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demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales;

retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;

explain the use of sound devices and figurative language and distinguish between the poet and the speaker in poems across a variety of poetic forms;

interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;

explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;

respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate; and

discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.

the central idea with supporting evidence;

features such as insets, timelines, and sidebars to support understanding; and

infer multiple themes within a text using text evidence;

organizational patterns such as logical order and order of importance;

analyze the relationships of and conflicts among the characters;

analyze plot elements, including rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution; and

identifying the claim;

analyze the influence of the setting, including historical and cultural settings, on the plot.

explaining how the author has used facts for or against an argument; and

identifying the intended audience or reader; and

demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales;

recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

explain the use of sound devices and figurative language and distinguish between the poet and the speaker in poems across a variety of poetic forms;

explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;

explain the author's purpose and message within a text;

analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

the central idea with supporting evidence;

analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

features such as insets, timelines, and sidebars to support understanding; and

describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices achieves specific purposes;

organizational patterns such as logical order and order of importance;

identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;

examine how the author's use of language contributes to voice; and

identifying the claim;

explain the purpose of hyperbole, stereotyping, and anecdote.

explaining how the author has used facts for or against an argument; and

identifying the intended audience or reader; and

plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;

recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, and a conclusion; and

explain the author's purpose and message within a text;

developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details;

analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;

analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices achieves specific purposes;

complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;

identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;

past tense of irregular verbs;

examine how the author's use of language contributes to voice; and

collective nouns;

explain the purpose of hyperbole, stereotyping, and anecdote.

adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;

conjunctive adverbs;

plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;

prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;