4th Grade CCSS: Reading: Literature

For fourth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a fictional text. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, fourth graders will be asked to: reference back to details and examples in a text to explain the text and draw inferences, understand the theme of literature from text details, be able to describe character, story, setting, in literature, understand word meaning, including words from mythology, understand the components that make up different types of literature, in poems recognize rhythm, verse, meter, in drama stage directions and dialogue, compare and contrast the stories in myths and traditional literature of different cultures, understand the difference between first- and third-person narratives, read text appropriate to grade level while increasing in the level of text complexity throughout the year.