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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 5
Strand - Reading Literature
Cluster - 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.
- 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. - Reading Closely to Analyze Complex Texts in the Elementary Grades
- Stanza
In a poem, recurring grouping of two or more verse lines of the same length, metrical form, and, often, rhyme scheme - 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.
[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.
[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.