6th Grade CCSS: Reading: Informational Text

For sixth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a non-fiction text. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, sixth graders will be asked to: support a textual analysis with correct direct citations and textual inferences, understand how a text conveys meaning with specific details, summarize texts in a way that is separate from personal judgment, use text elements such as comparison, cause and effect, and chronology to provide multiple accounts of the same events a text, be able to determine he meaning of figurative, connotative, and technical words in a text, use digital sources for information, read informational texts at grade band level, increasing in complexity throughout the year.