Literary Text Prompts
6th Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.11.A*
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compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.15
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Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.15.A
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write imaginative stories that include
- a clearly defined focus, plot, and point of view;
- a specific, believable setting created through the use of sensory details; and
- dialogue that develops the story; and
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.15.B
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write poems using:
- poetic techniques (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia);
- figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors); and
- graphic elements (e.g., capital letters, line length).
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.16
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Students write about their own experiences. Students are expected to write a personal narrative that has a clearly defined focus and communicates the importance of or reasons for actions and/or consequences. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
7
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Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.- Write narratives incorporating key literary elements, including characters, plot, setting, point of view, resolution of a conflict, dialogue, and sensory details.
- Write informative or explanatory texts with an organized structure and a formal style, incorporating a focused point of view, a clear purpose, credible evidence, and technical word meanings.
- Write an argument to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position, stating a claim and supporting the claim with relevant, well-organized evidence from credible sources.
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Arizona Academic Standards:
6.W.10
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.6.10
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE6W10
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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. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
6.W.RW.10
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Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.M
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Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.N
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Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.O
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Use narrative techniques such as dialogue,description, and pacing to develop experiences, events, and/or characters; use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.P
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Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically, using a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another; provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences and events |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.Q
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Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of writing.
Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
Use precise language.
Develop and maintain a consistent voice.
- E06.D.2.1.1 - Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.*
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E06.D.2.1.2 - Maintain consistency in style and tone.*
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E06.D.2.1.3 - Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.*
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E06.D.2.1.4 - Choose punctuation for effect.*
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E06.D.2.1.5 - Choose words and phrases for effect.*
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E06.E.1.1.4 - Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
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E06.E.1.1.5 - Establish and maintain a formal style.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.R
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
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E06.D.1.1.1 - Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (i.e., subjective, objective, and possessive).
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E06.D.1.1.2 - Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
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E06.D.1.1.3 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
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E06.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
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E06.D.1.1.5 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
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E06.D.1.1.6 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
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E06.D.1.1.7 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
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E06.D.1.1.8 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
E06.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation (e.g., commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
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E06.D.1.2.2 - Spell correctly.
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E06.D.1.2.3 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
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Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.6.C.1.2
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Write personal or fictional narratives using narrative techniques, precise words and phrases, and figurative language. |
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.6.V.1.1
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Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
6.W.3.S
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Write to express real or imagined experiences and/or events.- Use relevant descriptive details.
- Organize well-structured event sequences.
- Use narrative techniques (e.g., dialogue, sequencing, description, characterization).
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6th Grade Writing - Literary Text Prompts Lesson