Aligned Standard

ELA.EE.RL.4.2: Identify the theme or central idea of a familiar story, drama or poem.

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned the following California State Standards:

  • RL.4.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; 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

The student can identify major observable events that occur in a familiar story.

Proximal Precursor

The student can correctly identify the consequences of a character's actions in a familiar story and relate an action to its corresponding consequence.

Target

After reading or hearing a familiar story, the student can use story details to correctly identify the specific theme of the story.

Successor

After reading or hearing a story, the student can identify a brief explanation of the theme of the story.