Grade 6 » Composition

Description: Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

Writing process

Description: The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.

6.10.A

Description: Plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal interests.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.B.i

Description: Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.B.ii

Description: Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.C

Description: Revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.i

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.ii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.iii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: conjunctive adverbs.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.iv

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.ix

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.v

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: pronouns, including relative.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.vi

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.vii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: capitalization of proper nouns, including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.10.D.viii

Description: Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: punctuation marks, including commas in complex sentences, transitions, and introductory elements.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

Genres

Description: The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.

6.11.A

Description: Compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.11.B

Description: Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.11.C

Description: Compose multi-paragraph argumentative texts using genre characteristics and craft.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

6.11.D

Description: Compose correspondence that reflects an opinion, registers a complaint, or requests information in a business or friendly structure.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts