Standard 1: Student will make sense of a variety of grade level appropriate literary materials. (Literary Materials include: short stories, novels, essays, poetry, and plays consisting of classical and modern texts and representing both historical and cultural perspectives.

RD-M-1.0.11: Explain the meaning of passages appropriate for Sixth Grade students.

RD-M-1.0.12: Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of fiction, poetry, and plays.

RD-M-1.0.13: Describe literary elements (e.g., characterization, setting, problem/solution, theme, plot, and point of view) in a passage.

RD-M-1.0.14: Analyze the relationship between events in a story and a character’s behavior.

RD-M-1.0.15: Explain how a conflict in a passage is resolved.

RD-M-1.0.16: Identify literary devices such a foreshadowing, imagery, and figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole).

Standard 1: Student will make sense of a variety of grade level appropriate informational materials. (Informational materials include selections from scientific and cultural journals, feature article, news article, biography, autobiography, and primary source material.)

RD-M-2.0.11: Use text features (e.g., pictures, lists, tables, tables of contents, indexes, glossaries, headings, captions, charts, graphs, diagrams, and headings) to understand a passage.

RD-M-2.0.12: Apply knowledge of organizational patterns: sequence, cause and effect, comparison, and contrast in a passage.

RD-M-2.0.13: Identify supporting details and explain their importance in a passage.

RD-M-2.0.14: Summarize Information from a passage.

Standard 1: Student will make sense of a variety of grade level appropriate persuasive materials. (Persuasive materials include whole texts and excerpts from materials such as magazine and newspaper articles, brochures, letters, proposals, speeches, editorials, electronic texts, essays, opinion columns, and advertisements.)

RD-M-3.0.11: Distinguish between informative and persuasive passages

RD-M-3.0.12: Identify an author’s opinion about a subject.

RD-M-3.0.13: Apply knowledge of organizational patterns (cause and effect, comparison, contrast, sequence) to understand a passage.

RD-M-3.0.14: Distinguish between fact and opinion.

RD-M-3.0.15: Identify the argument and supporting evidence.

RD-M-3.0.16: Identify commonly used persuasive techniques (expert opinion, statistics, testimonial, bandwagon).

RD-M-3.0.17: Identify bias and/or misinformation.

Standard 1: Student will make sense of a variety of grade level appropriate practical/workplace materials. (Practical/Workplace materials include: warranties, recipes, forms, memoranda, consumer texts, and "how-to" manuals.)

RD-M-4.0.11: Locate and apply information for authentic purposes (following directions, completing a task).

RD-M-4.0.12: Identify the sequence of activities needed to carry out a procedure.

RD-M-4.0.13: Explain how organizational patterns and/or text features (pictures, charts, graphs, format) relate to the content of a practical/workplace passage.

RD-M-4.0.14: Interpret the meaning of specialized vocabulary.