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.
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6.4
Description:
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.
Standard:
6.5
Description:
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.
Standard:
6.5.A
Description:
establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected text;
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6.5.B
Description:
generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;
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6.5.C
Description:
make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
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6.5.D
Description:
create mental images to deepen understanding;
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6.5.E
Description:
make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
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6.5.F
Description:
make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;
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6.5.G
Description:
evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
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6.5.H
Description:
synthesize information to create new understanding;
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6.5.I
Description:
monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.
Standard:
6.6
Description:
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.
Standard:
6.6.A
Description:
describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;
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6.6.B
Description:
write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;
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6.6.C
Description:
use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
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6.6.D
Description:
paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
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6.6.E
Description:
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
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6.6.F
Description:
respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate;
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6.6.G
Description:
discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text;
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6.6.H
Description:
respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice;
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6.6.I
Description:
reflect on and adjust responses as new evidence is presented.
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6.7
Description:
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.
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6.7.A
Description:
infer multiple themes within and across texts using text evidence;
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6.7.B
Description:
analyze how the characters' internal and external responses develop the plot;
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6.7.C
Description:
analyze plot elements, including rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and non-linear elements such as flashback;
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6.7.D
Description:
analyze how the setting, including historical and cultural settings, influences character and plot development.
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6.8
Description:
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.
Standard:
6.8.B
Description:
analyze the effect of meter and structural elements such as line breaks in poems across a variety of poetic forms;
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6.8.C
Description:
analyze how playwrights develop characters through dialogue and staging;
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6.8.D
Description:
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;
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6.8.E
Description:
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;
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6.8.F
Description:
analyze characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.
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6.9
Description:
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.
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6.9.A
Description:
explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
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6.9.B
Description:
analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
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6.9.C
Description:
analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
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6.9.D
Description:
describe how the author's use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes;
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6.9.E
Description:
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.
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6.9.F
Description:
analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood and voice;
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6.10
Description:
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.
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6.10.B
Description:
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;
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6.10.E
Description:
publish written work for appropriate audiences.
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6.11
Description:
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.
Standard:
6.11.B
Description:
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;
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6.12.A
Description:
generate student-selected and teacher-guided questions for formal and informal inquiry;
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6.12.D
Description:
identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources;
