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grade 6

process supports

The process standards reflect the thinking that students must master to become independent learners. We divide them into “tools to know” (accessing information or getting started) and “ways to show” (demonstrating learning). The resources below will help you integrate these important thinking skills into all units of instruction.

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking
6.2 Vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.
Vocabulary

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking
6.2 Vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.
6.3 Fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension.
Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
6.5 Comprehension. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
6.7 Literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.
6.8 Genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
6.9 Author’s purpose and craft. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors’ choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author’s craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.
Tools to Know – Reading Process, Comprehension
Ways to Show – Genre Characteristics, Overall Meaning, Analysis for Deeper Meaning
Author’s Craft – Point of View, Structure, Language
Responding to Text

6.4 Self-sustained reading: Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently.
6.6 Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
Self-Sustained Reading
Responding to Text

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
6.10 Writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
6.11 Genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
Tools to Know – Writing Process
Ways to Show – Writing Application