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English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

ELA21.6.8

Participate in collaborative discussions using information from a source.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The purpose of collaborative discussions using information from a source.
  • Collaborative discussions occur when participants actively listen, build on others' ideas, and ask clarifying questions.
  • Generally accepted rules for discussions.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Engage in a collaborative discussion.
  • Use information from a source to support their discussion.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Information they learn from a source can support collaborative discussions.

Vocabulary

  • Collaborative discussions
  • Source

Aligned Learning Resources

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Literacy Strategies in the Science Classroom: Collaborative Jigsaw Research
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

ELA21.6.9

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

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The purpose of collaborative discussions related to prose and poetry.
  • Collaborative discussions occur when participants actively listen, build on others' ideas, and ask clarifying questions.
  • Generally accepted rules for discussions.
  • Literary text often includes literary devices, such as personification, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia, symbolism, metaphor, and simile.
  • Literary elements within a story include the theme, plot, and point of view.
  • Poetry is a genre of text that uses distinctive style and rhythm to aid in the expression of feelings, while prose is written in ordinary language.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Engage in a collaborative discussion.
  • Identify and discuss literary devices and elements in poetry and prose.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Comprehension of poetry and prose can be demonstrated by engaging in a collaborative discussion about a text.

Vocabulary

  • Collaborative discussions
  • Literary devices
  • Literary elements
  • Prose
  • Poetry

Aligned Learning Resources

A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for The Tell-Tale Heart
Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora's Poem
Leading to Great Places in the Middle School Classroom
Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
Fantastic Characters: Analyzing and Creating Superheroes and Villains
What is Poetry? Contrasting Poetry and Prose
Doodle Splash: Using Graphics to Discuss Literature
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

ELA21.6.DL.A

Use technology, including the Internet, to research, analyze, produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information, people, and resources and to display information flexibly and dynamically.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

ELA21.6.10

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

Examples: online academic journals, social media, blogs, podcasts

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Digital sources, such as online academic journals, social media, blogs, and podcasts, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Determine subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of digital sources.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital sources.
  • Digital sources will focus on different subjects, be used on different occasions, are created with different intended audiences, have different purposes, and a variety of tones.

Vocabulary

  • Subject
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Tone
  • Credibility
  • Digital sources
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

ELA21.6.11

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

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • There are a variety of text sources, including written text, visual text, digital text, and interactive text.
  • Text sources can be used to create and answer questions.
  • Literal questions are those that can be answered using information directly from the text.
  • Interpretive questions are those that can be answered by inferring information from the text.
  • Applied questions are those that can be answered using information inferred from the text and a reader's background knowledge and experience.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to create and answer questions.
  • Create and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are three levels of questions that can be generated: literal, interpretive, and applied.
  • They can use written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to create and answer all three levels of questions.

Vocabulary

  • Written text
  • Visual text
  • Digital text
  • Interactive text
  • Literal questions
  • Interpretive questions
  • Applied questions

Aligned Learning Resources

The Distribution and Creation of Fossil Fuels: A Collaborative Jigsaw Research Project
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Literacy Strategies in the Science Classroom: Collaborative Jigsaw Research
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Comparing and Contrasting Mediums of Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
The Consequences of Being Too Plugged In-- Part 2 of Unplug: The Digital Diet Plan
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

ELA21.6.12

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

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Active listening skills.
  • Digital sources, such as online academic journals, social media, blogs, and podcasts, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.

Skills

Students are able to:
With guidance and support,
  • Interpret the language of digital sources to determine the subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and credibility.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital sources.
  • They can determine the subject, occasion, audience, and purpose of digital sources by identifying the intended meaning of the source.

    Vocabulary

    • Interpret
    • Subject
    • Audience
    • Occasion
    • Purpose
    • Credibility
    • Digital sources
    • Guidance
    • Support
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.13

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

    Examples: social media posts, blog posts, podcast episodes, infographics

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    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Necessary skills to create and edit digital products, such as social media posts, blog posts, podcast episodes, and infographics.
    • The intended audience and occasion should be identified before selecting a subject and purpose of a digital product.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Create digital products with attention to subject and purpose for different audiences and occasions.
    • Edit digital products with attention to subject and purpose for different audiences and occasions.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Digital products can be used to communicate with a variety of audiences and occasions.
    • They should modify the subject and purpose of their digital products depending on the audience and occasion.

    Vocabulary

    • Digital products
    • Subject
    • Purpose
    • Audience
    • Occasion

    Aligned Learning Resources

    Artificial Intelligence: What Is It and Where Is It?
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    A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for The Tell-Tale Heart
    I've Got It Covered! Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts
    Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research Techniques and Technology
    Alphabiography Project: Totally You
    Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise With Pop Culture Dictionaries
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.14

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

    Examples: speaking to defend or explain a digital poster, multimedia presentation, or video

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    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Oral presentation skills.
    • Strategies to introduce ideas in digital formats, such as speaking to defend or explain a digital poster, multimedia presentation, or video.
    • Methods to determine the subject, occasion, audience, and purpose of an oral presentation.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Introduce ideas in digital formats to enhance oral presentations.
    • Identify the subject, occasion, audience, and purpose of an oral presentation.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Digital formats can enhance their oral presentation.
    • Prior to an oral presentation, they should identify the subject of the presentation, the occasion for the presentation, the intended audience, and the purpose of the presentation.

    Vocabulary

    • Oral presentation
    • Subject
    • Occasion
    • Audience
    • Purpose

    Aligned Learning Resources

    Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise With Pop Culture Dictionaries
    3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.LL.A

    Recognize and demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, mechanics, and usage, including appropriate formality of language.

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.15

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

    Unpacked Content

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The conventions of standard English grammar and usage.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Identify conventions of standard English grammar and usage in texts.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Published texts can provide examples of the appropriate use of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.

    Vocabulary

    • Conventions
    • Standard English grammar
    • Standard English usage
    • Published texts

    Aligned Learning Resources

    Slipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.15a

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

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    Knowledge

    • The subject of a sentence is connected to a verb, and the subject and verb must match in number, case, and person.

    Skills

    • Identify subject-verb agreement when a sentence is interrupted by a prepositional phrase.
    • Identify subject-verb agreement in a sentence with inverted word order.
    • Identify subject-verb agreement when the subject is an indefinite pronoun.

    Understanding

    • Authors should ensure subject-verb agreement in all sentences, including those with interrupting prepositional phrases, inverted word order, and indefinite pronouns.

    Vocabulary

    • Subject-verb agreement
    • Prepositional phrase
    • Inverted word order
    • Indefinite pronouns
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.15b

    Evaluate pronoun usage for number and case.

    Examples: subjective, objective, possessive

    Unpacked Content

    Knowledge

    • Pronouns show the number of individuals involved; there are two numbers: singular and plural.
    • There are three cases of pronouns: subjective, objective, and possessive.

    Skills

    • Evaluate pronoun usage for number and case in published texts.

    Understanding

    • A personal pronoun indicates the number of individuals, and the case of the pronoun indicates its role in the sentence.
    • Authors should use pronouns with the correct pronoun and case.

    Vocabulary

    • Pronoun
    • Number
    • Case
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.15c

    Identify common errors in pronoun usage.

    Examples: person, number, ambiguous antecedents

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    Knowledge

    • Pronoun forms should indicate the correct number and person.
    • Pronouns should not have ambiguous antecedents.

    Skills

    • Identify errors in pronoun usage, such as person, number, and ambiguous antecedents.

    Understanding

    • Authors can clearly communicate in writing by using pronouns correctly.

    Vocabulary

    • Pronoun
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.16

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

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    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Identify the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in texts.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Published texts can provide examples of the appropriate use of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

    Vocabulary

    • Conventions
    • Standard English capitalization
    • Standard English punctuation
    • Standard English spelling
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.16a

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

    Examples: poetry, informational texts, narratives

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    Knowledge

    • Commas, parentheses, and dashes are used to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements in texts.
    • A nonrestrictive or parenthetical element is a part of a sentence that can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning.
    • There are multiple genres of text, including poetry, informational text, and narratives.

    Skills

    • Identify punctuation marks that are used to set off nonrestrictive and parenthetical elements in texts from a variety of genres.

    Understanding

    • Published texts can provide examples of the appropriate use of punctuation marks to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements.

    Vocabulary

    • Commas
    • Parentheses
    • Dashes
    • Nonrestrictive elements
    • Parenthetical elements
    • Genres
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.17

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

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    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Speakers organize their speech to indicate the point of view and purpose of the presentation.
    • Listeners can assess a speaker's organizational choices to determine the effectiveness of the presentation.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Identify and describe a speaker's organizational choices, such as point of view and purpose.
    • Assess a speaker's organizational choices to determine the effectiveness of the presentation.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Speakers make organizational choices that affect the overall effectiveness of their presentations.

    Vocabulary

    • Organizational choices
    • Point of view
    • Purpose
    • Effectiveness
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.18

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

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    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Speakers should use correct language, including appropriate subject-verb agreement and pronouns.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Identify the correct usage of spoken language, including subject-verb agreement and pronouns.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Speakers can provide examples of the correct usage of language.

    Vocabulary

    • Subject-verb agreement
    • Pronouns
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.19

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

    Unpacked Content

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The conventions of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Demonstrate written command of standard English, grammar, usage, and mechanics.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • To clearly communicate in writing, they. must use standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics.

    Vocabulary

    • Standard English grammar
    • Standard English usage
    • Standard English mechanics

    Aligned Learning Resources

    Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise With Pop Culture Dictionaries
    Tell and Show: Writing With Words and Video
    Punctuating Dialogue
    Punctuating Dialogue Introduction
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.19a

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

    Unpacked Content

    Knowledge

    • Commas, parentheses, and dashes are used to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements.
    • A nonrestrictive or parenthetical element is a part of a sentence that can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Correctly use commas, parentheses, or dashes to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements in writing.

    Understanding

    • To ensure their writing is clear and coherent, they must set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements with commas, parenthesis, or dashes.

    Vocabulary

    • Commas
    • Parentheses
    • Dashes
    • Nonrestrictive elements
    • Parenthetical elements
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.19b

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

    Unpacked Content

    Knowledge

    • Commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons are punctuation marks that are used in writing for different purposes.
    • Standard English punctuation conventions.
    • Strategies for revising writing.

    Skills

    • Identify the incorrect usage of commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons in writing.
    • Revise writing to correct errors in commas, apostrophe, quotation mark, colon, and semicolon usage.

    Understanding

    • Their writing must demonstrate the correct usage of standard English punctuation conventions.

    Vocabulary

    • Mechanics
    • Commas
    • Apostrophes
    • Quotation marks
    • Colons
    • Semicolons
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

    ELA21.6.19c

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

    Examples: personal, intensive, reflexive, demonstrative, relative, interrogative, indefinite

    Unpacked Content

    Knowledge

    • A pronoun is a word that can replace a noun in a sentence.
    • There are various types of pronouns, including persona, intensive, reflexive, demonstrative, relative, interrogative, and indefinite.
    • The noun that is replaced by a pronoun is called an antecedent.
    • Standard English grammar and usage conventions.
    • Strategies for revising writing.

    Skills

    • Compose writing with various pronouns and antecedents used correctly.
    • Revise writing to correct errors in pronoun and antecedent usage.

    Understanding

    • Using various pronouns in their writing can make their writing more engaging and interesting.
    • To ensure their writing is clear and coherent, they must use pronouns and antecedents correctly.

    Vocabulary

    • Pronouns
    • Antecedents

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