Reading Standards for Literature 5.RL

5.RL.1

Key Ideas and Details
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
I can:

• Show an understanding before reading, while reading, and after reading a text in order to figure out and explain the main ideas (both explicitly stated as well as inferred) of a text
• Summarize a text
• Understand and explain what is directly stated in a text by citing specific details and examples from the text
• Synthesize information and ideas after reading a text
• Make predictions about a text and confirm or refute predictions
• Connect prior knowledge to a text
• Defend a selection of textual evidence when responding to questions about a text
• Understand when to paraphrase a text versus directly quoting a text when responding to questions about the text
• Use quotations from the text in their writing

5.RL.2

Key Ideas and Details
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.
I can:

• Summarize a text both orally and in writing
• Understand the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing a text
• Include key events from the beginning, middle, and end of a text when summarizing both orally and in writing
• Understand the character conflict(s) in a text
• Understand how the characters respond to a conflict(s) in a text
• Understand and explain details about the characters in a text in order to infer a theme
• Know and explain the parts of a plot including rising action, climax, and falling action
• Understand and explain the plot in a text in order to infer a theme
• Understand the key details and events in a text and/or poem as they relate to the speaker’s point of view about a topic in the text and/or poem
• Connect and understand how an author uses specific details to convey a theme in a text and/or poem

5.RL.3
Key Ideas and Details
Compare and contrast two or more character, settings, events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
I can:

• Understand and explain similarities amongst characters and their specific traits
• Understand and explain similarities in characters’ traits affect the plot of a text
• Understand and explain differences amongst characters and their specific traits
• Understand and explain how differences in characters’ traits affect the plot of a text
• Understand and explain similarities amongst different settings in a text
• Understand and explain how similarities amongst settings affect the mood of the plot in a text
• Understand and explain differences amongst different settings in a text
• Understand and explain how differences amongst settings affect the mood of the plot in a text
• Understand and explain similarities and differences amongst different events in a text
• Understand and explain how different events in a text affect characters, mood, and plot
• Identify elements of characterization that an author uses.  (Ex the character always wears dark clothes; can the author be hinting that he is the bad guy?

5.RL.4
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
I can:

• Tell the difference between literal and figurative language
• Think about eh ways in which a text would be different if used literal language instead figurative language
• Understand and explain how word choice affects the meaning of a text
• Use context clues, reference material, knowledge of roots, and prefixes, etc. to determine meaning of unknown words or phrases
• Examine the word choices an author uses to determine the effect they are trying to portray to the reader
• Examine the types of figurative language and imagery an author uses to determine the effect they are trying to portray to the reader

5.RL.5
Craft and Structure
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
I can:

• Read a wide variety of texts in order to differentiate between the various text features
• Notice structural elements in a text
• Learn the terms associated with structure such as “scene” and “stanza.”
• Understand and explain the relationship among structural elements in a text (Ex. flashbacks, foreshadowing, etc.)

5.RL.6
Craft and Structure
Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
I can:

• Understand the differences in narrative voice (first person, third person, narrator, etc)
• Understand the difference between narrative point of view and point of view as in one’s biases or opinion on a situation (often referred to as perspective)
• Compare texts told from different points of view
• Understand the usage of words to determine the point of view of a text
• Understand and explain the effect of the narrator’s or speaker’s point of view on other elements of the text like characters, events, etc

5.RL.7
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text.

I can:

• Watch movies based on an original text or read the original text from which a movie was based and note the differences in the versions  students should also be able to think about why those changes might have been necessary
• Recognize the different forms of gathering information (written words, pictures, listening audio, etc.)
• Think about how and when illustrations are helpful in a text
• Consider the ways that multimedia components (animation, sound effects, music, etc.) enhance a presentation
• Understand and explain the difference between tone and mood

5.RL.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Compare and contrast stories in the same genre(ex-mysteries, and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Mysteries/adventure, poetry/song, autobiography/biography, realistic fiction/historical fiction, science fiction/fantasy.

I can:

• Understand the differences between genres and subgenres of a text (mystery, adventure, biography, science fiction, etc.)
• Use strategies to identify the theme in order to compare the themes of different texts
• Use knowledge of setting, plot, characterization, and other elements of a story in order to compare different stories of the same genre

5.RL.10
Range of Reading and Complexity of Text
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
I can:

• Practice attentive reading of both assigned texts and independent text choices
• Read a wide variety of texts
• Self-monitor and self-correct when reading a text
• Select specific texts that allow them to be challenged as a reader