LAFS.4.RL.3.9Archived Standard

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Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade: 4
Strand: Reading Standards for Literature
Idea: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10
Content Complexity Rating: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
Assessed: Yes
Test Item Specifications
  • Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , EBSR , MS , ST , MC item(s)

  • Assessment Limits :
    Items may ask the student to compare and/or contrast similar themes, topics, and patterns of events from two or more texts. Items may require the student to use key details from the texts to illustrate these similarities and differences. The themes may be explicitly or implicitly stated. Items should not ask about a singular literary text and should be used with text sets.
  • Text Types :
    The items assessing this standard may be used with two or more grade-appropriate literary texts that are stories, poems, myths, or traditional literature, including those from different cultures. Texts may vary in complexity.
  • Response Mechanisms :
    The Enhanced Item Descriptions section on page 3 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice item type). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below.
  • Task Demand and Sample Response Mechanisms :

    Task Demand

    Compare and/or contrast how similar themes, topics, and patterns of events are treated in two or more texts from different cultures.

    Sample Response Mechanisms

    Selectable Text

    • Requires the student to select words and phrases that show similarities and differences in the treatment of topics, patterns of events, and themes. 
    EBSR
    • Requires the student to select a theme, topic, or pattern of events found in two or more texts and to select words and phrases from the text that show how the authors treat the theme, topic, or pattern of events. 
    Multiple Choice
    • Requires the student to select a description of similarities or differences in the treatment of the same theme, topic, or pattern of events in two or more texts.
    Multiselect 
    • Requires the student to select multiple similarities or differences in the treatment of the same theme, topic, or pattern of events in two or more texts. 
    Table Match
    • Requires the student to complete a table that compares and contrasts the treatment of similar themes, topics, or patterns of events in two or more texts.

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010010: English for Speakers of Other Languages-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022 (course terminated))
5010020: Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010045: Language Arts - Grade Four (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
7710015: Access Language Arts - Grade 4 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5011040: Library Skills/Information Literacy 4 (Specifically in versions: 2016 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))

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Lesson Plans

If Animals Could Talk: Writing Fables:

In this lesson, students will analyze and discuss the characteristics and story lines of two different fables, "The Owl and The Grasshopper" and "The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse," and then write a fable of their own.

Type: Lesson Plan

Identifying Themes Across Cultures: Lesson on Theme:

In this lesson, students will learn to determine the universal theme of a story. They will first identify the problem and solution of a story and use that information to determine the theme or author's message, and from there, they will determine the universal theme. Finally, they will compare and contrast the text with another story with a similar theme. This lesson uses the texts Indian Children's Favorite Stories retold by Rosemarie Somaiah and Filipino Children's Favorite Stories retold by Liana Romulo.

Type: Lesson Plan

Cinderella, Cinderella:

This lesson will help students review the story elements of fairy tales, using the original version of Cinderella. In subsequent lessons they will be using this information to compare and contrast different multicultural versions of Cinderella.

Type: Lesson Plan

Student Center Activities

Comprehension: Side-by-Side Stories:

In this activity, students will identify similarities and differences between stories and record them on a graphic organizer.

Type: Student Center Activity

Comprehension: Story Element Ease:

In this activity, students will identify and sort story elements (character, setting, problem, solution, theme, plot). They will then compare and contrast the elements of different stories.

Type: Student Center Activity

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