Essential Standards (Click each standard to open the corresponding Proficiency Scale)

ELA.6.1 (W 6.1): Students will write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

ELA.6.2 (W 6.2): Students will write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

ELA.6.3 (W 6.3): Students will write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

ELA.6.4 (W 6.7): Students can conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.

ELA.6.5 (W 6.8): Students can gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.

ELA.6.6 (RL/RI 6.1): Students can cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

ELA.6.7 (RL/RI 6.2): Students can 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.

ELA.6.8 (RI 6.3): Students can analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

ELA.6.9 (RL/RI 6.5): Students can analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section (stanza or scene) fits into the overall structure0of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.

ELA.6.10 (RL/RI 6.6): Students can determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text (in literature explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text).

ELA.6.11 (RL 6.9): Students can 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.

ELA.6.12 (RL 6.10): By the end of the year, students can read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.