Colorado 6th Grade ELA Standards in Reading for All Purposes

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RW.6.2 Reading for All Purposes

• RW.6.2.1 Analyze literary elements within different types of literature to make meaning.
  • RW.6.2.1.a Use Key Ideas and Details to:
    • RW.6.2.1.a.i Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • RW.6.2.1.a.ii 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.
    • RW.6.2.1.a.iii Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
  • RW.6.2.1.b Use Craft and Structure to:
    • RW.6.2.1.b.i 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.
    • RW.6.2.1.b.ii 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.
    • RW.6.2.1.b.iii Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
  • RW.6.2.1.c Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
    • RW.6.2.1.c.i 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.
    • RW.6.2.1.c.ii Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (for example: stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
  • RW.6.2.1.d Use Range of Reading and Complexity of Text to:
    • RW.6.2.1.d.i By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• RW.6.2.2 Analyze organization and structure of informational text to make meaning.
  • RW.6.2.2.a Use Key Ideas and Details to:
    • RW.6.2.2.a.i Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • RW.6.2.2.a.ii Determine a 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.
    • RW.6.2.2.a.iii Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated on in a text (for example: through examples or anecdotes).
  • RW.6.2.2.b Use Craft and Structure to:
    • RW.6.2.2.b.i Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
    • RW.6.2.2.b.ii 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.
    • RW.6.2.2.b.iii Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
  • RW.6.2.2.c Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
    • RW.6.2.2.c.i Integrate information presented in different media or formats (for example: visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
    • RW.6.2.2.c.ii 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.
    • RW.6.2.2.c.iii Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (for example: a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
  • RW.6.2.2.d Use Range of Reading and Complexity of Text to:
    • RW.6.2.2.d.i By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-9 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• RW.6.2.3 Apply knowledge of word relationships, word structures, and sentence structures to determine the meaning of new words in context.
  • RW.6.2.3.a Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
    • RW.6.2.3.a.i Use context (for example: the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
    • RW.6.2.3.a.ii Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (for example: audience, auditory, audible).
    • RW.6.2.3.a.iii Consult reference materials (for example: dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
    • RW.6.2.3.a.iv Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (for example: by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
  • RW.6.2.3.b Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
    • RW.6.2.3.b.i Interpret figures of speech (for example: personification) in context.
    • RW.6.2.3.b.ii Use the relationship between particular words (for example: cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
    • RW.6.2.3.b.iii Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (for example: stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).
  • RW.6.2.3.c Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.