Unwrapped Standards: RL.3.5 - Refer to Parts of Stories, Dramas, and Poems When Writing

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CollegeandCareer Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standard / Standard: RL.3.5-Refer to parts ofstories, dramas, and poems whenwritingor speakingabout a text, usingterms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describehow each successivepart builds on earliersections.
R.CCR.5 Analyzethe structureof texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of thetext (e.g.,a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relateto each other and the whole. / Questions to FocusLearning
Howdoes the structureof atext influencethe reader?
Proficient readers usestructureto enhancetheirunderstandingof theideasand events expressed inthe text.
Student FriendlyObjectives
KnowledgeTargets
Iknow stories areorganized into sections or chapters. Iknow dramasareorganized into scenes.
Iknow poems areorganized into verses andstanzas.
Reasoning Targets
I can explain how parts of atext areorganized to connect events and ideas.
I can useparts ofatext to locate specificinformation when writingor speakingabout a text.
Vocabularychapter
drama paragraph poem scene stanza verse
Teacher Tips

Characteristics of Poetry–In this lesson forstudents in grades 3-5, students discuss the characteristics of poetrythat makeitdifferent from prose and focus in on howpoets uselinebreaks toaffect thesound,appearance, and meaningof poems. Students can usean interactivetool calledLineBreak Explorer tomove thewords of thepoem around and manipulatelinebreaks tolearn more. Suggested poetrybooks and print outs of poems arealso provided in this lesson. (Source: Read Write Think,International Reading Association, NCTE)

ConnectingParts ofNarrativeText-TheInstituteof Education Sciences (IES) practiceguide,Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten through Third Grade. Recommendation 2(“Teach students to identifyand usethe text’s organizational structureto comprehend, learn, and remember content”) discusses the importanceof teaching students how to identifyand connect theparts ofnarrativetexts. Elementsof structurein a narrativetext are included, alongwith descriptions and examples.

NarrativeText Structure-Classroom materials that maybeused for independent student center activities to support narrativetext structures and elements. (Source:Florida Center for Reading Research)

Vertical Progression

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

RL.1.5 -Explain majordifferences between booksthat tell stories andbooks that give information,drawingon awide readingofa rangeof text types.

RL.2.5 -Describethe overallstructureof astory,includingdescribinghowthe beginningintroducesthe storyand the ending concludes theaction.

RL.4.5 -Explain majordifferences between poems, drama, and prose, andrefer to thestructural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., castsof characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stagedirections) when writingor speakingabout a text.

RL.5.5 -Explain how aseries of chapters, scenes,orstanzas fits together to provide theoverallstructureof aparticular story, drama, orpoem.

RL.6.5 -Analyzehow aparticular sentence,chapter, scene, or stanza fits into theoverallstructureofatext and contributes to thedevelopmentofthe theme, setting, or plot.

RL.7.5 -Analyzehow adrama's or poem'sform or structure(e.g., soliloquy,sonnet)contributes to its meaning. RL.8.5 -Compare and contrast thestructureof two or moretexts and analyzehow thedifferingstructureofeach text contributes to its meaningand style.

RL.9-10.5 -Analyzehow an author's choices concerninghow to structureatext, order events within it(e.g., parallel plots), and manipulatetime (e.g., pacing,flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, orsurprise.

RL.11-12.5 -Analyzehow an author's choices concerninghow to structurespecific parts ofatext (e.g., thechoiceof whereto begin or end astory, thechoiceto providea comedicor tragicresolution) contributeto itsoverallstructureand meaning as wellas its aestheticimpact.

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