The following is a guide for choosing targeted objectives and assessing the students’ learning.  These grade level expectations for Grades 3-8 are not to be taught in isolation. This guide identifies featured skills that will be assessed at the end of the appropriate quarter. Each assessment is cumulative, so all the expectations need to continue to spiral throughout the year with a new group of identified skills featured. Some GLEs targeted in previous grades may also be assessed. The March CMT will test all skills expected to be mastered. These skills come from the reading comprehension GLEs. 

The * indicates a featured skill for the quarter. 

The x indicates continued instruction and possible assessment.

P indicates a prior grade’s GLE

Grade Level Expectations — Grade 6

Students:

Fall

Winter

CMT

Spring

State both literal and/or inferred main ideas.

*

x

x

Identify the type of conflict in a text and recognize how it affects the characters’ actions.

*

x

x

Identify the point of view used (first, second, third, or omniscient) and interpret how point of view influences the text (e.g., how would a story change if the point of view changed).

*

x

x

Explain the influence of setting (historical context) on mood, character and plot.

*

x

x

Summarize information, including introduction and closing statements, main idea, most important supporting text-based facts, details, and/or ideas, connections between the key ideas, and in one’s own words.

*

x

x

Describe how major and minor characters change over time.

*

x

x

Explain the use of foreshadowing and parallel plots to convey meaning.

*

x

Explain various subgenres of fiction based on their characteristics (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, myths, legends).

*

x

Explain how characters in a text deal with diversity (e.g., culture, ethnicity) and conflicts of human experience, relating these to real life situations.

*

x

Interpret cause and effect relationships (e.g., how the time period of a novel determines a character’s behavior).

*

x

Explain the use of flashbacks to convey meaning.

*

x

Explain how information in a text could be applied to understand a similar situation or concept in another text.

*

Explain the impact of literary devices on meaning (e.g., flashback, tone, bias, dialect, irony/satire, and use of fragments).

*

Evaluate the author’s use of various techniques to influence readers’ perspectives (e.g., appeal of characters in a graphic novels and picture books, logic and credibility of plots and settings, use of figurative language).

*

Understand how social, cultural and historical contexts contribute to an author’s perspective.

*

Draw a conclusion about how text might be useful to someone.

*

Create literal and inferential questions based on text to extend meaning.

*

Decide if the author’s ideas are grounded in fact.

*

Evaluate the credibility, accuracy and bias of informational text, including Internet sites, electronic recordings, visuals, and other technology resources.