6th Language Arts Second Quarter Checklist

Writing

• Response to Literature: use posing and answering a question to convey information

• Support a judgment through references to the text

• Advance a judgment that is analytical, evaluative or reflective

• Organize an interpretation around several clear ideas, premises or images

• Demonstrate an understanding of the literary work

Reading

• Identify/ describe the speaker of a literary text

• Define/ explain the effects of sound (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme) in literature

• Explain the effects of graphics in literature

• Apply the knowledge of posing and answering questions as an organizational structure

• Use context clues in sentences/ paragraphs/ passages to identify words while reading

Conventions

• Use pronouns (personal, possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, reflexive, indefinite)

• Write and identify simple and compound sentences avoiding fragments and run-ons

• Use verbs (action, transitive, intransitive) linking, state-of-being

• Use verb phrases (main and helping verbs) in active and passive voice

• Maintain consistent number and gender in verbs

• Capitalize titles and directions of a regions

Word Study

• Prefixes: sub- , super- , im- , mid-

• Roots: tele, trac/ tract, vid/ vis

• Suffixes: -ion, -ive, -less