Aligned Standard

ELA.EE.RI.5.2: Identify the main idea of a text when it is not explicitly stated.

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned the following California State Standards:

  • RI.5.2 - Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

Linkage Level Descriptions

Initial Precursor

When presented with familiar and unfamiliar representations of people, objects, places, and events, the student can correctly identify the familiar representations.

Distal Precursor

When provided with illustrations that are related and unrelated to a familiar text, the student can identify the illustrations that relate to aspects of the familiar text, such as people, places, things, and ideas.

Proximal Precursor

After hearing or reading a beginner-level informational text, the student can identify a concrete detail in the text.

Target

After reading an informational text, the student is able to infer the main idea through total context of the text.

Successor

After reading a paragraph of an informational text, the student can determine which details are key to supporting the paragraph's main idea.