Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RL.5.5
Explain how chapters, scenes, or stanzas provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
5R5
In literary texts, explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to determine the
overall structure of a story, drama, or poem. (RL)
Tennessee Academic Standards:
5.RL.CS.5
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of particular texts.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.3.5.E
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes,or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama,or poem.
5th Grade Reading - Structural Elements Lesson
Story
A story is a made-up passage that shows events that happen to a character or characters. Usually, a story only shows a part of a character’s life. A story has different parts and elements that make up its story structure.
These are the structural elements or parts of a story:
Structure:
A beginning, middle, and an end
A problem or a conflict that the character has to solve
A climax or a turning point in which the problem is most intense
Sentences and paragraphs instead of stanzas
Elements:
Characters that speak through dialogue or who
are described by the narrator
The time and place in which the events happen (setting)
The main idea and the message of the story (theme)
Drama
A drama, or play, is a passage that tells a story using the lines characters say to each other.
These are the elements or parts of a drama:
Cast of characters: a list of characters that appear in a play; appears near the beginning of the play
Stage setting: the description of the time and place of the play and what the characters are doing as the scene begins
Dialogue: the lines that the characters say to each other to move the plot along
Stage directions: the words that appear in parentheses throughout the play and tell the characters how to act
Scene/Act: a small part of a play in which all actions happen in one place and at one time
Poem
A poem is a passage that often uses rhyme and rhythm. Poems are made up of lines. A group of lines is called a stanza.
These are the elements or parts of a poem:
Verses: lines that make up a poem
Stanzas: a group of lines
Rhyme: using words that end in the same sound
Rhythm: the way sound is repeated in a pattern
Meter: the beat of the poem made by repeating a pattern of syllables
5th Grade Reading - Structural Elements Lesson