Standards for The Art of Storytelling

Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Key Ideas and Details: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Craft and Structure: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Key Ideas and Details: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.