Grade 05 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.5.E
Grade 05 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.5.E
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
5th Grade
Course, Subject
English Language Arts
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Recognize chapters, scenes, and stanzas in a story, drama, or poem.
- Describe the overall structure of a story, drama, or poem and how structures are used to create a beginning, middle, and end.
- Explain how the components of stories, drama and poems play a role in the overall structure of the text.
- Describe the effect created by an author's use of a particular structure.
- Analyze how a story, drama, or poem’s structure contributes to its meaning.
- Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student identifies chapters, scenes, and stanzas in stories, dramas, and poetry. Chapters, scenes, and stanzas are the intentional, physical breaks that an author adds to a text. These may be identified by numbers, titles, or physical space.
- After identifying chapters, scenes, and stanzas, the student is able to describe the overall structure of a story and how these structures are used to create a beginning, middle, and end. Student considers where breaks in the text are made and what is included in each section.
- Student explains how the components of stories, drama, and poems play a role in the overall structure of the text. While other elements such as characters, setting, plot, etc. are important in a text, the use of chapters, scenes, and stanzas also plays a role.
- Student considers and describes the effect created by an author's use of a particular structure. The structure might add mystery, suspense, clarification, drama or some other effect.
- Student considers and analyzes how a story, drama, or poem’s structure contributes to its meaning. The structure might make the text more vague or specific, or it might work to help the author entertain, persuade, or inform.
- Student compares and contrasts the use of chapters, scenes, and stanzas in two or more texts and analyzes how the differing structures of each text contributes to its meaning and style. By investigating several texts, the student starts to consider the ways that chapters, scenes, and stanzas can provide structure to stories, drama and poems. This aids in making judgments and drawing conclusions about a single text.
