Grade 6	READING	Week Taught	Week Reviewed
	Understanding and Using Literary Texts
6.1.1	Analyze literary texts to draw conclusions and make inferences.
6.1.2	Differentiate among the first-person, limited-omniscient (third person), and omniscient (third person) points of view.
6.1.3	Interpret devices of figurative language (including simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole) and sound devices (including onomatopoeia and alliteration).
6.1.4	Analyze the process of cause and effect and its impact on characters, setting, and conflict in a given literary text.
6.1.5	Understand the effect of an author’s craft (including tone and the use of flashback and foreshadowing) on the meaning of literary texts.
6.1.6	Compare/contrast main ideas within and across literary texts.
6.1.7	Create responses to literary texts through a variety of methods such as written works, oral presentations, media productions, and the visual and performing arts.
6.1.8	Carry out independent reading for extended periods of time to derive pleasure.
6.1.9	Understand the characteristics of poetry (including stanzas, rhyme schemes, and the use of repetition and refrains) and drama (including stage directions and the use of monologues).
6.1.10	Exemplify the characteristics of types of fiction (including legends and myths) and types of nonfiction (including speeches and personal essays).
	Understanding and Using Informational Texts
6.2.1	Analyze central ideas within and across informational texts.
6.2.2	Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions and make inferences
6.2.3	Understand indicators of an author’s bias such as the omission of relevant facts and statements of unsupported opinions.
6.2.4	Create responses to informational texts through a variety of methods such as drawings, written works, oral presentations, and media productions.
6.2.5	Carry out independent reading for extended periods of time to gain information.
6.2.6	Interpret information that text elements such as print styles and chapter headings provide to the reader.
6.2.7	Interpret information from graphic features such as illustrations, graphs, charts, maps, diagrams, and graphic organizers.
6.2.8	Interpret information from functional text features such as tables of contents and glossaries.
6.2.9	Predict events in informational texts on the basis of cause-and-effect relationships
6.2.10	Exemplify the use of propaganda techniques (including testimonials and bandwagon) in informational texts.
	Building Vocabulary
6.3.1	Use context clues such as those that provide an example, a definition, or a restatement to generate the meanings of unfamiliar and multiple-meaning words.
6.3.2	Analyze the meaning of words by using a knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes.
6.3.3	Interpret the meaning of idioms and euphemisms encountered in texts.
6.3.4	Distinguish between the denotation and the connotation of a given word.