- 6.1A: The student is expected to listen actively to interpret a message, ask clarifying questions, and respond appropriately.
- 6.1B: The student is expected to follow and give oral instructions that include multiple action steps.
- 6.1C: The student is expected to give an organized presentation with a specific stance and position, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, natural gestures, and conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively.
- 6.1D: The student is expected to participate in student-led discussions by eliciting and considering suggestions from other group members, taking notes, and identifying points of agreement and disagreement.
- 6.2A: The student is expected to use print or digital resources to determine the meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, word origin, and part of speech.
- 6.2B: The student is expected to use context such as definition, analogy, and examples to clarify the meaning of words.
- 6.2C: The student is expected to determine the meaning and usage of grade-level academic English words derived from Greek and Latin roots such as mis/mit, bene, man, vac, scrib/script, and jur/jus.
- 6.10A: The student is expected to plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal interests.
- 6.10B: The student is expected to develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
- 6.10C: The student is expected to revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety;
- 6.10D: The student is expected to edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
- 6.10Di: complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
- 6.10Dii: consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses.
- 6.10Diii: conjunctive adverbs;
- 6.10 Div: prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
- 6.10 Dv: pronoun, including relatives
- 6.10 Dvi: subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor;
- 6.10 Dvii: correct capitalization;
- 6.10 Dviii: punctuation, including commas to set off words, phrases, and clauses, and semicolons; and
- 6.10 Dix: correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too; and
- 6.10E: The student is expected to publish written work for appropriate audiences.