Kindergarten
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.K.2 | With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. |
Grade 1
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.1.2 | Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. |
Grade 2
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.2.2 | Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. |
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. |
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. |
Grade 6
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.6.2 | Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. |
Grade 7
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.7.2 | Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. |
Grade 8
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.8.2 | Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. |
Grade 9 – Grade 10
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.9-10.2 | Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. |
Grade 11 – Grade 12
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.11-12.2 | Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. |