Arkansas 5th Grade ELA Standards in Reading Literature

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RL.5 Reading Standards for Literature

• Key Ideas and Details
  • RL.5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
  • 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 challenge including how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.
  • 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 (e.g., how characters interact).
• Craft and Structure
  • RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
  • RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
  • RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view and/or perspective influence how events are described.
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
  • RL.5.7 Analyze how multimedia elements (e.g., text, audio, still images, animation, video, or interactive components) contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of that text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
  • RL.5.9 Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
• Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
  • RL.5.10 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.