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.

As opposed to fourth graders who only have to identify a theme and then provide a general reason why it's there, fifth graders have to be able to point to more specific plot points or explicit scenes of reflection when they identify a theme. The second half of this standard means students have to be able to summarize what they read, though it doesn't need need to be completely objectively (that's only required from sixth graders and above).