Common Core Standards
Grade 5
Reading 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.
Here is when the structure of the three main types of writing is introduced. Stories have beginnings, middles, and ends, while dramas have scenes and acts, while poems have stanzas and rhyme schemes. By the end of fifth grade, students should have this concept down pat; in sixth grade, they should be able to look at a specific section of a text and say what part of a work's structure it is.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching Charlotte's Web: With a Little Help from Our Friends
- Teaching Seedfolks: Something to Talk About
- Teaching The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Picture's Worth 200 Words
- Teaching Seedfolks: Hi. Where Are You From?
- Teaching Seedfolks: How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Teaching The Borrowers: If I Could Turn Back Time: A Pre-reading Vocabulary Activity
- Teaching The Secret Garden: A Game Is Happening in the Garden
- Teaching The Borrowers: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
- Teaching Esperanza Rising: Significance Cereals
- Teaching Charlotte's Web: Itsy-Bitsy Spider(s)
- Teaching The Borrowers: Keeping Up With the Korrowers