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Grade: Sixth Grade Reading Standard for Literature LAFS.6.RL.1.1 Reading Standard for Informational Text LAFS.6.RI.1.1

Score 4.0 In addition to Score 3.0, in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught.

Score 3.0 Students will be able to cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Performs complex skills:

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of inferences drawn from the text

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly

No major errors or omissions regarding the score 3.0 content

Score 2.0 The student:

Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: cite, textual evidence, analysis, explicitly, inferences, quote

Performs basic skills:

Quote accurately from a text when drawing inferences from the text

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly


Score 1.0 With help, partial success at score 2.0 content and score 3.0 content

Score 0.0 Even with help, no success

Grade: Sixth Grade Reading Standard for Informational Text LAFS.6.RI.1.2


Score 3.0 Students will be able to determine central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. Performs complex skills:

Provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgment

Determine a central idea of a text and how its conveyed through particular details



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: central idea, conveyed, summary, distinct judgments, main idea, key details


Summarize the text

Explain how two or more main ideas of a text are supported by key details

Determine two or more main ideas of a text





Score 4.0

In addition to Score 3.0, in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught.

Score

3.0

Students will be able to analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes). Performs complex skills:

Analyze in detail how an idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text

Analyze in detail how a key event is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text

Analyze in detail how a key individual is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text


Score

2.0

The student:

Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: analyze, analysis, series, anecdotes, event, idea, individual


Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific

information in the text

Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more events in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific


Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific



Score 1.0

With help, partial success at score 2.0 content and score 3.0 content

Score

0.0

Even with help, no success



Score 3.0 Students will be able to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings. Performs complex skills:

Determine technical meanings in text

Determine connotative meanings in text

Determine figurative meanings in text

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: figurative, connotative, technical


Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific phrases as they are used in a text relevant to topic or subject area

Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words as they are used in a text relevant to topic or subject area






Score 3.0 Students will be able to 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. Performs complex skills:

Analyze how the overall structure of a text contributes to the development of the ideas

Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or sections fits into the overall structure of a text No major errors or omissions regarding the score 3.0 content


Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: compare, contrast, structure, chronology, comparison, cause, effect, problem, solution, events,

ideas, concepts


Contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts

Compare the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts






Score 3.0 Students will be able to determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text Performs complex skills:

Explain how the author’s point of view or purpose is conveyed in the text

Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text No major errors or omissions regarding the score 3.0 content


Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: point of view, author’s purpose, convey, topic, event, similarities, differences, analyzes


Note important similarities and differences in the point of view of the same event or topic

Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic






Score 3.0 Students will be able to integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. Performs complex skills:

Integrate information presented in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue

Integrate information presented in different media or formats to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue No major errors or omissions regarding the score 3.0 content


Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: integrate, formats, coherent, topic, issue, visually, quantitatively, print resource, digital resource


Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources to answer a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently

Demonstrate the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently






Score 3.0 Students will be able to trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. Performs complex skills:

Distinguish between claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not in a text

Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text

Trace the argument and specific claims in a text



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: identify, trace, evaluate, distinguish, argument, claims, distinguishing, evidence


Identify which evidence support which particular point(s) in a text

Identify which reasons support which particular point(s) in a text






Score 3.0 Students will be able to 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). Performs complex skills:

Contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another

Compare one author’s presentation of events with that of another



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: compare, contrast, presentation of events, memoir, biography


Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to speak about a subject knowledgeably

Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write about a subject knowledgeably




Grade: Sixth Grade Reading Standard for Literature LAFS.6.RL.1.2


Score 3.0 Students will be able to determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. Performs complex skills:

Provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments

Determine how a theme or central idea of a text is conveyed through particular details in a text



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: theme, central idea, analyze, summary, detail, character, story, drama, speaker


Summarize the text

Determine how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic

Determine how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in a text






Score 3.0 Students will be able to describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. Performs complex skills:

Describe how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution

Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: describe, story, drama, plot, series, episodes, resolution, detail, compare, contrast, character,

setting, event


Compare and contrast two or more events in a story or drama drawing on specific details in the text

Compare and contrast two or more settings in a story or drama drawing on specific details in the text

Compare and contrast two or more characters in a story or drama drawing on specific details in the text






Score 3.0 Students will be able to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. Performs complex skills:

Analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone

Determine figurative and connotative meanings as they are used in a text



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: figurative, connotative, analyze, impact, tone


Determine the meaning of figurative language, such as metaphors and similes, as they are used in text

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text






Score 3.0 Students will be able to 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. Performs complex skills:

Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot

Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: analyze, scene, stanza, structure, theme, setting, plot, chapter, drama, poem


Explain how a series of chapters in a story, scenes in a drama, or stanzas in a poem fit together to provide the overall structure






Score 3.0 Students will be able to explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text. Performs complex skills:

Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: point of view, narrator, speaker


Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how the events are described






Score 3.0 Students will be able to compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. Performs complex skills:

Compare and contrast what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch

Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of

the text



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: analyze, compare, contrast, story, drama, poem, audio, perceive, tone


Analyze how visual elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text

Analyze how multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text

Compare the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text






Score 3.0 Students will be able to compare and contrast texts in different forms or genre (e.g., stories and poems, historical novels, and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics. Performs complex skills:

Contrast texts in different forms or genres in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics

Compare texts in different forms or genres in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: compare, contrast, genres, themes, topics, historical novels, fantasy stories


Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics




Grade 6 Argumentative Writing

Score

4.0


Score

3.0

Students will be able to write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. 6.W.1.1 Performs complex skills:

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 6.W.2.4

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. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 6). 6.W.2.5

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command

of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. 6.W.2.6


Score

2.0

The student:

Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: argument, credible sources, command of language, concluding statement, formal style, claim, reason, evidence,

purpose, task, audience, planning, revising, editing, publish, digital sources, print sources


Provide a concluding statement or section that follows the argument presented. 6.W.1.1e

Establish and maintain a formal style. 6.W.1.1d

Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons. 6.W.1.1c

Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text. 6.W.1.1b

Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly. 6.W.1.1a


Score

1.0


Score

0.0


Grade 6 Informative/Explanatory Writing

Score

4.0


Score

3.0

Students will be able to write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. 6.W.1.2 Performs complex skills:


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. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 6). 6.W.2.5

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command

of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. 6.W.2.6


Score

2.0

The student:

Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: precise language, domain-specific, quotations, multimedia, plagiarism, bibliographic, literary, informational


Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the information or explanation presented. 6.W.1.2f

Establish and maintain a formal style. 6.W.1.2e

Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about to explain the topic. 6.W.1.2d

Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. 6.W.1.2c

Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples. 6.W.1.2b

Introduce a topic, organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect;

include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 6.W.1.2a


Score

1.0


Score

0.0


Grade 6 Narrative Writing

Score

4.0


Score

3.0

Students will be able to write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevantdescriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. 6.W.1.3 Performs complex skills:

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of

keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. 6.W.2.6

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. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 6). 6.W.2.5



Score

2.0

The student:

Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: sensory language, dialogue, coherent, inquiry, creditability, plagiarism, bibliographic, literary, informational


Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. 6.W.1.3e

Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events. 6.W.1.3d

Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another. 6.W.1.3c

Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. 6.W.1.3b

Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and

logically. 6.W.1.3a


Score

1.0


Score

0.0


Grade 6 Research to Build and Present Knowledge


Score 3.0 Students will be able to conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate. 6.W.3.7 Performs complex skills:

Provide basic bibliographic information for sources. 6.W.3.8

Quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism. 6.W.3.8

Assess the credibility and accuracy of each source. 6.W.3.8

Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources. 6.W.3.8



Recognizes or recalls specific terminology: research project, sources, investigation, topic, summarize, paraphrase, notes, relevant information,

print and digital sources, inquiry


Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. (Apply grade 6 Reading standards to

literature and informational text). 6.W.3.9

Draw on several sources and refocus the inquiry when appropriate. 6.W.3.7




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