<p> 6th Grade Reading Standards for Literature</p><p> The following standards offer a focus for instruction each year and help ensure that students gain adequate exposure to a range of texts and tasks. Rigor is also infused through the requirement that students read increasingly complex texts through the grades. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.</p><p>Grade 6 students: G Key Ideas and 1. 1. Cite 2. Determine a 2. 3. Details textual evidence theme or central Describe how a to support idea of a text particular analysis of what and story’s or the text says how it is drama’s plot explicitly as well conveyed unfolds in a as inferences through series of drawn particular episodes as well from the text. details; as how the provide a characters summary of the respond or text distinct change as the from plot moves personal toward a opinions or resolution. judgments.</p><p>Craft and 4. Determine the 5.Analyze how a 6.Explain how an Structure meaning of particular author develops words and sentence, the point of view phrases as chapter, of the narrator or they are used in a scene, or stanza speaker in a text. text, including fits into the figurative and overall structure connotative of meanings; a text and analyze the contributes to the impact of a development of specific word the choice on theme, setting, or meaning and plot. tone.</p><p>Integration of 7. Compare and 8. (Not 9. Compare and Knowledge and contrast the applicable to contrast texts in Ideas experience of literature). different forms reading or genres (e.g., </p><p>Page 1 a story, drama, or stories and poem to listening poems; historical to or viewing novels an audio, video, and fantasy or live version of stories) in terms the text, of their including approaches contrasting what to similar themes they “see” and and topics. “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.</p><p>Range of 10. By the end of Reading and the year, read Level of Text and comprehend Complexity 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.</p>