Grade 6 ELA Worksheets

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• Identify and use discussion norms that support respectful, productive conversations.
• Practice active listening and building on others’ ideas during small-group discussions.
• Write meaningful comments that clarify, add evidence, or connect to the topic.+ Show more

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• Gather relevant evidence (facts, details, examples) to support a claim
• Evaluate whether sources are credible and evidence is accurate and relevant
• Integrate evidence smoothly into writing using clear explanations+ Show more

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• Use context clues (definition, restatement, example, and contrast) to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Apply knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to refine word meaning and interpretation.
• Connect inferred word meaning to the author’s purpose and the overall nuance of the text.

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• Compare how theme and conflict develop in different text forms (such as drama, poetry, and prose) using specific evidence.
• Identify how genre conventions (structure, dialogue, stanzas, or plot organization) shape meaning.
• Use text-based details to explain similarities and differences across forms rather than relying on general impressions.

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• Identify the main claim and supporting sub-claims in an argument.
• Explain how reasons and evidence work together to justify claims.
• Recognize common argument relationships such as cause, comparison, and problem-solution.+ Show more

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• Identify the central message and key details in information presented through diagrams, charts, timelines, photos, audio, and short videos.
• Explain how labels, legends, captions, and design choices change or clarify meaning.
• Distinguish between supporting data and general background information when interpreting a source.+ Show more

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• Identify how authors use connections (cause/effect, problem/solution, concept-to-concept) to build understanding.
• Explain how signal words and text structure help readers follow relationships and contrasts.
• Distinguish between ideas by recognizing contrasts, categories, viewpoints, or stages in a process.

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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 an informational text’s structure helps the author achieve a purpose.
• Identify common structural features (headings, transitions, and sequence) and describe how they guide reader understanding.
• Use placement and organization (beginning, middle, end) to infer emphasis and main ideas.

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• Identify how a character reacts to conflict and how those reactions change the character’s behavior
• Use evidence from actions and dialogue to explain what a character values or believes
• Describe how a character’s choices under pressure affect the direction of a plot+ Show more

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• Compare how theme, character responses, and point of view work together across texts with different styles.
• Explain how an author’s language choices (including figurative language and connotative words) shape tone and characterization.
• Use text evidence to show how differences in style lead to similar or different insights.

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• Identify a character’s motive by using details from the text and context
• Explain how a character’s choice leads to consequences later in the story
• Connect evidence from moments in the text to inferences about goals, fears, or loyalties

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• Identify how a narrator’s point of view influences what details the narrator notices and emphasizes.
• Explain how an author’s craft (description style and emotionally charged diction) shapes readers’ trust and interpretation.
• Use textual evidence to describe what the narrator reveals or withholds.

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• Explain how digital tools support drafting, revising, formatting, and sharing writing
• Identify how headings, paragraphs, and spacing improve readability on a screen
• Use editing and attribution conventions to improve clarity and cite sources appropriately

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• Identify when to use a direct quotation versus a paraphrase in a written response.
• Paraphrase ideas from a text accurately without changing the meaning.
• Integrate evidence smoothly so the cited details connect clearly to a claim.+ Show more

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• Explain how theme differs from topic by using theme statements
• Identify theme by analyzing patterns among events, character actions, and conflicts
• Support a theme interpretation with textual evidence+ Show more

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• Explain what a counterclaim is and how it differs from the writer’s claim
• Write a rebuttal that responds directly to a counterclaim using specific reasons and evidence
• Identify when a counterclaim is incomplete, unsupported, or outweighed by stronger information

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• Identify and distinguish simple, compound, and complex sentences in writing.
• Revise run-ons and fragments by splitting, combining, and adding correct punctuation.
• Use sentence variety to improve clarity, readability, and emphasis.

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• Use paragraphing and transitions to keep ideas clear and in logical order.
• Identify how writers maintain consistent tense, perspective, and terminology to reduce confusion.
• Revise sentences so they connect smoothly and support the main purpose.

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• Identify an author’s purpose in an informational text by distinguishing whether the author writes to inform, persuade, or entertain.
• Use textual clues such as tone, word choice, and evidence to support an author’s purpose claim.
• Evaluate how an author’s purpose may affect reliability and bias in a text.

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• Make inferences about an author’s purpose using evidence from multi-paragraph informational texts
• Use context to understand technical vocabulary and evaluate how it supports key claims
• Analyze nuanced viewpoints by identifying counterarguments and how conclusions are refined

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• Identify common text features (headings, subheadings, captions, and graphics) in informational text
• Explain how text features help readers find key information and understand main ideas
• Use text features to answer questions and make predictions about what an informational text will cover

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• Identify different types of evidence in informational texts, such as data, quotations, and examples
• Explain how evidence supports a claim in an informational paragraph
• Evaluate the credibility of information by checking how evidence is used

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• Explain how an author’s point of view affects the way information is presented in a text.
• Identify bias or perspective by analyzing language choices, tone, and evidence.
• Compare statements to determine whether they reflect a neutral perspective or a specific viewpoint.

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• Identify the central idea of an informational text using key supporting details
• Distinguish between main ideas and less important details when reading closely
• Use evidence from the text to write a clear, accurate summary+ Show more

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• Evaluate whether a source is relevant to a research question.
• Determine if a source is credible by using evidence about the author and publication.
• Extract key information accurately and decide whether it supports a specific claim.

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• Identify how introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions work together to meet a writing purpose
• Write topic sentences that state a controlling idea and support logical paragraph development
• Use transitions to connect ideas smoothly within and across paragraphs+ Show more

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• Identify the central idea of an informational text
• Write a summary that keeps the author’s meaning while using evidence
• Choose key supporting points and omit minor details

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• Revise transition words so they match the relationship between ideas (cause, contrast, sequence, emphasis).
• Maintain coherence by using consistent references and repeating key terms on purpose.
• Keep a stable point of view and tense by identifying and correcting shifts.

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• Determine an author’s likely purpose by analyzing patterns in the text.
• Identify how evidence selection and transitions support a purpose (to inform, explain, persuade, or entertain).
• Explain how an author’s language choices and organization shape the reader’s understanding.

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• Identify a text’s central idea or theme using clues from the whole passage.
• Explain how supporting details connect to the central idea across paragraphs.
• Use evidence from key moments to support claims about what the text emphasizes.

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• Choose textual evidence that directly supports a claim, inference, or summary.
• Explain how evidence shows cause-and-effect or a key idea from a passage.
• Avoid irrelevant details when answering reading questions.

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• Identify the literal meaning of words and phrases in a passage that uses figurative language.
• Determine what a simile or metaphor suggests about a character, idea, or theme.
• Explain how repeated figurative language can reinforce an implied message in a poem or speech.

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• Use evidence from nearby sentences, actions, and descriptions to make inferences
• Identify likely motives, consequences, and outcomes based on what a text implies
• Distinguish inference from guesswork by explaining how clues support an answer

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• Analyze how an informational author organizes ideas using headings and transitions.
• Identify how examples and statistics support the author’s purpose.
• Revise or plan informational writing to improve clarity and logical flow.

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• Identify how precise verbs and qualifiers (like likely, may, always) change the certainty of a claim.
• Use comparative terms (like greater, less, similar) to interpret relationships and avoid misreading conclusions.
• Revise sentences by replacing vague language with more precise language to support accurate understanding.

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• Analyze how an author’s plot events and character actions develop a theme or message
• Explain how dialogue, point of view, and sensory details shape the reader’s understanding
• Support claims with evidence from specific moments in a short story

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• Identify how first-person, third-person limited, and an external narrator change what readers notice and how they judge characters.
• Explain how an author’s voice, diction, and sentence style affect the mood and inferred motives.
• Use textual evidence to support claims about meaning formed from perspective shifts.

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• Analyze how transitions connect ideas and clarify relationships between sentences in informational text.
• Describe the specific relationship created by transitions such as therefore, however, for example, and in contrast.
• Use transitional words and phrases to strengthen coherence in a written response.

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• Identify the central idea of a persuasive nonfiction passage.
• Select supporting details that strengthen a claim by providing reasons, facts, examples, or elaborations.
• Distinguish essential details from interesting but nonessential information.

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• Identify a theme by tracking repeated ideas across a text
• Explain how turning points change the meaning of events and support a theme
• Support theme statements with specific evidence from the passage

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• Explain how nonprint features (labels, captions, charts, and diagrams) support the main idea in an informational text.
• Identify relationships between visual information and claims made in nearby sentences.
• Use evidence from both the text and the visual to answer comprehension questions.

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• Integrate paraphrased and quoted material into a paragraph while maintaining readability.
• Use attribution to explain whose ideas or words are being used.
• Select the best commentary that connects a source to a claim.+ Show more

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• Revise sentence fragments and run-on sentences to improve clarity while keeping the original meaning.
• Strengthen subject-verb clarity by making the subject and verb match clearly in a sentence.
• Edit pronoun references so they point to the correct noun.+ Show more

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• Revise paragraphs to improve coherence by checking that ideas connect logically.
• Identify and strengthen topic sentences so each section supports the central claim.
• Reorder sentences or evidence to match the genre’s expected structure.+ Show more

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• Use standard capitalization and correct spelling to improve clarity in writing.
• Punctuate complex sentences correctly, including using commas where appropriate.
• Apply hyphenated modifiers accurately to add precision and avoid confusion.+ Show more

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• Select evidence and details that directly support a stated claim
• Explain how evidence connects to purpose using clear commentary
• Revise vague references by replacing them with specific wording+ Show more

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• Write a research conclusion that answers the research question using synthesized findings.
• Connect major points into a unified interpretation that improves coherence.
• Revise a final draft for clarity and accuracy, including an aligned, consistently formatted reference list.+ Show more