6th Grade ELA (Oklahoma Academic Standards)

Standard 1: Listening and Speaking

• 6.1.L.1 Listens actively within group rules, noticing cues and responding with social awareness.
• 6.1.L.2 Interprets a speaker's message and asks questions to clarify its purpose.
• 6.1.S.1 Works respectfully in diverse groups, sharing responsibility and recognizing contributions.
• 6.1.S.2 Discusses reading and writing, sharing own ideas and building on those of others.
• 6.1.S.3 Presents formally or informally, organizing content and form for the audience.

Standard 2: Reading and Writing Foundations and Process

• 6.2.R.1 Summarizes written or multimodal texts, including the main idea.
• 6.2.R.2 Analyzes details in stories, poems, and nonfiction to tell genres apart.
• 6.2.R.3 Paraphrases a paragraph in own words.
• 6.2.W.1 Prewrites by developing ideas and planning, returning to this step as needed.
• 6.2.W.2 Organizes ideas and writes a first draft, returning to this step as needed.
• 6.2.W.3 Revises for purpose, audience, organization, logical order, and transitions.
• 6.2.W.4 Edits for grammar, usage, and mechanics using a range of resources.
• 6.2.W.5 Publishes final drafts for real audiences, such as online or in contests.

Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

• 6.3.R.1 Compares the stated or implied purposes of different authors who write about one topic.
• 6.3.R.2 Judges how a historical, cultural, ethnic, or global perspective affects texts.
• 6.3.R.3 Analyzes how setting, plot, characters, conflict, and point of view shape meaning.
• 6.3.R.4 Analyzes figurative language and sound devices such as symbolism and alliteration.
• 6.3.R.5 Identifies literary elements and devices that affect a text's theme.
• 6.3.R.6 Sorts the facts in an argument into those for and against an issue.
• 6.3.R.7 Analyzes how text structures such as cause and effect support the author's purpose.
• 6.3.R.8 Analyzes ideas in texts and supports inferences with evidence from the text.
• 6.3.W.1 Writes stories with conflict and resolution, clear time order, a narrator, dialogue, and sensory details.
• 6.3.W.2 Writes objective informational essays or reports with evidence and an organized structure.
• 6.3.W.3 Writes argumentative essays with precise claims, logical evidence, and credible sources.

Standard 4: Vocabulary

• 6.4.R.1 Analyzes how synonyms, antonyms, and analogies relate.
• 6.4.R.2 Uses context, connotation, and denotation to clarify word meanings.
• 6.4.R.3 Uses affixes, Latin roots, and stems to define more and more complex words.
• 6.4.R.4 Uses dictionaries, glossaries, or thesauruses to clarify meanings and parts of speech.
• 6.4.W.1 Uses precise grade-level vocabulary to communicate clearly.
• 6.4.W.2 Chooses language to create a particular effect for the purpose of the writing.

Standard 5: Language

• 6.5.R.1 Recognizes simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• 6.5.R.2 Explains how parts of speech, such as reflexive pronouns, shape meaning.
• 6.5.W.1 Writes simple, compound, and complex sentences for clarity and variety.
• 6.5.W.2 Uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, and pronouns for clarity.
• 6.5.W.3 Fixes run-on sentences, subject-verb errors, and needless shifts in tense, person, or number.
• 6.5.W.4 Uses capital letters correctly.
• 6.5.W.5 Uses end punctuation correctly.
• 6.5.W.6 Uses apostrophes correctly.
• 6.5.W.7 Uses commas after introductory elements and in direct address.
• 6.5.W.8 Uses a colon to lead into a quotation taken from a source.
• 6.5.W.9 Uses quotation marks for dialogue, quoted words, and titles.
• 6.5.W.10 Underlines or italicizes the titles of works.
• 6.5.W.11 Uses a semicolon to join the parts of a compound sentence.

Standard 6: Research

• 6.6.R.1 Uses own workable research questions to gather information.
• 6.6.R.2 Records and organizes information from primary and secondary sources.
• 6.6.R.3 Judges whether information found is relevant and reliable.
• 6.6.W.1 Writes and refines a workable research question.
• 6.6.W.2 Writes a clear, concise thesis statement.
• 6.6.W.3 Quotes findings using a consistent citation style such as MLA or APA.
• 6.6.W.4 Produces research papers or projects on their own over short time frames.

Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies

• 6.7.R Compares how effective different multimodal content is.
• 6.7.W Creates multimodal content that communicates ideas effectively to an audience.

Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing

• 6.8.R Reads self-chosen texts on their own for different lengths of time, choosing genres they enjoy.
• 6.8.W Writes on their own in print, cursive, or typing, choosing modes and genres for the audience.