Sixth grade Utah language arts core (condensed version)
Standard 1: STUDENTS DEVELOP LANGUAGE FOR THE PURPOSE OF EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATING THROUGH LISTENING, SPEAKING, VIEWING, AND PRESENTING
- Listening & Speaking
- Identify specific purpose
- Respond appropriately
- Speak clearly, audibly & with expression
- Use complex sentences with appropriate subject/verb agreement, correct verb tense, & syntax
- Viewing Media & Presenting
- Identify specific purpose for viewing media
- Use variety of formats in presenting with various forms of media
Standard 2: STUDENTS DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW PRINTED LANGUAGE WORKS
Common Core-assumes these skills are mastered by 6th grade & are not explicitly taught.
Standard 3: STUDENTS DEVELOP PHONOLOGICAL & PHONEMIC AWARENESS
Common Core-assumes these skills are mastered by 6th grade and are not explicitly taught.
Standard 4: STUDENTS USE PHONICS & OTHER STRATEGIES TO DECODE & SPELL UNFAMILIAR WORDS WHILE READING & WRITING
- Spells words correctly
- Knowledge of Greek & Latin roots & affixes
- Uses prediction, visualization, association
Standard 5: STUDENTS DEVELOP READING FLUENCY TO READ ALOUD GRADE LEVEL TEXT EFFORTLESSLY WITHOUT HESITATION
- Reads aloud effortlessly with clarity
- Uses intonation, expression & punctuation cues
- Reads with automaticity
Standard 6: STUDENTS LEARN & USE GRADE LEVEL VOCABULARY TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING & READ FLUENTLY
- Learn new words through listening & reading
- Use new vocabulary learned by listening, reading, & discussion
- Uses academic & domain specific words & phrases
- Use multiple resources to learn new words
- Dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses, print & digital
- Determine gradients of meanings between related words & concepts, connotation & dennotation
- Use structural analysis & context clues
- Use roots & affixes
- Use words, sentences & paragraphs as context clues to determine meanings of similes, metaphors, idioms, proverbs, cliches, & literary expressions
- Use context to determine meanings of synonyms, antonyms, homonyms & multiple meaning words
Standard 7: STUDENTS UNDERSTAND, INTERPRET & ANALYZE NARRATIVE & INFORMATIONAL GRADE LEVEL TEXT
- Identify purpose of text
- Identify author's purpose
- Apply strategies to comprehend text
- Relate prior knowledge
- Generate questions about text including factual, inferential & evaluative
- Make inferences & draw conclusions
- Identify them/topic/main idea from text with details
- Summarize important ideas & events; summarize supporting ideas in sequence
- Monitor & clarify understanding
- Compile, organize, & interpret information from text
- Recognize & use features of narrative & informational text
- Identify characters, setting, sequence of events, problem/resolution, theme
- Compare & contrast elements of different genres:
- fairy tales
- poems
- realistic fiction
- fantasy
- fables
- folk tales
- tall tales
- biographies
- historical fiction
- science fiction
- myths
- legends
- Identify information from text, headings, subheadings, diagrams, charts, captions, graphs, table of contents, index, & glossary
- Identify different structures in text:
- description
- problem/solution
- compare/contrast
- cause/effect
- order of importance
- time
- geographic classification
- Locate facts from a variety of information texts including websites, newspapers, magazines, textbooks, biographies
Standard 8: STUDENTS WRITE DAILY TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY FOR A VARIETY OF PURPOSES & AUDIENCES
- Prepare to write by gathering & organizing information & ideas
- Generate ideas
- Select & narrow topic
- Identify audience, purpose & form of writing
- Use a variety of graphic organizers
- Compose a written draft
- Draft ideas in an organized manner
- Use voice to fit the purpose & audience
- Use correct parts of speech with precise & vivid language to convey meaning
- Identify & use effective introductions & conclusions
- Revise by elaborating & clarifying a written draft
- Add details, strengthen word choice, clarify main idea & reorder content
- Enhance fluency by using transitional words & phrases
- Revise using suggestions from others
- Edit writing for conventions
- Edit for correct capitalization & punctuation
- introductory & dependent clauses
- dialogue
- singular & plural possessives
- Edit for spelling of grade-level appropriate words
- Edit for standard grammar
- Edit for appropriate formatting features
- margins
- titles
- headings
- Edit for correct capitalization & punctuation
- Use fluent & legible handwriting to communicate
- Use technology for publication
- Write in different forms & genres
- Produce personal writing
- journals
- personal experiences
- eyewitness accounts
- memoirs
- literature responses
- Produce traditional & imaginative stories, narrative & formula poetry
- Produce informational text
- book reports
- cause/effect reports
- compare/contrast essays
- observational/research reports
- content area reports
- biographies
- historical fiction
- summaries
- Produce personal writing
- Produce writing to persuade
- essays
- editorials
- speeches
- TV scripts
- responses to media
- Produce functional texts
- newspaper & newsletters
- articles
- e-mails
- multi-media presentations
- blogs
- web pages
- Share writing with others incorporating
- relevant illustrations
- photos
- charts
- diagrams
- graphs
- Publish 6 - 8 individual products