6th Grade Language Arts Skills
Prior Standards Implementation
The standards listed below have been replaced by a newer set of standards.
Please go to Current 6th Grade Language Arts Standards for current resources.
Reading - Links to prior reading skills standards (e.g. using root words and common text features to make meaning of text; identifying patterns of rhyme and rhythm). Comprehension - Links to prior reading standards (e.g. determining fact or fiction, predicting future events from a passage, draw inferences from text). Writing - Links to prior writing skills standards (e.g. selecting appropriate titles, identifying purpose and audience of text, re-arranging sentences to
make a coherent paragraph).
Elements of Language - Links to prior language skills standards (e.g. identifying
correct use of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives).
Return to Grade Level Help.
Great Sites for all Ages:
Literature Learning Ladders - This site encourages active reading through book-technology connections, by exploring some online resources related to literacy, themes, literature circles, technology, and learning. Learning Ladders features WebQuests, Newberrys and the Net, Caldecott Connections e-books, graphic novels and popular children's literature.
Guide to Grammar and Writing - Writing Resources for Words, Sentences, Paragraphs, Essays and Research Papers. Also contains "Ask Grammar", Quizzes, and PowerPoints to help explain the rules of Grammar.