Grade 6 Language Arts Standards
English Language Arts
Reading - Literature
Reading – Informational Text
Writing
Language
English Language Arts
Reading - Literature
- Cite evidence to analyze what the text says explicitly and what it infers
- Determine a theme or central idea; summarize without opinions/judgments
- Describe how a story’s plot unfolds as it moves towards resolution
- Determine figurative and connotative meanings of words; analyze tone
- Analyze how a section of a text develops the theme, setting, or plot
- Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker
- Compare reading a story to viewing a video or live version
- Compare texts in different forms or genres
- Read and comprehend literature with scaffolding as needed
Reading – Informational Text
- Cite evidence to analyze what the text says explicitly and what it infers
- Determine central idea and how it is conveyed through details; summarize
- Analyze how a key idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated
- Determine figurative, connotative, and technical meanings of words and
- phrases
- Analyze how a section of text contributes to the development of the ideas
- Determine an author’s point of view or purpose and explain how it is conveyed
- Integrate information from different media to understand a topic or issue
- Evaluate claims in a text, distinguish supported and unsupported claims
- Compare one author’s presentation of events with that of another
- Read and comprehend nonfiction with scaffolding as needed
Writing
- Write arguments with relevant evidence
- Introduce claim(s) and organize evidence clearly
- Support claims using credible sources and demonstrate understanding of topic
- Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claims
- Establish and maintain a formal style
- Provide a concluding statement that follows the argument presented
- Write informative/explanatory texts
- Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information
- Develop topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, or other information
- Use appropriate transitions
- Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary about the topic
- Use a formal style
- Provide a concluding statement or section
- Write narratives using effective technique, details, and event sequences
- Engage reader by establishing a context; organize events naturally/logically
- Use narrative techniques, like dialogue, pacing, and description
- Use a variety of transitions for sequence and signal time/setting changes
- Use precise words and phrases, details, and sensory language
- Provide a conclusion
- Produce coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
- Develop writing by planning, revising, editing, or a trying new approach
- Use technology to produce and publish writing as well as to collaborate
- Conduct short research projects, drawing on several sources
- Gather information from multiple sources; assess credibility of sources
- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts
- Write routinely over extended time frames or a range of purposes
- Speaking & Listening
- Pose and respond to questions, contribute to the discussion
- Understand multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing
- Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats
- Distinguish between a speaker’s supported/not supported arguments
- Present claims and findings
- Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks
Language
- Demonstrate command of English grammar when writing or speaking
- Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case
- Use intensive pronouns
- Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
- Correct vague pronouns
- Recognize variations from standard English in writing and speaking
- Demonstrate capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
- Use punctuation to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements
- Spell correctly
- Use language conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening
- Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style
- Maintain consistency in style and tone
- Determine meanings of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases
- Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
- Use common Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to meanings of words
- Use reference materials to find word pronunciation, meaning, and part of
- speech
- Verify preliminary determination of meanings of words or phrases
- Understand figurative language, word relationships, and nuances
- Interpret figures of speech
- Use relationships between words to better understand each word