Reading Literature Standard 4 (Craft & Structure)

Kindergarten
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

First Grade
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Music 

• (My Many Colored Days)

Second Grade
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Third Grade
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.

Fourth Grade
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).

Fifth Grade
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

Sixth Grade
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

Learn a song by rote; answer questions about select words.