Alabama State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 6
AL.R. Reading - Students will:
R.1. Apply strategies, including making complex predictions, interpreting characters' behaviors, and comparing and contrasting, to comprehend sixth-grade recreational reading materials.
R.1.1. Identifying supporting details
R.1.2. Using context clues to determine meaning
R.1.3. Identifying sequence of events
R.1.4. Making generalizations from text information
R.2. Interpret literary elements and devices, including implied main idea, conflict, and personification.
R.2.1. Identifying the climax
R.3. Apply strategies that include making complex predictions, identifying the likely source of a text, and comparing to comprehend sixth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
R.3.1. Drawing conclusions to extend meaning
R.3.2. Making generalizations
R.3.3. Using context clues to determine meaning
R.3.4. Identifying sequence of events
R.3.5. Previewing text features before reading
R.4. Recognize the use of text elements, including implied main idea, explicit cause-effect relationships, and persuasive techniques, in sixth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
R.4.1. Identifying details related to main idea
AL.L. Literature - Students will:
L.5. Analyze short stories, novels, plays, myths, and nonfiction materials for distinguishing characteristics.
L.5.1. Identifying odes, ballads, epic poetry, and science fiction
L.5.2. Identifying figurative language in various literature selections
L.6. Identify the author's purpose as entertainment, information, or persuasion in selected works.
L.7. Identify examples of literary selections that illustrate linguistic and cultural diversity.
AL.WL. Writing and Language - Students will:
WL.8. Compose in persuasive mode for a specific purpose and audience, including clearly stated opinions with supporting details and reasons or examples to influence thought or action.
WL.8.1. Using the steps of the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing in all forms of written composition
WL.8.2. Demonstrating use of graphic organizers for prewriting and drafting
WL.8.3. Organizing content of paragraphs and other written compositions, including topic sentences, supporting sentences, and concluding sentences with varied sentence structure
WL.8.4. Using transitional words or phrases to help create coherence in compositions
WL.8.5. Using tone appropriate to the topic, purpose, and audience
WL.9. Utilize vocabulary and spelling skills, including using homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms in writing.
WL.10. Use punctuation correctly in writing, including apostrophes to show possession and semicolons joining two independent clauses.
WL.10.1. Punctuating titles with quotation marks, underlining, and italics in writing
WL.10.2. Using semicolons, conjunctive adverbs, and commas to join two independent clauses or to correct run-on sentences in writing
WL.10.3. Using commas to set off nonessential appositives in writing
WL.10.4. Identifying comma splice errors in writing
WL.11. Apply the rules governing capitalization of proper adjectives, map directions and regions of the country, seasons, titles, words showing family relationships, subjects and courses, and divided quotations.
WL.12. Apply grammar conventions in writing with consistent verb tense; nominative, objective, and possessive pronouns; and subject-verb agreement when interrupted by a prepositional phrase.
AL.RI. Research and Inquiry - Students will:
RI.13. Utilize resource materials for supporting evidence in compositions.
RI.14. Use organizing and paraphrasing in the research process.
RI.14.1. Taking notes to gather and summarize information
RI.14.2. Determining details through questioning
AL.OVC. Oral and Visual Communication - Students will:
OVC.15. Recognize speech forms including dialects and idioms.
OVC.16. Demonstrate eye contact, articulation, and appropriate voice intonation with persuasive presentations.
OVC.17. Use listening skills for remembering significant details, directions, and sequences.
OVC.17.1. Summarizing messages for content and purpose
OVC.17.2. Practicing note-taking skills to gather and summarize information
OVC.17.3. Paraphrasing spoken messages to summarize or clarify
OVC.17.4. Recognizing propaganda as an art of persuasion in evaluating content and purpose