ELA Worksheets

Learning Objectives

• Define corroboration and explain how it strengthens a conclusion.
• Evaluate source credibility by identifying bias, incomplete coverage, and differences in purpose or method.
• Determine how claims are supported when sources agree or disagree.

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• Identify a writer’s purpose (to inform, to explain, or to persuade) and use it to guide what information to include.
• Match writing choices to a specific audience by using suitable details, tone, and examples.
• Revise sentences so they stay relevant to both purpose and audience.

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• Identify the central idea and choose evidence that directly supports it.
• Distinguish facts, examples, observations, and credible sources when selecting details.
• Explain how chosen evidence strengthens a claim or explanation and how irrelevant details weaken writing.

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• Write a persuasive defense that presents a clear central claim and explains why it matters to a specific audience.
• Anticipate and respond to objections using precise reasoning and relevant evidence.
• Use effective organizational signals (such as transitions and cause-and-effect language) to strengthen clarity and impact.

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• Identify the parts of an organized presentation: introduction, ordered body points, transitions, and conclusion.
• Use signposting and transitions to connect ideas logically across sentences and paragraphs.
• Plan and explain an organized presentation using a clear structure and brief examples.

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• Analyze how a character’s actions and relationships reveal traits and motivations.
• Explain how internal and external forces shape a character’s evolving beliefs and moral choices.
• Interpret how an author’s craft—especially changing language during escalating scenes—creates psychological depth.

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• Interpret how visuals, narration, captions, camera framing, and on-screen graphics provide evidence for media claims.
• Evaluate whether the media evidence supports (or omits) key parts of a stated claim by comparing it with textual sources.
• Synthesize verbal and visual information to write conclusions grounded in both kinds of evidence.

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• Define a counterclaim and explain why fair acknowledgment strengthens an argument.
• Identify evidence and reasoning used to respond to a counterclaim.
• Write a counterclaim response that stays aligned to the main claim and uses clear, credible support.

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• Explain how controlling ideas and supporting details work together to create coherence in a paragraph.
• Use transitions and sentence-to-sentence connections to strengthen cohesion and guide a reader through ideas.
• Revise a paragraph to improve unity, ordering, and clarity of references.

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• Make inferences about an author’s purpose and meaning in complex informational texts
• Evaluate evidence by identifying which details support specific claims
• Interpret technical vocabulary and text signals that show relationships (cause, contrast, consequence)+ Show more

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• Explain how a writer’s or speaker’s purpose and audience guide planning decisions
• Narrow a topic and set a clear communicative goal (inform, persuade, or respond)
• Use audience needs to predict tone, genre, structure, and evidence choices

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• Use a revision checklist to improve writing for correctness, coherence, and effectiveness.
• Identify and fix grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors without changing meaning.
• Improve sentence flow by strengthening logical connections and consistent references.+ Show more

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• Identify the most important ideas in a text and distinguish them from minor details.
• Write a summary that preserves the author’s overall meaning using logical transitions.
• Determine whether information is presented as a fact or an opinion and represent it accurately in a summary.

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• Explain how purposeful discussions use clarifying and follow-up questions to build meaning.
• Use idea-building strategies (paraphrase, acknowledge, and extend) to connect new points to earlier statements.
• Demonstrate respectful listening and turn-taking that supports shared understanding.

Learning Objectives

• Identify how simple, compound, and complex sentences differ and when to use each one for clarity.
• Fix sentence fragments and run-on sentences by adding missing subjects/verbs or separating run-ons.
• Use commas correctly with coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so, for, nor, yet) to improve readability.

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• Identify examples of contrast and irony in literary texts
• Interpret subtext through context clues, imagery, and dialogue patterns
• Infer underlying motives, themes, or beliefs based on textual evidence+ Show more

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• Identify and correct subject–verb agreement errors to improve sentence clarity.
• Maintain consistent verb tense within and across sentences.
• Fix common sentence problems such as fragments and run-ons using appropriate punctuation and coordination.+ Show more

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• Use commas, periods, quotation marks, and semicolons to clarify sentence boundaries and relationships between ideas in formal writing.
• Revise sentences to correct common punctuation errors involving independent clauses, introductory elements, and essential vs. nonessential information.
• Explain how punctuation choices can change meaning, especially for contrast, cause, and explanation in essays.

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• Use subject–verb agreement accurately to keep sentences clear and grammatically consistent.
• Maintain consistent verb tense within sentences and across a paragraph when writing about events or ideas.
• Revise fragmented sentences and run-ons to improve readability and logical flow.+ Show more

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• Use respectful turn-taking during group discussions by allowing others to finish and speaking clearly.
• Maintain focus on a shared topic by making statements that connect to prior comments.
• Follow discussion norms by contributing relevant ideas and summarizing what the group is learning.

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• Use purposeful discussion moves to enter a collaborative seminar respectfully and effectively.
• Demonstrate responsive turn-taking by clarifying, building on peers’ ideas, and acknowledging agreements or uncertainties.
• Use precise language (e.g., hedging, clarifying questions, and concise follow-ups) to advance complex academic discussions.

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• Identify themes and symbols borrowed from other texts
• Analyze how authors reshape borrowed elements to fit new narratives
• Compare original and transformed elements to understand meaning shifts+ Show more

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• Explain the difference between a word’s dictionary meaning and its connotation
• Identify how word choice creates tone in a paragraph or passage
• Revise writing by selecting descriptive words that fit the author’s purpose and maintain consistency

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• Use context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words in grade-level text.
• Identify the type of context clue (definition, example, restatement, contrast, or cause-and-effect).
• Use word relationships like synonyms and antonyms to confirm word meanings.

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• Explain how research projects use credible sources to answer a central question or solve a problem.
• Evaluate evidence for relevance and accuracy and synthesize findings into a coherent claim.
• Write and revise research-based responses with clear organization, transparent sourcing, and logical connections from evidence to conclusions.

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• Connect a character’s development to specific evidence from the text, such as dialogue, internal thoughts, and significant actions.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to explain how one event influences the next in a story.
• Distinguish between what a character says, what the narrator shows, and what the plot requires to stay grounded in textual support.

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• Analyze how informational texts organize ideas using headings, transitions, and paragraph structure.
• Identify how authors use evidence, examples, and background information to support claims.
• Evaluate how tone and word choice affect credibility and the urgency of a message.

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• Identify borrowed elements (themes, archetypes, or symbols) in a text and describe what stays consistent across versions.
• Analyze how changes to borrowed features affect tone, character relationships, and the reader’s understanding of conflict.
• Use evidence from a text to explain how transformation makes meaning for a new audience or time.

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• Identify how an explanatory text is organized using an introduction, body development, transitions, and a conclusion.
• Explain how facts, definitions, and examples work together to develop ideas rather than listing information.
• Use signal words and transitions to connect claims, details, and reasons in an explanatory paragraph.

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• Identify and interpret metaphors, similes, and idioms by explaining how they create figurative meaning.
• Analyze how figurative language and word relationships (synonyms, antonyms, and categories) affect tone and mood.
• Use nuance between closely related words to explain differences in emphasis, intensity, or perspective within a sentence.

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• Explain how an author’s tone influences a reader’s interpretation of a text’s values, criticisms, or grief.
• Identify how word choice, imagery, syntax, and emphasis contribute to tone and message.
• Connect tone to an author’s larger intent such as warning, celebration, fairness, or protest.

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• Understand the basic rules of capitalization in sentences.
• Identify proper nouns, titles, and the pronoun 'I' that require capitalization.
• Apply capitalization rules correctly in writing sentences and titles.+ Show more

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• Analyze how informational writers use paragraph-level structure to build logical reasoning.
• Identify how transitions, definitions, counterclaims, and sequences guide readers through premises to conclusions.
• Evaluate claims by tracing how authors narrow scope and clarify assumptions.

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• Analyze how theme is developed across related texts using evidence and careful reasoning
• Interpret how language choices and stylistic elements shape meaning and guide the reader
• Evaluate how perspective influences conclusions and identify limits of evidence in integrated arguments

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• Identify traits and actions of characters in stories.
• Understand how character actions influence story events.
• Describe characters using textual details and actions.+ Show more

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• Revise a draft so sentences clearly support a central message (main idea).
• Improve coherence by ordering ideas in the most effective sequence and adding missing explanations.
• Strengthen clarity by reducing unnecessary repetition and clarifying confusing sections.+ Show more

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• Explain what a comma splice is and how it affects meaning
• Choose the best punctuation fix for two independent clauses
• Use commas correctly for lists and interrupting elements in informational writing

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• Identify how first-person and third-person narration affect point of view and narrative distance.
• Analyze reliability by noting what a narrator includes, excludes, or emphasizes.
• Explain how an author’s word choice and structure reveal perspective in informational text.+ Show more

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• Integrate information from visuals (charts, diagrams, maps, timelines) with surrounding text to answer questions.
• Interpret labels, legends, and key data in a graphic and connect them to the author’s explanation.
• Explain how visuals and text work together when they support the same idea or provide different types of information.

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• Explain how audience, purpose, and context affect speaking choices such as vocabulary level, tone, and examples.
• Revise a short spoken message to better fit a specific audience and communicative situation.
• Identify signals of tone and complexity that show audience adaptation in real-world messages.

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• Identify the claim and opposing views (counterclaims) in an argument and explain why they are relevant.
• Evaluate how effectively a writer responds to counterclaims with fair treatment and logical rebuttal.
• Use credible evidence to strengthen a rebuttal and avoid unsupported generalizations.+ Show more

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• Use sentence variety by combining simple ideas with dependent clauses to add clarity and detail
• Match sentence purpose to audience by varying punctuation and structure (statements, questions, and transitions)
• Improve pacing and coherence by combining and reordering independent clauses for emphasis+ Show more

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• Analyze how informational and persuasive texts organize ideas using headings, transitions, and supporting details.
• Distinguish claims, evidence, and background information in nonfiction and persuasive writing.
• Evaluate how tone and word choice affect credibility, urgency, and the reader’s understanding.

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• Clarify the purpose and intended audience before creating a media text
• Write a key message statement and choose supporting details that match the message and tone
• Plan how content organization will create an intended emotional or informational effect for the audience

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• Identify the main purpose of a spoken message.
• Analyze how an introduction states the central claim.
• Evaluate supporting points and their logical sequence.+ Show more

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• Understand how to formulate clarifying questions during discussions.
• Identify main ideas and supporting details in community-related texts.
• Practice constructing follow-up questions to deepen understanding.+ Show more

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• Explain how roots and affixes contribute to word meaning patterns in Grade 6 vocabulary
• Identify common prefixes and suffixes and infer meaning from them
• Use knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to support accurate spelling and interpretation of complex words

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• Explain how evidence synthesis builds a coherent understanding by organizing themes across sources.
• Compare findings from multiple texts by considering methods, context, and evidence strength.
• Distinguish between statements supported by evidence and statements based on interpretation.