CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.6
Description:
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
6A, 6B, 6C
Exemplars
6B: Recognizing Persuasion
6B: Recognizing Persuasion
Description:
Recognizing Persuasive Devices
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-13
F-13
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1694 words
Author: Kelley Sachs
Synopsis: Non-native plants can often harm the environment when they invade a new area.
Excerpt:
Only so much can be done about invader species as strong as kudzu and bamboo. It takes a lot of work to remove these plants from anywhere they have taken root. With species invasions this powerful, sometimes the only thing a person can do is learn to live with the invader.
Question:
At the end of the selection, what does the author feel is a practical reaction to a strong kudzu invasion?
- acceptance
- anger
- delight
- relief
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Write a newspaper editorial or blog post to support an opinion expressed in a selection you read.
Evaluator
Organization:
Curriculum Design Institute
6A: Recognizing Author's Intent
6A: Recognizing Author's Intent
Description:
Recognizing Author's Purpose
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-45
F-45
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1835 words
Author: Heidi McLean
Synopsis: Many different kinds of people live within the protective walls of a typical Middle Ages village.
Excerpt:
You also notice that there are very few old people. People do not live long lives. Half of the population is age 21 or younger. Many people die from disease. One of the worst of these, known as the Black Plague, swept across Europe in waves in the mid-1300s. This dreadful disease took the lives of half the population, including many children. Childbirth is also a serious health hazard, taking the lives of about one woman in five. A similar percent of babies do not live to see their first birthday.
Question:
How does the author explain the small number of old people in the village?
- by describing some diseases that caused people to die young
- by stating that old people had to leave their homes to find work
- by showing that the rich were treated better than the poor
- by highlighting how villagers treated their oldest members with respect
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
What was the author's primary intent when he or she wrote a selection? What other objectives might the author have had in mind when writing the selection?
Evaluator
Organization:
Curriculum Design Institute
6C: Recognizing Mood/Tone
6C: Recognizing Mood/Tone
Description:
Recognizing Mood and Tone
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
F-48
F-48
Grade level: 6
Word count: 1923 words
Author: Anna Fisher
Synopsis: A poor teenager is given an opportunity to study electrical engineering in the city, but her father has different plans for her life.
Excerpt:
Her father stared at her as if he saw her for the first time. His eyes grew softer and he said, "I will not be your road block."
Kalpana stifled a scream of happiness and ran to her father. He took her in his arms and held her close. "When you are an astronaut, will you take me to the moon with you?" he asked.
"I will take you to the moon and beyond," she said.
Kalpana stifled a scream of happiness and ran to her father. He took her in his arms and held her close. "When you are an astronaut, will you take me to the moon with you?" he asked.
"I will take you to the moon and beyond," she said.
Question:
In this excerpt, the author creates a mood of
- acceptance.
- frustration.
- confusion.
- somberness.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Write five paragraphs in which the description of a setting reflects each of the following moods: anxiety, mystery, boredom, loneliness, elation.
Evaluator
Organization:
Curriculum Design Institute