How Well Do You Know ELA Standards?

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.

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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.

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Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).

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Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.

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Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.

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Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

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Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text

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Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

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Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

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Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text

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