Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.

In third grade, students should have learned about the structures of poems, plays, and prose; fourth graders are now asked to extend on this knowledge by explicitly laying out the difference between each type of text. With the parts of a story hashed out for students in second and third grade, fourth grade also introduces students to the specific parts of a poem or a play.