Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Fifth grade asks students to simply identify a theme through general examples; sixth grade asks them to identify a theme and back that theme up with a few quotes. However, they aren't required to use lots of quotes from throughout a text, as that's the job of seventh graders. The second part of the standard is pretty self-explanatory, since it asks students to objectively summarize a work.