Oklahoma 6th Grade ELA Standards in Critical Reading and Writing

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6.3 Critical Reading and Writing

• Reading: Students will analyze, interpret, and evaluate increasingly complex literary and informational texts that include a wide range of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives from a variety of genres.
  • 6.3.R.1 Students will compare and contrast stated or implied purposes of authors writing on the same topic from a variety of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives.
  • 6.3.R.2 Students will evaluate how perspective (e.g., historical, cultural, ethnic, and global) affects a variety of literary and informational texts.
  • 6.3.R.3 Students will analyze how literary elements contribute to the meaning of a literary text:
    • 6.3.R.3.a setting
    • 6.3.R.3.b plot
    • 6.3.R.3.c characters (i.e., protagonist, antagonist)
    • 6.3.R.3.d characterization
    • 6.3.R.3.e conflict (i.e., internal, external)
    • 6.3.R.3.f point of view (i.e., third person limited and omniscient)
  • 6.3.R.4 Students will analyze how literary devices contribute to the meaning of a text:
    • 6.3.R.4.a figurative language (i.e., simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, imagery, symbolism, idiom)
    • 6.3.R.4.b sound devices (i.e., onomatopoeia, alliteration)
  • 6.3.R.5 Students will identify literary elements and devices that impact a text’s theme.
  • 6.3.R.6 Students will categorize facts included in an argument as for or against an issue.
  • 6.3.R.7 Students will analyze how informational text structures support the author’s purpose:
    • 6.3.R.7.a compare/contrast
    • 6.3.R.7.b cause/effect
    • 6.3.R.7.c problem/solution
    • 6.3.R.7.d description
    • 6.3.R.7.e sequential
  • 6.3.R.8 Students will analyze one or more ideas from a text, providing textual evidence to support their inferences.
• Writing: Students will thoughtfully and intentionally write, addressing a range of modes, purposes, and audiences.
  • 6.3.W.1 Students will compose narratives reflecting real or imagined experiences that:
    • 6.3.W.1.a include plots involving characters resolving conflicts
    • 6.3.W.1.b unfold in chronological sequence
    • 6.3.W.1.c include a narrator, precise language, sensory details, and dialogue to enhance the narrative
    • 6.3.W.1.d use sentence variety to create clarity
    • 6.3.W.1.e emulate literary elements and/or literary devices from mentor texts
  • 6.3.W.2 Students will compose informative essays or reports that:
    • 6.3.W.2.a objectively introduce and develop topics
    • 6.3.W.2.b incorporate evidence (e.g., specific facts, details, charts and graphs, data)
    • 6.3.W.2.c maintain an organized structure
    • 6.3.W.2.d use sentence variety and word choice to create clarity
    • 6.3.W.2.e emulate literary devices from mentor texts
  • 6.3.W.3 Students will compose argumentative essays that:
    • 6.3.W.3.a introduce precise claims
    • 6.3.W.3.b organize claims and evidence in a logical sequence
    • 6.3.W.3.c provide relevant evidence to develop arguments, using credible sources
    • 6.3.W.3.d use sentence variety and word choice to create clarity