Grade 6 ELA Alabama standards Standards

Vocabulary Literacy 6-8

Research Literacy 6-8

Language Literacy 6-8

Digital Literacy 6-8

Critical Literacy 6-8

Recurring Standards 6-8

Utilize active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings, following agreed-upon rules for participation.

Use context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar spoken or written words.

Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically when researching and writing, both individually and collaboratively.

Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres.

Assess the formality of occasions in order to speak or write using appropriate language and tone.

Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

Identify and explain an author's rhetorical choices, including point of view, purpose, anecdotes, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings, to develop central and supporting ideas.

Make inferences and draw logical conclusions from the content and structures of informational texts, including comparison and contrast, problem and solution, claims and evidence, cause and effect, description, and sequencing.

Explain how authors use setting, plot, characters, theme, conflict, dialogue, and point of view to contribute to the meaning and purpose of prose and poetry, using textual evidence from the writing.

Describe the use of literary devices in prose and poetry, including simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, tone, imagery, irony, symbolism, and mood, and indicate how they support interpretations of the text.

Evaluate the development of central and supporting ideas in recorded or live presentations by examining the speaker's rhetorical choices regarding point of view, purpose, anecdotes, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.

Support interpretations of recorded or live presentations by examining the speaker's use of hyperbole, tone, symbolism, imagery, mood, irony, and onomatopoeia.

Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.

Write narratives incorporating key literary elements, including characters, plot, setting, point of view, resolution of a conflict, dialogue, and sensory details.

Write informative or explanatory texts with an organized structure and a formal style, incorporating a focused point of view, a clear purpose, credible evidence, and technical word meanings.

Write an argument to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position, stating a claim and supporting the claim with relevant, well-organized evidence from credible sources.

Participate in collaborative discussions using information from a source.

Participate in collaborative discussions about literary devices and elements found in prose and poetry.

Determine subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of digital sources.

Utilize written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions.

Interpret language to determine subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and credibility of digital sources, with guidance and support.

Create and edit digital products that are appropriate in subject and purpose for a particular audience or occasion.

Enhance oral presentations by introducing ideas in digital formats with specific attention to subject, occasion, audience, and purpose.

Identify the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in published texts.

Identify subject-verb agreement when interrupted by a prepositional phrase, with inverted word order, and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.

Evaluate pronoun usage for number and case.

Identify common errors in pronoun usage.

Identify the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in published texts.

Identify commas, parentheses, and dashes that are used to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements in texts from various genres.

Assess a speaker's organizational choices to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness.

Identify a speaker's correct usage of language, including subject-verb agreement and pronouns.

Demonstrate command of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics when writing.

Use commas, parentheses, or dashes to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements.

Revise writing for correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.

Compose and revise writing by using various pronouns and their antecedents correctly.

Choose language that maintains consistency in style and tone in a variety of formal and/or informal settings.

Summarize ethical guidelines and explain how they govern the process of finding and recording information from primary, secondary, and digital sources, with guidance and support.

Assess the relevance, reliability, and validity of information from printed and/or digital texts.

Use an audio or audio-visual source of information to obtain the answer to a question.

Write about research findings independently over short and/or extended periods of time.

Quote, paraphrase, and summarize information from sources and present findings, following an appropriate citation style, with guidance and support.

Utilize research findings to communicate relevant details, opinions, and ideas about a topic or text in oral presentations.

Answer questions in discussions about their research findings.

Discover word meanings by analyzing word parts, examining connotation and denotation, or using print or digital reference tools.

Discover word meanings through active listening in various contexts.

Use academic vocabulary in writing to communicate effectively.

Use vocabulary to create specific reactions or effects when speaking in various classroom and digital situations.

Vocabulary Literacy

Research Literacy

Language Literacy

Digital Literacy

Critical Literacy

Identify the point of view and author’s purpose (i.e., to instruct, to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to describe).

Use information presented in different media or formats (e.g., video, print) to demonstrate understanding of a topic or issue.

Determine subject, occasion, and purpose (i.e., to instruct, to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to describe) of digital sources.

Identify the correct verb tense that completes a sentence.

Identify a sentence that uses correct capitalization.

Identify a sentence that uses commas to separate items in a series.

Use apostrophes to show the omission of letters (i.e. contractions) (i.e., can’t, don’t, he’d, she’d, he’s, she’s, I’ll).

Use an apostrophe to show possession by a singular noun (e.g., the child’s coat, the car’s window).

Use quotation marks to indicate dialogue (speaking) or a direct quote of a person.

Make simple inferences from the content and the structure (i.e., cause and effect, sequencing) of an informational text.

Identify which source would provide reliable information about a topic.

Summarize information from two research sources.

Use knowledge of prefixes (i.e., re-, un-, pre) and suffixes (i.e., -er/-or [person who], -ful [full of], -less [without], -er, -est [more/most]) to identify the meaning of a word.

Identify the meaning of words or phrases in context.

Identify how setting, plot, characters, theme, and conflict contribute to the meaning of prose (story) and poetry.

Identify words or phrases that are examples of literary devices (i.e., simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, imagery) used in prose (story) and poetry.

Identify the central idea and supporting details when listening to a speaker.

Identify an example of a literary device (i.e., simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, imagery) presented by a speaker.

Compose narratives by introducing a narrator or characters, organizing events in sequence, and providing an ending related to the event sequence.

Compose informative or explanatory texts by stating a topic, providing facts or details, and providing an appropriate conclusion related to the topic.

Compose argumentative texts by stating a topic, providing reasons that support the argument, and providing an appropriate conclusion related to the topic.

Participate in discussions with adults and peers using information from a source.