6th Grade ELA (Utah Core Standards)

Strand 1: Speaking and Listening

• 6.SL.1 Take part effectively in conversations and group work on topics, texts and issues.
  • a. Respectfully acknowledge comments, claims and evidence from many perspectives and point out contradictions.
  • b. Ask questions, note new information, justify responses with reasoning and stay on topic.
• 6.SL.2 Interpret credible information from different formats and media to make informed decisions.
• 6.SL.3 Adapt language, organization, development and delivery to the purpose and audience.
  • a. Use visual displays of data, including digital media, to share information and engage listeners.

Strand 2: Reading

• 6.R.4 Read grade-level text accurately and fluently enough to understand it.
• 6.R.5 Cite text evidence to support analysis of what is stated and what is inferred.
• 6.R.6 Find a theme or main idea and summarize the text.
  • RL. Find a theme, explain how characters respond to conflict and summarize.
  • RI. Find the main idea, explain how key details support it and summarize.
• 6.R.7 Compare story elements or analyze how ideas develop.
  • RL. Compare two or more characters, settings or events using specific details.
  • RI. Analyze in depth how a key person, event or idea is introduced and developed.
• 6.R.8 Work out word meanings, including figurative and connotative meanings, and analyze the effect of word choice.
• 6.R.9 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words using several strategies.
  • a. Use context consistently as a clue to meaning.
  • b. Use Greek or Latin affixes and roots consistently to work out meaning.
  • c. Use references to find pronunciation, exact meaning or part of speech.
• 6.R.10 Analyze how parts of a text work within its structure.
  • RL. Analyze how a sentence, stanza, chapter, scene or section develops theme, setting or plot.
  • RI. Analyze how a section adds to the main idea within the text's structure.
• 6.R.11 Analyze perspective and position.
  • RL. Explain how an author's perspective shapes the narrator's or speaker's point of view.
  • RI. Analyze how an author sets their own position apart from others'.
• 6.R.12 Compare what print and digital media each add to understanding a text.
• 6.R.13 Evaluate an argument, telling claims supported by reasons and evidence from those that are not.
• 6.R.14 Compare texts.
  • RL. Compare texts in different media or genres on similar themes and topics.
  • RI. Compare how two authors present the same events.

Strand 3: Writing

• 6.W.1 Write arguments with clear reasons, relevant evidence and a concluding section.
  • a. Introduce claims supported by evidence from credible sources and group them logically.
  • b. Use words, phrases and clauses to clarify how claims and evidence relate.
  • c. Use conventions and style suited to audience, purpose and task.
• 6.W.2 Write informative texts that convey ideas clearly and end with a supporting conclusion.
  • a. Introduce the topic and organize ideas (definition, comparison, cause/effect), with graphics as useful.
  • b. Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, details, quotations and examples.
  • c. Use transitions to clarify relationships among ideas.
  • d. Use precise language and subject vocabulary.
  • e. Use conventions and style suited to audience, purpose and task.
• 6.W.3 Write narratives of real or imagined events with relevant details, logical order and a resolution.
  • a. Set the context, introduce a narrator or characters and order events naturally.
  • b. Use dialogue, description and pacing to develop events and characters.
  • c. Use transitions to show sequence and shifts in time or setting.
  • d. Use precise words, complex sentences, descriptive details and sensory language.
  • e. Use conventions and style suited to audience, purpose and task.
• 6.W.4 Do short research projects to build an argument or answer a question.
  • a. Gather and combine information from credible sources.
  • b. Generate ideas that show understanding of the topic.
  • c. Avoid plagiarism by quoting or paraphrasing and give basic bibliographic information.
  • d. Work with others through the writing process.