Skill plan for the Alabama Critical Standards - 6th grade
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Reading: Literature
Key Ideas and Details
RL.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Craft and Structure
RL.6.5: Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
RL.6.5: Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.6.9: 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.
RL.6.9: 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.
Reading: Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
RI.6.11: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI.6.11: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Craft and Structure
RI.6.15: Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
RI.6.15: Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RI.6.19: Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
RI.6.19: Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Writing
Text Types and Purposes
W.6.21: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
W.6.21: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
W.6.21.a: Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
W.6.21.a: Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
W.6.21.b: Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
W.6.21.b: Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
W.6.21.c: Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
W.6.21.c: Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
W.6.21.d: Establish and maintain a formal style.
W.6.21.d: Establish and maintain a formal style.
W.6.21.e: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
W.6.21.e: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
Production and Distribution of Writing
W.6.24: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Text purpose
Text structure
Organization
W.6.24: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Text purpose
Text structure
Organization
W.6.25: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Organization
Sentence structure
Revision
Punctuation
W.6.25: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Organization
Sentence structure
Revision
Punctuation
Language
Conventions of Standard English
L.6.37: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Sentence structure
Verbs
Verb tense
Adjectives and adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Pronouns
L.6.37: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Sentence structure
Verbs
Verb tense
Adjectives and adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Pronouns
L.6.37.a: Demonstrate knowledge of subject-verb agreement when interrupted by a prepositional phrase, with inverted word order, and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.
L.6.37.a: Demonstrate knowledge of subject-verb agreement when interrupted by a prepositional phrase, with inverted word order, and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.
L.6.37.b: Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (subjective, objective, possessive).
Pronouns and antecedents
Subject and object pronouns
Possessive pronouns
Personal and reflexive pronouns
Relative pronouns
L.6.37.b: Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (subjective, objective, possessive).
Pronouns and antecedents
Subject and object pronouns
Possessive pronouns
Personal and reflexive pronouns
Relative pronouns
L.6.37.c: Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
L.6.37.c: Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
L.6.37.d: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.
L.6.37.d: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.
L.6.37.e: Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).
L.6.37.e: Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).
L.6.37.f: Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others' writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.
L.6.37.f: Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others' writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.
L.6.38: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Capitalization
Commas
Format
Correct common errors
L.6.38: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Capitalization
Commas
Format
Correct common errors
L.6.38.a: Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
L.6.38.a: Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
L.6.38.b: Spell correctly.
Frequently confused words
Homophones
Plurals
Past tense
Adjectives and adverbs
Contractions
L.6.38.b: Spell correctly.
Frequently confused words
Homophones
Plurals
Past tense
Adjectives and adverbs
Contractions
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