6th Grade CCSS:Reading: Literature

For sixth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a fictional 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 the theme of a piece of literature and how it is conveyed with details, summarize texts in a way that is separate from personal judgment, understand how plot and character development is supported as it moves to resolution through episodes that happen in stories, compare texts in different genres, be able to compare a text to the same story presented in a different format such as video or audio, read text appropriate to grade level while increasing in the level of text complexity throughout the year.