Grade 6 Communication Skills
Unit 4: Standards and Benchmarks
Unit 4: Standards and Benchmarks
English Language Learner (ELL), Grades 6-8, Listening&Speaking (Early Advanced)
Strategies and Applications: Comprehension and Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Recognize appropriate ways of speaking that vary according to the purpose, audience, and subject matter.
Strategies and Applications: Comprehension and Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Respond to messages by asking questions, challenging statements, or offering examples that affirm the message.
Use simple figurative language and idiomatic expressions to communicate ideas to a variety of audiences.
Prepare and deliver presentations that use various sources.
English Language Learner (ELL), Grades 6-8, Writing (Intermediate)
Strategies and Applications: Organization and Focus
Use more complex vocabulary and sentences appropriate for language arts and other content areas (e.g., math, science, history- social science).
English-Language Conventions: Sentence Structure, Grammar, and Spelling
Revise writing for appropriate word choice and organization with variation in grammatical forms and spelling.
English-Language Conventions: Sentence Structure, Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization, and Spelling
Edit and correct basic grammatical structures and usage of the conventions of writing.
CA: CCCS: English Language Arts 6–12, CA: Grade 6, Reading: Literature
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
2. 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.
CA: CCCS: English Language Arts 6–12, CA: Grade 6, Speaking & Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
1a. Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
1c. Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
CA: CCCS: English Language Arts 6–12, CA: Grade 6, Language
Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
1e. Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others' writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.*
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
2a. Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
2b. Spell correctly.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
4. 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.
4a. Use context (e.g., 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.
4c. Consult reference materials (e.g., 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.
4d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Strategies and Applications: Comprehension and Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Recognize appropriate ways of speaking that vary according to the purpose, audience, and subject matter.
Strategies and Applications: Comprehension and Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Respond to messages by asking questions, challenging statements, or offering examples that affirm the message.
Use simple figurative language and idiomatic expressions to communicate ideas to a variety of audiences.
Prepare and deliver presentations that use various sources.
English Language Learner (ELL), Grades 6-8, Writing (Intermediate)
Strategies and Applications: Organization and Focus
Use more complex vocabulary and sentences appropriate for language arts and other content areas (e.g., math, science, history- social science).
English-Language Conventions: Sentence Structure, Grammar, and Spelling
Revise writing for appropriate word choice and organization with variation in grammatical forms and spelling.
English-Language Conventions: Sentence Structure, Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization, and Spelling
Edit and correct basic grammatical structures and usage of the conventions of writing.
CA: CCCS: English Language Arts 6–12, CA: Grade 6, Reading: Literature
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
2. 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.
CA: CCCS: English Language Arts 6–12, CA: Grade 6, Speaking & Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
1a. Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
1c. Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
CA: CCCS: English Language Arts 6–12, CA: Grade 6, Language
Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
1e. Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others' writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.*
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
2a. Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
2b. Spell correctly.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
4. 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.
4a. Use context (e.g., 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.
4c. Consult reference materials (e.g., 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.
4d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).