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Anchor Standards for Reading: Key Ideas and Details: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

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.

Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

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.

Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.