Grade 6 ELA Worksheets

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• Define source synthesis and explain how it goes beyond summarizing one text
• Use evidence from multiple sources to build a coherent explanation
• Identify overlaps and decide what to do with differences between sources

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• Explain how to evaluate the credibility of a source using reliability signals and quality of evidence.
• Distinguish fact from opinion by checking support such as data, examples, and referenced material.
• Analyze how missing context or unclear sourcing can make information misleading.

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• Identify how themes develop across different parts of a story
• Recognize recurring symbols and contrasting viewpoints that shape themes
• Analyze how early ideas are strengthened or challenged later in the text+ Show more

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• Explain how purpose, audience, and format shape a simple media product.
• Identify supporting details that create coherence across visuals, text, and audio.
• Use ethical media practices by choosing accurate and complete information.

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• Revise sentences by replacing vague words with precise, specific language.
• Improve clarity by adjusting sentence structure to show clear relationships between ideas.
• Identify and remove repetitive or unnecessary wording that adds little meaning.+ Show more

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• Identify the purpose of titles and subtitles in texts
• Understand how text features like captions and diagrams support comprehension
• Recognize how layout and labeling contribute to understanding informational texts+ Show more

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• Organize an informative text using a clear structure (topic introduction, headings or logical order, and supporting details).
• Use accurate information with evidence and sources to explain a concept, process, or idea.
• Write sentences that define, describe, and elaborate so readers can understand the topic clearly.

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• Revise writing to strengthen a clear central message by checking sentence support for the main idea.
• Improve organization by reordering ideas for better coherence and logical flow.
• Check and correct consistency in tense, point of view, and terminology during revision.

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• Identify the main claim in an informational text.
• Understand how evidence supports an author's argument.
• Recognize structural elements like comparisons, definitions, and cause-effect statements.+ Show more

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• Explain how similes, metaphors, and idioms create meaning beyond their literal definitions
• Use context clues (nearby events, surrounding sentences, and speaker attitude) to determine figurative meanings
• Describe how figurative language shapes imagery, emotion, and conflict in a text

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• Explain how a narrator’s point of view affects what they notice and how they describe events.
• Identify narrator stance using evidence such as selective detail and emotionally charged diction.
• Analyze how the author’s craft shapes readers’ trust and interpretation of events.

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• Explain how a narrator’s point of view influences what information a reader notices and trusts.
• Identify how word choice and description style reveal a narrator’s attitude toward events and characters.
• Use evidence from a text to describe how the narrator reveals or withholds information.

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• Compare how theme and conflict develop across texts in different forms (such as poetry, drama, and prose).
• Identify how genre conventions (dialogue, stage-like moments, or compressed language) shape meaning.
• Use specific evidence from each text to support similarities and differences.

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• Identify the central idea or theme of a realistic fiction text
• Use supporting details (recurring events, repeated ideas, and key moments) to explain how they reinforce the central idea
• Distinguish between a central idea and details that only add information+ Show more

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• Identify first-person point of view in a story
• Understand how narrator’s perspective influences storytelling
• Recognize narrative techniques related to narrator’s stance

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• Combine an independent clause and a dependent clause to write a complex sentence.
• Use subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns to show relationships such as cause, contrast, and time.
• Revise sentence fragments so the dependent clause correctly attaches to an independent clause.

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• Distinguish tone from mood by identifying the author’s attitude and the text’s emotional atmosphere.
• Analyze how word choice, imagery, and sentence style (diction and syntax) contribute to tone and shape mood.
• Explain how shifts in events can cause changes in tone and mood.

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• Identify character traits and motivations in a narrative by analyzing what characters say and do.
• Infer how a character’s actions and decisions influence the plot and the story’s themes.
• Use textual evidence to support interpretations about a character’s personality and growth.

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• Identify antecedents for pronouns in informational text
• Choose pronoun case based on grammatical role
• Revise sentences to reduce ambiguous pronoun references+ Show more

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• Use quotation marks to show spoken dialogue correctly
• Place punctuation correctly relative to quotation marks
• Apply dialogue tags to identify changes in speaker+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea of a paragraph and explain how a topic sentence supports it
• Write and revise topic sentences that connect clearly to supporting details
• Use consistent point of view and tense to improve paragraph coherence

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• Identify observable media choices (wording, visuals, camera angles, editing pace, music, and layout) in a message
• Explain inferred meaning by connecting multiple media choices rather than treating details separately
• Use evidence from wording and visuals to support interpretations about author/creator purpose

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• Identify a writer’s main purpose
• Select supporting points for an intended audience
• Match writing choices to a specific goal+ Show more

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• Use context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words in Grade 6 reading and listening tasks.
• Identify meanings of common word roots and affixes to decode the meaning of new vocabulary.
• Use dictionaries to confirm definitions and select the definition that best fits a sentence.+ Show more

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• Identify a central viewpoint or reaction in a text-based response.
• Use evidence from the text and connect it to interpretation with clear reasoning.
• Check consistency between claims and text references to create a coherent argument.+ Show more

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• Identify vague or confusing wording and replace it with more precise language during revision.
• Revise drafts so key points and relevant details appear early enough for readers to follow the main idea.
• Use consistent references (names, pronouns, and topic terms) to reduce confusion.+ Show more

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• Identify the central idea of an informational text and distinguish it from supporting details.
• Write a concise summary using evidence that covers the whole text without repeating unnecessary details.
• Maintain the author’s meaning by using accurate key terms and summarizing the author’s structure (such as definitions and cause/effect).

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• Identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in sentences
• Identify pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections
• Choose parts of speech that improve descriptive tone+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea of an informational paragraph
• Recognize supporting details that elaborate on the main idea
• Understand how headings and examples clarify information

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• Identify how a narrative introduces time, setting, and background information to frame the events.
• Explain how point of view and tense support clarity in a narrative.
• Analyze how purposeful details in the opening create mood and lead toward a central conflict or goal.

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• Revise a draft by improving content, organization, and style to make meaning clearer
• Identify sentence-level changes that reduce redundancy and increase precision
• Use revision questions to strengthen how ideas connect for a specific audience and purpose

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• Identify types of context clues used to define unfamiliar words
• Infer word meaning from surrounding sentences and grammar
• Distinguish restatement, example, contrast, and cause-and-effect clues+ Show more

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• Understand key concepts related to ELA
• Apply knowledge through practice questions
• Demonstrate comprehension of the material

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• Support an inference using specific evidence from a text, including exact wording or precise details.
• Explain how a clue connects to an inferred meaning (not just naming the evidence).
• Revise an inference when the text includes information that seems contradictory.

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• Identify independent clauses and dependent clauses in complex sentences.
• Use subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns to connect ideas with precise relationships (time, cause, contrast).
• Revise sentence fragments by attaching dependent clauses to an independent clause.+ Show more

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• Identify how narratives establish context by including time, setting, and background information.
• Explain how characters, situation, point of view, and tense help readers understand a story’s events.
• Use purposeful details to build mood and set up a central conflict or goal.

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• Analyze how a character’s traits develop across a text by connecting actions, decisions, and relationships to evidence
• Track changes in behavior or reactions over time to identify growth, conflict, or changing beliefs
• Use character dialogue and descriptive details to support claims with specific textual evidence+ Show more

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• Write a clear claim for a persuasive argument supported by relevant evidence
• Use logical reasoning to explain how evidence supports a position
• Address counterarguments fairly and maintain focus on the main topic+ Show more

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• Identify the main claim and intended audience in a media message
• Explain how key details and visual choices support a message’s purpose
• Distinguish between informational and persuasive purposes in real-world media

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• Understand key concepts related to ELA
• Apply knowledge through practice questions
• Demonstrate comprehension of the material

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• Identify how visual and audio techniques guide attention and shape interpretation in media.
• Explain how editing choices (pacing, cuts, transitions) affect mood, clarity, and meaning.
• Analyze how typography, captions, and graphic overlays contribute to framing and audience understanding.

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• Identify the key parts of an effective paragraph: topic sentence, supporting details, and concluding statement.
• Use paragraph unity by keeping most sentences relevant to the paragraph’s main idea.
• Evaluate how evidence or quotations can be integrated smoothly to support meaning.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Understand key concepts related to ELA
• Apply knowledge through practice questions
• Demonstrate comprehension of the material

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• Identify how transitional words, pronouns, and repeated key terms create cohesion within and across paragraphs
• Explain cause-effect, compare-contrast, and sequence relationships using cohesive language
• Revise sentences to improve clarity by avoiding run-ons and using punctuation to support sentence connections

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• Identify the main idea in a paragraph
• Recognize supporting details and coherence in writing
• Practice revision strategies to improve clarity and focus

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• Identify how layout elements such as titles, headings, spacing, and paragraphing support clarity for an intended audience.
• Compare publishing choices for print versus digital formats and explain why those choices matter.
• Apply basic source acknowledgment practices to maintain academic integrity when using information in writing.+ Show more

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• Identify how word choice creates tone in writing
• Explain how sentence style shows the writer’s stance
• Determine formal or informal register for an audience+ Show more

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• Identify incomplete sentences and sentence fragments
• Distinguish between complete sentences and run-ons
• Practice writing clear, well-formed sentences with correct grammar