English / Language Arts

Reading: Informational

Sixth Grade

ANCHOR STANDARD GRADE LEVEL STANDARD SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTLEARNING TARGET

Key Ideas and Details

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Black History Research Poster

Crane Research Unit

Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Patriots Pen Essay

Crane Research Unit

Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

Black History Research Poster

Modern Woodman Speech

Craft and Structure

Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

McDougal Littell Literature: Unit 8 Selection Test A (P.890-899)

Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.

Digging Up the Past text (will combine to create a common assessment)

McDougal Littell Lit. Unit 8 Selection Test A (P. 866-872)

Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

Determine an authors point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

McDougal Littell Literature: Unit 8 Selection Test A (P.890-899, What Video Games Can Teach Us & Violent Side of Video Games)

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

McDougal Littell Literature: Unit 8 (P. 914-917, Persuasive Techniques & Commercials)Finished Toy Company Product Representation (will create common rubric for products)

Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.

McDougal Littell Literature: Unit 8 Selection Test A (P.890-899, What Video Games Can Teach Us & Violent Side of Video Games)

Modern Woodman Speech

Patriots Pen Essay

Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Compare and contrast one authors presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).

McDougal Littell Literature: Unit 7

(P.815 Comparison Paragraph of Documentary & Biography, Houdini: The Great Escape)

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 68 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

SRA

MAPS Scores

Reading: Literature

Sixth Grade

ANCHOR STANDARD GRADE LEVEL STANDARD SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTLEARNING TARGET

Key Ideas and Details

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Sign of the Beaver (will combine to create common assessment)

Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Maniac Magee (will combine to create common assessment)

Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Describe how a particular storys or dramas plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

Sign of the Beaver (will combine to create common assessment)

Craft and Structure

Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

Maniac Magee (will combine to create common assessment)

Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Maniac Magee (will combine to create common assessment)

Sign of the Beaver (will combine to create common assessment)

Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

McDougal Littell Literature: Unit 2 (P.184-187 Eleven, P. 192-200 Ghost of the Lagoon) E Reading Worksheets.com

McDougal Littell Lit. Unit 2 wksht. P. 35 & 59.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they see and hear when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.

Maniac Magee (will combine to create common assessment)

Sign of the Beaver (will combine to create common assessment)

Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

(not applicable to literature)

Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Maniac Magee (will combine to create common assessment)

Sign of the Beaver (will combine to create common assessment)

Range of Reading Level and Text Complexity

Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 68 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

SRA

MAPS Scores

Writing

Sixth Grade

ANCHOR STANDARD GRADE LEVEL STANDARD SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT LEARNING TARGET

Text Types and Purposes

Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

1. Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.

2. Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.

3. Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.

4. Establish and maintain a formal style.

5. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.

Persuasive Toy Company Essay

Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a t