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Colorado Standards

Colorado 6th Grade ELA Standards

All 10 Colorado English language arts standards for 6th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Colorado Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

10 standards

Oral Expression and Listening

2 standards
RW.6.1.1
Join discussions prepared and with set goals, answer questions in detail, weigh different viewpoints, interpret media, and separate a speaker's supported claims from unsupported ones.
RW.6.1.2
Present claims and findings in a logical order with useful details, add images or sound to clarify, and switch to formal English when the setting calls for it.

Reading for All Purposes

3 standards
RW.6.2.1
Analyze stories, plays and poems by citing evidence, tracing theme and plot, showing how one scene fits the whole and how the narrator's view is built, and comparing genres.
RW.6.2.2
Analyze nonfiction by citing evidence, tracking a central idea, explaining how one section fits the whole and the author's purpose, judging claims, and comparing two authors' accounts.
RW.6.2.3
Work out new words with context, Greek and Latin roots and dictionaries, interpret personification and other figures of speech, and weigh word shades, like thrifty versus stingy.

Writing and Composition

4 standards
RW.6.3.1
Write an argument that states a claim, backs it with clear reasons and evidence from credible sources, links ideas with transitions, keeps a formal tone, and ends with a conclusion.
RW.6.3.2
Write to explain a topic using an organizing plan like compare and contrast, facts, quotations and examples, clear transitions, precise subject words, a formal tone, and a conclusion.
RW.6.3.3
Write a real or imagined story that sets up a narrator and context, builds events with dialogue, pacing and sensory language, uses devices like alliteration, and ends naturally.
RW.6.3.4
Plan, draft and revise clear writing, fix pronoun case, shifts and vague pronouns, set off extra information with commas, parentheses or dashes, and vary sentences with a steady tone.

Research Inquiry and Design

1 standard
RW.6.4.1
Research a question in several print and digital sources, judge their credibility, quote or paraphrase while crediting them, and present what you find.

The official Colorado documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Colorado's standards, not the official wording, which Colorado Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.