Grades K-12: Reading Standards for Literature – #5

Kindergarten

Craft and Structure

RL.K.5 Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

Grade 1

Craft and Structure

RL.1.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

Grade 2

Craft and Structure

RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Grade 3

Craft and Structure

RL.3.5 Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.

Grade 4

Craft and Structure

RL.4.5 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.

Grade 5

Craft and Structure

RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

Grade 6

Craft and Structure

RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Grade 7

Craft and Structure

RL.7.5 Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.

Grade 8

Craft and Structure

RL.8.5 Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.

Grade 9 – Grade 10

Craft and Structure

RL.9-10.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

Grade 11 – Grade 12

Craft and Structure

RL.11-12.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.