Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 62.1 2.RL.2.1.a.1

Choose, find, or label the

3.RL.2.1.a.1 +

Answer questions to

story elements (e.g., who demonstrate

was the story about; understanding of a text,

where did the story referring explicitly to the

happen) to demonstrate text as the basis for the

understanding of answers.

character, setting, and

plot in a text.

2.2 2.RL.2.2.a.1

Choose, find, or label the

3.RL.2.2.a.1

Retell folktales, fables,

4.RL.2.2.a.1 +

Paraphrase or retell the main

6.RL.2.2.a.1 +

Determine how a theme or

beginning, middle, and and tall tales from diverse events in story, myth, legend, central idea of a work of

ending of stories, cultures. or novel. literature is conveyed

including fables and through particular details.

folktales from diverse

cultures.

2.RL.2.2.a.2 3.RL.2.2.a.2 4.RL.2.2.a.2 6.RL.2.2.a.2 +Identify the main idea, Identify a theme in a Identify the theme. Provide a detailed, objective

lesson, or moral. folktale, fable, and tall tale. summary of the text.

4.RL.2.2.a.3

Provide evidence for the

interpretation of the theme.

6.RL.2.3.a.1

Explain how a plot unfolds in a

series of episodes.

2.RL.2.3.a.2

Identify the events in a story.

3.RL.2.3.a.2

Explain how characters' actions

contribute to the plot.

4.RL.2.3.a.2

Explain how a character,

setting, or event impacts the plot.

3.1 2.RL.3.1.a.1

Identify the beginning,

3.RL.3.1.a.1

Use terms such as

4.RL.3.1.a.1

Explain major differences

5.RL.3.1.a.1

Explain how a series of

6.RL.3.1.a.1

Analyze how a particular

middle, and ending of chapter, scene, and stanza between poems, plays, and chapters, scenes, or stanzas sentence, chapter, scene, or

stories. to refer to the parts of prose. fit together to provide the stanza fits into the overall

stories, plays, and poems. overall structure of a structure of a work of

3.RL.3.1.a.2

Describe how each successive

part of a story, play, or poem

builds on earlier sections.

4.RL.3.1.a.2

Refer to the structural elements

of poems or drama.

3.2 2.RL.3.2.a.1

Identify dialogue as words

3.RL.3.2.a.1

Identify narrator or

4.RL.3.2.a.1

Compare and contrast the

5.RL.3.2.a.1

Describe how a narrator's or

6.RL.3.2.a.1

Explain how the narrator orspoken by characters, character's point of view. point of view from which speaker's point of view speaker impacts the mood,

usually enclosed in different stories are narrated. influences how events are tone, and meaning of a text.

quotation marks. portrayed.

2.RL.3.2.a.2 3.RL.3.2.a.2 6.RL.3.2.a.2

Identify the difference Distinguish their own Explain how an authorbetween communication point of view from that of develops the point of view

between characters and the narrator or those of of the narrator or speaker in

communication to self. the characters. a text.

4.1 2.RL.4.1.a.1

Identify the character(s)

5.RL.4.1.a.1

Describe how visual and

from the illustrations and multimedia elements

words in a print or digital contribute to the meaning or

text. tone of a text (e.g., graphic

novel, multimedia

2.RL.4.1.a.2 presentation of fiction,

Identify the setting(s) folktale, myth, poem).

from the illustrations and

words in a print or digital

text.

4.2 2.RL.4.2.a.1

Compare and contrast the

3.RL.4.2.a.1

Compare and contrast

4.RL.4.2.a.1

Compare the treatment of

5.RL.4.2.a.1

Compare and contrast stories

6.RL.4.2.a.1

Compare and contrast works

characters in versions of two stories written by the similar themes and topics in in the same genre on their of literature in different

the same stories from same author about the stories, myths, and traditional approaches to similar themes forms or genres (e.g., stories

different authors, time same or similar literature from different and topics. and poems; historical novels

periods, or cultures from characters. cultures. and fantasy stories) in terms

around the world. of their approaches to

2.RL.4.2.a.2

Compare and contrast the

setting(s) in versions of the

same stories from different

authors, time periods, or

cultures from

around the world.

similar themes and topics.

Additional

attributes given in a

story.

K.RL.4.2.a.1

With support, choose or

1.RL.4.2.a.1

Choose or match

match characters to characters to their

+ Critical Important

their event within a event within a story.

story.

K.RL.4.1.a.1

With support, identify

1.RL.4.1.a.1

Identify detail(s) of a

the character of a story character based on the

in relation to the illustrations or

illustrations in a story. attributes given in a

story.

K.RL.4.1.a.2 1.RL.4.1.a.2

With support, identify Identify the setting

the setting of a story in based on the

relation to the illustrations or

illustrations in a story.

text.

K.RL.3.2.a.2

With support, identifythe illustrator of a story

in telling the story.

particular text. literature and contributes to

the development of the theme,

characterization, setting, or

plot.

K.RL.3.2.a.1

With support, identify

1.RL.3.2.a.1

With support, identifythe role of the author. who is telling the story

at various points in a

K.RL.3.1.a.1

Recognize the genre of

1.RL.3.1.a.1

Identify the genre of a

a given text (e.g., fairy given text (e.g., fairy

tales, nursery rhymes, tales, nursery rhymes,

storybooks). storybooks).

2.3 K.RL.2.3.a.1

Choose character(s) and

setting of the story.

1.RL.2.3.a.1

Identify the characters in

a story.

2.RL.2.3.a.1

Identify the characters in a

story.

3.RL.2.3.a.1 +

Describe characters in a story

(e.g., their traits, motivations or

feelings).

4.RL.2.3.a.1 +

Describe a character, setting, or

event in a story or play, drawing

on specific details in the text.

5.RL.2.3.a.1 +

Describe characters, settings,

events within a story; provide or

identify specific details in the text

to support the description.6.RL.2.3.a.2

Explain how the characters

respond or change as the

narrative advances and moves

toward a resolution.

1.RL.2.3.a.2

Identify the setting of the

story.

1.RL.2.2.a.2 5.RL.2.2.a.2

Determine the theme of a story,

drama, or poem including how

characters in a story or drama

respond to challenges or how the

speaker in a poem reflects

upon a topic.

Retell the central

message or lesson.

K.RL.2.2.a.1

Retell with support

1.RL.2.2.a.1

Choose, find, or label

5.RL.2.2.a.1 +

Summarize the text.

familiar stories, poems, the beginning, middle,

or nursery rhymes. and ending of stories,

including fables and

fairy tales.

story happen) to about; where did the 4.RL.2.1.a.2

Refer to details and examples in a

text when drawing basic

inferences from a work of

literature.

5.RL.2.1.a.2

Refer to specific text evidence to

support inferences.

6.RL.2.1.a.2 +

Use specific details from the

text to support inferences.

demonstrate story happen) to

understanding of demonstrate

character, setting, and understanding of

plot in a text, with character, setting, and

support. plot in a text, with

support.

Kindergarten Grade 1K.RL.2.1.a.1

Find story elements

1.RL.2.1.a.1

Choose, find, or label

4.RL.2.1.a.1 +

Refer to details and examples in a

text when explaining

what the text says explicitly.

5.RL.2.1.a.1 +

Refer to details and examples in a

text when explaining

what the text says explicitly.

6.RL.2.1.a.1 +

Use specific details in a text to

explain what a text says

explicitly.(e.g., who was the story the story elements (e.g.,

about; where did the who was the story

English Language Arts:K-6 Literature