Central Ideas Or Themes

Common Core Reading Standards for Literature
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

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

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

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

Third Grade
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.

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

Fifth Grade
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.