Support the Standards
There are some common standards teachers focus on in sixth grade. These charts show three basic categories and how you can support these standards at home. Talk to your child’s teacher about your child’s progress in meeting them. Use the tips to help support your child’s literacy progress! Key Ideas & Details What happened in this text? Why?
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TIP TO SUPPORT
Ask your child specific questions about what he or she is reading, encouraging him or her to support answers with proof from the text. Practice looking for clues to figure out something that’s not clearly stated. Ask your child to give you a summary of a text he or she has read using only key details or facts—no opinions. Ask your child which key details in the text identify the theme or main idea. Discuss how a story or nonfiction text flows from one scene or event to the next. Ask your child how characters change as the plot unfolds. When your child reads nonfiction, ask how ideas in the text are introduced and what details are used to expand on them.
Use quotes or inferences from a text to answer questions or support statements. Use key details to identify the theme or main idea of a text and summarize a text objectively. Describe in detail how a text’s plot, ideas, and characters are intro- duced and change from beginning to end.
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Family Guide to Literacy | Grade 6
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