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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 4

Strand - Reading Literature

Cluster - Craft and Structure

[RL.4.5] - Explain major differences among prose, poetry, and drama, and refer to the structural elements of each (e.g., paragraphs and chapters for prose; stanza and verse for poetry; scene, stage directions, cast of characters for drama) when writing or speaking about a text.

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  • Drama
    Literature in the form of a script intended for performance before an audience; also called theatre or a play when written for the stage. A drama usually presents its story largely through the dialogue and actions of its characters.
  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • Poem/poetry
    Creative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language, often characterized by a rhyme scheme or by rhythm far more regular than that of prose.
  • Prose
    Writing or speaking in the usual or ordinary form, in contrast with poetry or spoken word.
  • Reading Closely to Analyze Complex Texts in the Elementary Grades
  • Structure
    Broadly, anything composed of parts arranged together in some way; in language arts, the relationships or organization of the component parts in a literary text.

Predecessor Standards:

  • RL.3.5
    Identify common structural elements of fiction (e.g., problem, solution); describe how each successive part of a text builds on earlier sections.

Successor Standards:

  • 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.

Same Level Standards:

  • W.4.3.f
    For poems, use patterns of sound (e.g., rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, consonance) and visual patterns (e.g., line length, grouped lines as stanzas or verses) to create works that are distinctly different from prose narratives. (See grade 4 Reading Literature Standard 5.)