English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 5

ELA21.5.26b

Compare and contrast the approaches to theme in several stories within a genre.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

  • Compare means to tell how something is similar and contrast is to tell how something is different.
  • Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text.
  • Stories within a genre will have similar in forms, styles, or subject matter.

Skills

  • Identify and describe the theme of a story.
  • Identify similarities between themes of texts in the same genre.
  • Identify differences between themes of texts in the same genre.

Understanding

  • Identifying, describing, and analyzing themes of stories within the same genre improves their comprehension of the text and their knowledge of text genres.

Vocabulary

  • Compare
  • Contrast
  • Theme
  • Genre
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