AISL Grade 6 Benchmarks in English Language Arts
(Revised June, 2010)
- AISL.ELA.01 READING-FLUENCY: Students will read fluently using the skills and strategies of the reading process.
- AISL.ELA.01.G6.01 Extract main ideas and supporting details from informational text
- AISL.ELA.01.G6.02 Make within-text and beyond-text inferences
- AISL.ELA.01.G6.03 Use a combination of the following strategies: prediction, rereading, reflection, graphic organizers, outlines.
- AISL.ELA.01.G6.04 Read with fluency and expression
- AISL.ELA.02 READING-COMPREHENSION: Students will comprehend, respond to, and analyze a wide variety of literary texts.
- AISL.ELA.02.G6.01 Express opinions, judgments, or insights about the text.
- AISL.ELA.02.G6.02 Recognize that personal likes/dislikes may create errors in judgment and influence thinking.
- AISL.ELA.02.G6.03 Recognize statements as facts or opinions.
- AISL.ELA.02.G6.04 Identify and read a variety of genre including: narrative poems and ballads, plays, science fiction, mysteries, nonfiction, survival/adventure, the novel, mythology, Newberry books, essays, and editorials.
- AISL.ELA.02.G6.05 Define and identify the different parts of a novel (problem, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution).
- AISL.ELA.02.G6.06 Identify and comprehend various expository paragraph structures: main idea/detail, cause/effect, descriptive, and compare/contrast.
- AISL.ELA.03 READING-STRATEGIES: Students will apply skills and strategies appropriate for decoding reading of unfamiliar words in a variety of texts
- AISL.ELA.03.G6.01 Use knowledge of word relationships, as well as historical and literary context clues, to determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words
- AISL.ELA.03.G6.02 Use idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes to infer the literal and figurative meanings of phrases
- AISL.ELA.03.G6.03 Use the dictionary as a tool for reading (e.g., pronunciation, parts of speech, etc.)
- AISL.ELA.04 WRITING-MECHANICS: Students will write using the appropriate conventions of the English language.
- AISL.ELA.04.G6.01 Edit own and others work for: capitals, ending punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, exclamation marks, paragraph indentation, and spelling.
- AISL.ELA.04.G6.02 Display appropriate spelling, punctuation, and usage.
- AISL.ELA.04.G6.03 Understand and use ambiguity and figurative language: personification, imagery (simile, metaphor), and idioms.
- AISL.ELA.04.G6.04 Use transition words and adverbs.
- AISL.ELA.04.G6.05 Combine sentences to make complex and compound sentences.
- AISL.ELA.05 WRITING-CONTENT: Students will write with clarity and coherence in a wide variety of contexts.
- AISL.ELA.05.G6.01 Make a plan for writing (brainstorm, web, chart, draw, free write, story map, outline, and poetry forms)
- AISL.ELA.05.G6.02 Revise own and others’ work for: story elements, sequential development, paragraph structure, description/elaboration, point of view, consistency of tense, awareness of audience
- AISL.ELA.05.G6.03 Write letter, poems, play, journal, two-page research report, mystery, realistic fiction, and narratives
- AISL.ELA.05.G6.04 Imagine self as one of story characters and rewrite part or the entire story from that character’s point of view
- AISL.ELA.05.G6.05 Identify story plot, rename characters, change number or types of characters, change nature of characters, change events
- AISL.ELA.05.G6.06 Move plot forward or backward in time, relocate plot in another place, add other characters.
- AISL.ELA.06 LISTENING: Students will listen and respond critically to oral communication.
- AISL.ELA.06.G6.01 Listen for pleasure, content of spoken language, complex directions, and information.
- AISL.ELA.06.G6.02 Listen to recognize: sequence, main idea/details, cause/effect, fact/opinion and logical/illogical statements.
- AISL.ELA.06.G6.03 Ask relevant questions.
- AISL.ELA.07 SPEAKING: Students will speak with clarity and coherence in a wide variety of contexts.
- AISL.ELA.07.G6.01 Discuss literature and writing in small groups
- AISL.ELA.07.G6.02 Adapt to audience reactions
- AISL.ELA.07.G6.03 Plan, organize, and deliver various oral presentations: speeches, reports, debates, dramatic presentations, summaries, recitations (poetry, selections from literature), and story telling
- AISL.ELA.07.G6.04 Adapt speech and volume to a variety of audiences: peers, parents, teachers, other adults, and older and younger students
- AISL.ELA.08 RESEARCH: Students will use a variety of resources and research skills
- AISL.ELA.08.G6.01 Judge the relative worth of information sources on the same topic.
- AISL.ELA.08.G6.02 Achieve effective balance between research information and original ideas.
- AISL.ELA.08.G6.03 Quote or paraphrase information sources, citing them with author, source, and internet address.
- AISL.ELA.09 MEDIA-COMPREHENSION: Students will respond to, analyze and comprehend the content of a variety of media.
- AISL.ELA.09.G6.01 Evaluate various techniques used by visual image-makers e.g. graphic artists, illustrators, news photographers to communicate information and affect impressions and opinions.
- AISL.ELA.09.G6.02 Identify when a medium is being an information provider, entertainer, persuader, and transmitter of culture.
- AISL.ELA.09.G6.03 Understand that sometimes media presentations provide misleading information.
- AISL.ELA.10 MEDIA-CREATION: Students will create a variety of media
- AISL.ELA.10.G6.01 Independently create a product using media (eg. power-point, poster, blog, newsletter etc.)