Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
Kindergarten–Grade 5
Reading: Literature
Grade 2
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.2.9
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
Grade 3
Key Ideas and Details
RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Grade 4
Key Ideas and Details
RL.4.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
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.
Grade 5
Key Ideas and Details
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 the text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.5.9
Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Writing
Grade 3
Text Types and Purposes
W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
- Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
- Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
- Provide a sense of closure.
Grade 4
Text Types and Purposes
W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
- Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
- Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
- Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
- Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Grade 5
Text Types and Purposes
W.5.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
- Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
- Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
- Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events
- precisely.
- Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Ohio English Language Arts Standards (2001)
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
Benchmarks (K–3)
A.
Establish a purpose for reading and use a range of reading comprehension strategies to understand literary passages and text.
D.
Apply reading skills and strategies to summarize and compare and contrast information in text, between text and across subject areas.
Benchmarks (4–7)
A.
Determine a purpose for reading and use a range of reading comprehension strategies to better understand text.
B.
Apply effective reading comprehension strategies, including summarizing and making predictions, and comparisons using information in text, between text and across subject areas.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 3)
3.
Compare and contrast information between texts and across subject areas.
6.
Create and use graphic organizers, such as Venn diagrams and webs, to demonstrate comprehension.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 4)
3.
Compare and contrast information on a single topic or theme across different text and non-text resources.
6.
Select, create and use graphic organizers to interpret textual information.
Reading Applications: Literary Text Standard
Benchmarks (K–3)
A.
Compare and contrast plot across literary works.
C.
Recognize the defining characteristics and features of different types of literary forms and genres.
Benchmarks (4–7)
C.
Identify the elements of plot and establish a connection between an element and a future event.
F.
Identify similarities and differences of various literary forms and genres.
G.
Explain how figurative language expresses ideas and conveys mood.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 3)
1.
Recognize and describe similarities and differences of plot across literary works.
3.
Retell the plot sequence.
4.
Identify and explain the defining characteristics of literary forms and genres, including fairy tales, folk tales, poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 4)
3.
Identify the main incidents of a plot sequence, identifying the major conflict and its resolution.
6.
Identify and explain the defining characteristics of literary forms and genres, including poetry, drama, fables, fantasies, chapter books, fiction and non-fiction.
8.
Identify figurative language in literary works, including idioms, similes and metaphors.
Writing Applications Standard
Benchmarks (3–4)
A.
Write narrative accounts that develop character, setting and plot.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 3)
1.
Write stories that sequence events and include descriptive details and vivid language to develop characters, setting and plot.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 4)
1.
Write narratives that sequence events, including descriptive details and vivid language to develop plot, characters and setting and to establish a point of view.