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English Language Arts
- Standard Area - CC.1.3: Reading Literature: Students read and respond to works of literature - with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Grade Level - CC.1.3.5: GRADE 5
Determine a theme of a text from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
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Anchor Descriptor - E05.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences and/or making generalizations from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1b Answer an inferential question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1c Identify details from the text to support answers to literal and inferential questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the theme/central message of a story, drama, or poem using key details/evidence from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2b Summarize the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2c Identify specific details in the text to compare two characters, settings, or events.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story, drama, or poem, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.3a Identify how characters’ actions contribute to the story.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Cite textual evidence by quoting accurately from the text to explain what the text says explicitly and make inferences.
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Anchor Descriptor - E05.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences and/or making generalizations from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1b Answer an inferential question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1c Identify details from the text to support answers to literal and inferential questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the theme/central message of a story, drama, or poem using key details/evidence from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2b Summarize the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2c Identify specific details in the text to compare two characters, settings, or events.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story, drama, or poem, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.3a Identify how characters’ actions contribute to the story.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
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Anchor Descriptor - E05.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences and/or making generalizations from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1b Answer an inferential question about a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.1c Identify details from the text to support answers to literal and inferential questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the theme/central message of a story, drama, or poem using key details/evidence from the text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards. -
Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2b Summarize the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.2c Identify specific details in the text to compare two characters, settings, or events.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story, drama, or poem, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-K.1.1.3a Identify how characters’ actions contribute to the story.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
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Anchor Descriptor - E05.A-C.2.1 Demonstrate understanding of craft and structure in literature.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-C.2.1.1 Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described; describe an author’s purpose and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-C.2.1.1a Identify the narrator’s point-of-view.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-C.2.1.1b Describe the author’s purpose (entertain, inform, or persuade) in a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Explain how a series of chapters, scenes or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade-level text, including interpretation of figurative language.
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Anchor Descriptor - E05.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a. Interpret figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification) in context. b. Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs. c. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the meaning of figurative language in context.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
Compare and contrast texts in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics as well as additional literary elements.
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Anchor Descriptor - E05.A-C.3.1 Demonstrate understanding of connections within, between, and/or among texts.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-C.3.1.1 Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics. Note: “Stories” means narration of events told through the text types of stories, dramas, or poems.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-C.3.1.1a Identify similarities or differences in two texts in the same genre.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools
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Anchor Descriptor - E05.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a. Interpret figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification) in context. b. Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs. c. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the meaning of figurative language in context.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships.
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Anchor Descriptor - E05.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a. Interpret figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification) in context. b. Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs. c. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the meaning of figurative language in context.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E05.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Read and comprehend literary fiction on grade-level, reading independently and proficiently.