Common Core Standards

Grade 5

Reading RL.5.5

Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

Here is when the structure of the three main types of writing is introduced. Stories have beginnings, middles, and ends, while dramas have scenes and acts, while poems have stanzas and rhyme schemes. By the end of fifth grade, students should have this concept down pat; in sixth grade, they should be able to look at a specific section of a text and say what part of a work's structure it is.