5th Grade CCSS: Reading: Literature

For fifth 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, fifth graders will be asked to: explain a text explicitly and accurately, using quotes, understand the theme of a piece of literature, be able to compare and contrast two or more part of a literary text such as characters, setting, or events, understand the use of similes, metaphors and other figurative language in a literary text, describe how narrator’s or character’s point of view is conveyed through the text, analyze the role of multimedia elements like graphics, illustrations or web based media contributes to a literary work, compare works in the same genre, read text appropriate to grade level while increasing in the level of text complexity throughout the year.