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Skills By Quarter
Each student is aiming to obtain a 3 or better on each target skill. There should be multiple attempts to obtain each target throughout the semester.
Meet the team
Meet the team
Mr. Cox
6th grade gifted ELA
Mrs. Brown
6th grade ELAkbrown12@usd259.net
Mr. Cox 6th grade gifted English and Math scox@usd259
Target Video Help
Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 1: I can trace and evaluate argument and specific claims presented in an informational text.
Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 2: I can distinguish claims that are supported by evidence and reasoning in an informational text from claims that are not.
Analyzing Ideas and Themes
Target 1: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed by
specific details.
Analyzing Language
Target 1: Determine denotative meanings of words and phrases in a text, including technical and academic vocabulary, using Greek and Latin roots, affixes, context, or reference materials.
Analyzing Language
Target 2: Determine connotative meanings of words and phrases, including technical language, and analyze the impact of specific word choice on how meaning and tone are developed in a text.
Analyzing Language
Target 3: Determine the meaning of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings in a text.
Analyzing Narratives
Target 1: Describe how setting and conflict develop in a literary text.
Analyzing Narratives
Target 2: Describe how a character develops in response to plot development in a literary text.
Analyzing Point of View
Target 1: Explain how the author develops the point of view and the purpose of the narrator or author and how it is conveyed in a text.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 1: Analyze how a sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza of a literary text contributes to theoverall organizational structure and development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 2: Analyze how a sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section of an informational text contributes to the overall organizational structure and development of the ideas.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 3: Analyze how a key individual, event, or idea of an informational text is conveyed by specific details.
Audience, Purpose, and Task
Target 1: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate for a specific audience, purpose, and task.
Comparing Texts
Target 1: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a literary text (story, drama, or poem) to listening or watching an audio, live, or digital version.
Comparing Texts
Target 2: Integrate information presented in different informational texts, media, or formats to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Comparing Texts
Target 3: Compare and contrast how authors of different genres present events that address similar themes, topics, and events.
Editing
Target 1: Edit for capitalization and correct spelling when writing.
Editing
Target 2: Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements when writing.
Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence using credible sources to demonstrate understanding of a topic.
Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 2: Organize reasons and evidence clearly using words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationship between the claim and reasons while maintaining a formal style.
Generating Narratives
Target 1: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Generating Narratives
Target 2: Use a variety of transitions, words, phrases, or clauses to signal shifts in time or setting.
Generating Text Organization and Structure
Target 1: Write informative/explanatory texts using a specific text structure to organize writing (such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect) with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, and other information using formal style.
Parts of Speech
Target 1: Use pronouns that match their antecedents in number and person.
Parts of Speech
Target 3: Use reflexive and intensive pronouns.
Revision
Target 1: (With some guidance and support from adults and peers) incorporate transitions to clarify relationships, include precise vocabulary, and specific details to strengthen writing.
Revision
Target 2: Revise sentence patterns to vary in length and complexity for meaning, interest, style and tone demonstrating command of standard English grammar.
Sources and Research
Target 1: Conduct research to answer a question by gathering information from print and digital sources.
Sources and Research
Target 2: Assess the credibility of sources to quote or paraphrase information using correct citations to avoid plagiarism and provide basic Works Cited information.
Sources and Research
Target 3: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support his/her own analysis, reflection, and research.
Speaking and Listening
Target 1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners building on others’ ideas and expressing his/her own clearly.
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