ELA.6.C.1.3 ELA.6.C.1.4 CC.1.4.6.S ELA.6.V.1.1 6.3* 6.4* 6.5 6.5.A* 6.5.B* 6.5.C 6.5.D* 6.5.E 6.5.F 6.5.G 6.5.H 6.5.I* 6.6 6.6.A* 6.6.B 6.6.C 6.6.D 6.6.E* 6.6.F* 6.6.G* 6.6.H* 6.6.I* 6.7 6.7.A 6.7.B 6.7.C 6.7.D 6.8 6.8.B 6.8.C 6.8.D 6.8.E 6.8.F* 6.9 6.9.A 6.9.B 6.9.C 6.9.D 6.9.E 6.9.F 6.10 6.10.B 6.10.E* 6.11 6.11.B 6.12.A* 6.12.D*

Responses to Texts Prompts 6th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.3*
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to adjust fluency when reading grade-level text based on the reading purpose.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.4*
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5
Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.A*
establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected text;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.B*
generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.C
make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.D*
create mental images to deepen understanding;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.E
make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.F
make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.G
evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.H
synthesize information to create new understanding;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.I*
monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6
Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.A*
describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.B
write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.C
use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.D
paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.E*
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.F*
respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.G*
discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.H*
respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.I*
reflect on and adjust responses as new evidence is presented.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7.A
infer multiple themes within and across texts using text evidence;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7.B
analyze how the characters' internal and external responses develop the plot;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7.C
analyze plot elements, including rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and non-linear elements such as flashback;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7.D
analyze how the setting, including historical and cultural settings, influences character and plot development.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.B
analyze the effect of meter and structural elements such as line breaks in poems across a variety of poetic forms;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.C
analyze how playwrights develop characters through dialogue and staging;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.D
analyze characteristics and structural elements of informational text, including: the controlling idea or thesis with supporting evidence; features such as introduction, foreword, preface, references, or acknowledgements to gain background information; and organizational patterns such as definition, classification, advantage, and disadvantage;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.E
analyze characteristics and structures of argumentative text by: identifying the claim; explaining how the author uses various types of evidence to support the argument; identifying the intended audience or reader;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.F*
analyze characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9
Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.A
explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.B
analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.C
analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.D
describe how the author's use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.E
identify the use of literary devices, including omniscient and limited point of view, to achieve a specific purpose; NOTE: The specific omniscient and limited points of view are not eligible for real assessment until the 2021-2022 school year.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.F
analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood and voice;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.10
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.10.B
develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion; and developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.10.E*
publish written work for appropriate audiences.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.11
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.11.B
compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.12.A*
generate student-selected and teacher-guided questions for formal and informal inquiry;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.12.D*
identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources;
Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.6.S
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade-level reading standards for literature and literary nonfiction. E06.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose. E06.E.1.1.2 - Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s). E06.E.1.1.3 - Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. 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. E06.E.1.1.5 - Establish and maintain a formal style. E06.E.1.1.6 - Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.6.C.1.3
Write and support a claim using logical reasoning, relevant evidence from sources, elaboration, and a logical organizational structure with varied transitions.
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.6.C.1.4
Write expository texts to explain and/or analyze information from multiple sources, using a logical organizational structure, relevant elaboration, and varied transitions.
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.6.V.1.1
Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.

Responses to Texts Prompts

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.3*

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to adjust fluency when reading grade-level text based on the reading purpose.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.4*

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.A*

establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected text;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.B*

generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.C

make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.D*

create mental images to deepen understanding;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.E

make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.F

make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.G

evaluate details read to determine key ideas;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.H

synthesize information to create new understanding;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.5.I*

monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.A*

describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.B

write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.C

use text evidence to support an appropriate response;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.D

paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.E*

interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.F*

respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.G*

discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.H*

respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.6.I*

reflect on and adjust responses as new evidence is presented.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7.A

infer multiple themes within and across texts using text evidence;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7.B

analyze how the characters' internal and external responses develop the plot;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7.C

analyze plot elements, including rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and non-linear elements such as flashback;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.7.D

analyze how the setting, including historical and cultural settings, influences character and plot development.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.B

analyze the effect of meter and structural elements such as line breaks in poems across a variety of poetic forms;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.C

analyze how playwrights develop characters through dialogue and staging;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.D

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.E

analyze characteristics and structures of argumentative text by: identifying the claim; explaining how the author uses various types of evidence to support the argument; identifying the intended audience or reader;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.8.F*

analyze characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.A

explain the author's purpose and message within a text;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.B

analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.C

analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.D

describe how the author's use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.E

identify the use of literary devices, including omniscient and limited point of view, to achieve a specific purpose; NOTE: The specific omniscient and limited points of view are not eligible for real assessment until the 2021-2022 school year.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.9.F

analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood and voice;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.10

analyze characteristics and structures of argumentative text by:
identifying the claim;

explaining how the author uses various types of evidence to support the argument;

identifying the intended audience or reader;

identify the use of literary devices, including omniscient and limited point of view, to achieve a specific purpose;

NOTE: The specific omniscient and limited points of view are not eligible for real assessment until the 2021-2022 school year.