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**MA Common Core English Language Arts Standards Grade 4**
[|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.1] Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.2] Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.7] Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.9] 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. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.9a] Apply //grade 4 Reading standards// to literature (e.g., “Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions].”). [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.2] Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.4] Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.