Kindergarten
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.K.3 | With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. |
Grade 1
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.1.3 | Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. |
Grade 2
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| RL.2.3 | Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. |
Grade 3
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.3.3 | Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. |
Grade 4
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.4.3 | 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). |
Grade 5
Key Ideas and Details
| 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) |
Grade 6
Key Ideas and Details
RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Grade 7
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.7.3 | Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). |
Grade 8
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| RL.8.3 | Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. |
Grade 9 – Grade 10
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.9-10.3 | Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. |
Grade 11 – Grade 12
Key Ideas and Details
| RL.11-12.3 | Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). |