Aligned Standard

ELA.EE.RL.6.5: Determine the structure of a text (e.g., story, poem, or drama).

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned the following California State Standards:

  • RL.6.5 - Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

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 concrete details in a familiar story, including characters and objects.

Proximal Precursor

When reading a story with a clear linear structure, the student is able to identify events which take place in the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Target

When presented with a text, the student is able to identify whether the text is a story, poem, or drama based on the structure and characteristics of the text.

Successor

After reading two texts (story, poem, drama), the student can identify similarities between the structures, such as story elements, text features, and organizational patterns.