05.A-K.1.1.3

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story, drama, or poem, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.5.R.1.1

Analyze how setting, events, conflict, and characterization contribute to the plot in a literary text.

Arkansas Academic Standards: 5.RC.7.RL

Describe how a character’s traits, motivations, and feelings contribute to the sequence of events.

5th Grade Reading - Characters Lesson
 
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