Common Core State Standard: RL.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Describe how a particular story
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.7
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.9
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.10
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine a 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.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine an author
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.7
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.8
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.9
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast one author
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.10
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.E
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.E
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.F
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.E
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1
Common Core State Standard: W.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.(Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1
Common Core State Standard: W.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.7
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.8
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.9
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.9.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g.,
Common Core State Standard: W.6.9.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g.,
Common Core State Standard: W.6.10
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Range of Writing
Standard Description: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (subjective, objective, possessive).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.E
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others' writing and speaking,
Common Core State Standard: L.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.2.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.2.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Spell correctly.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.3.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.3.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Maintain consistency in style and tone.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.5.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.5.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.5.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Describe how a particular story"s or drama"s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.7
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.9
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Common Core State Standard: RL.6.10
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine a 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.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine an author"s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.7
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.8
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.9
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast one author"s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Common Core State Standard: RI.6.10
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.1.E
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.E
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.2.F
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.3.E
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Common Core State Standard: W.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.(Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3up to and including grade 6 on page53.)
Common Core State Standard: W.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.7
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.8
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.9
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Common Core State Standard: W.6.9.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories]in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics").
Common Core State Standard: W.6.9.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., "Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not").
Common Core State Standard: W.6.10
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Range of Writing
Standard Description: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (subjective, objective, possessive).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.1.E
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.2.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.2.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Spell correctly.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.3.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.3.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Maintain consistency in style and tone.*
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word"s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.4.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.5.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.5.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
Common Core State Standard: L.6.5.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).
Common Core State Standard: L.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Common Core State Standard: SL..1.A
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.1.B
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Follow rules for collegial discussions, set specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.1.C
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.1.D
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
Common Core State Standard: SL.6.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme:
Standard Description: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 6 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.)
Common Core State Standard: 6.TEKS.R.DS.1
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 6.TEKS.R.DS.2
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 6.TEKS.R.DS.3
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 6.TEKS.R.DS.4
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 6.TEKS.R.DS.5
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 6.TEKS.R.DS.6
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 6.TEKS.R.DS.7
Grade: 6
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
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