Deepening Comprehension and Analysis
Deepen comprehension with passages that develop central idea identification, text structure analysis, and cross-text comparison skills.
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- Grade 4: The Rainy-Day Route · Character and plot
- Grade 4: The Lunchroom Investigators · Central idea
- Grade 5: The Empty Space on the Mural · Character and plot
- Grade 5: A Map That Keeps Changing · Central idea
Grade 39 standards
Explain how one or more characters develop throughout the plot in a literary text.
Explain how text features contribute to meaning and identify the text structures of chronology, comparison, and cause/effect in texts.
Identify and explain metaphors, personification, and hyperbole in text(s).
Explain a theme and how it develops, using details, in a literary text.
Identify the central idea and explain how relevant details support that idea in a text.
Explain different characters’ perspectives in a literary text.
Explain the development of an author’s purpose in an informational text.
Identify types of poems: free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick.
Identify an author’s claim and explain how an author uses evidence to support the claim.
Grade 48 standards
Explain how setting, events, conflict, and character development contribute to the plot in a literary text.
Explain how text features contribute to the meaning and identify the text structures of problem/solution, sequence, and description in texts.
Explain a stated or implied theme and how it develops, using details, in a literary text.
Explain how relevant details support the central idea, implied or explicit.
Identify the narrator’s point of view and explain the difference between a narrator’s point of view and character perspective in a literary text.
Explain an author’s perspective toward a topic in an informational text.
Explain how rhyme and structure create meaning in a poem.
Explain an author’s claim and the reasons and evidence used to support the claim.
Grade 59 standards
Analyze how setting, events, conflict, and characterization contribute to the plot in a literary text.
Explain how text structures and/or features contribute to the overall meaning of texts.
Analyze how figurative language contributes to meaning in text(s).
Explain the development of stated or implied theme(s) throughout a literary text.
Explain how relevant details support the central idea(s), implied or explicit.
Describe how an author develops a character’s perspective in a literary text.
Analyze an author’s purpose and/or perspective in an informational text.
Explain how figurative language and other poetic elements work together in a poem.
Track the development of an argument, identifying the specific claim(s), evidence, and reasoning.