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Florida 6th Grade ELA B.E.S.T. Standards

All 24 Florida English language arts standards for 6th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is one click away under each one.

24 standards

Reading

12 standards
Reading Prose and Poetry
ELA.6.R.1.1
Explain how the way characters help, clash with or sway one another drives a story's plot, like a feud between friends that starts the main conflict.
Official wording
Analyze how the interaction between characters contributes to the development of a plot in a literary text.
ELA.6.R.1.2
Trace how a story's message, whether spelled out or only hinted at, takes shape from the opening pages to the ending, like a lesson about loyalty.
Official wording
Analyze the development of stated or implied theme(s) throughout a literary text.
ELA.6.R.1.3
Explain how a story told by several narrators, or one that switches from first person to third, changes what readers know and how they feel.
Official wording
Explain the influence of multiple narrators and/or shifts in point of view in a literary text.
ELA.6.R.1.4
Describe how a poem's form, like a sonnet or a villanelle, shapes both what it means and how it sounds.
Official wording
Describe the impact of various poetic forms on meaning and style.
Reading Informational Text
ELA.6.R.2.1
Explain what one part or feature of a nonfiction text, like a heading, caption or chart, adds to the reader's understanding.
Official wording
Explain how individual text sections and/or features convey meaning in texts.
ELA.6.R.2.2
Work out the main point of a nonfiction text, stated or only implied, and show how facts, details and quotations build it up along the way.
Official wording
Analyze the central idea(s), implied or explicit, and its development throughout a text.
ELA.6.R.2.3
Compare why different authors wrote about the same event or topic, like one news story meant to inform and another meant to persuade.
Official wording
Analyze authors’ purpose(s) in multiple accounts of the same event or topic.
ELA.6.R.2.4
Follow how an author builds an argument step by step and name the kind of reasoning behind it, like deductive or inductive reasoning.
Official wording
Track the development of an argument, identifying the types of reasoning used.
Reading Across Genres
ELA.6.R.3.1
Explain how figures of speech, like similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole, set a text's tone and shape its meaning.
Official wording
Explain how figurative language contributes to tone and meaning in text(s).
ELA.6.R.3.2
Restate what a sixth grade text says in your own words, keeping the author's meaning without copying the sentences.
Official wording
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
ELA.6.R.3.3
Compare and contrast how writers from different eras, like a colonial author and a modern one, handle the same or a related topic.
Official wording
Compare and contrast how authors from different time periods address the same or related topics.
ELA.6.R.3.4
Spot where a writer appeals to logic, credibility or emotion in a text, the appeals known as logos, ethos and pathos.
Official wording
Identify rhetorical appeals in a text.

Communication

9 standards
Communicating Through Writing
ELA.6.C.1.2
Write true personal stories or made-up ones with storytelling techniques like dialogue and description, exact word choices and figures of speech.
Official wording
Write personal or fictional narratives using narrative techniques, precise words and phrases, and figurative language.
ELA.6.C.1.3
Write an argument that states a claim and backs it with sound reasons and evidence from sources, explained fully and tied together with varied transitions.
Official wording
Write and support a claim using logical reasoning, relevant evidence from sources, elaboration, and a logical organizational structure with varied transitions.
ELA.6.C.1.4
Write informational pieces that explain or analyze facts gathered from several sources, organized clearly with well-developed details and varied transitions.
Official wording
Write expository texts to explain and/or analyze information from multiple sources, using a logical organizational structure, relevant elaboration, and varied transitions.
ELA.6.C.1.5
Make writing stronger by planning it first and then revising and editing it, using feedback from teachers and classmates.
Official wording
Improve writing by planning, revising, and editing, considering feedback from adults and peers.
Communicating Orally
ELA.6.C.2.1
Give a talk with ideas in a sensible order, using posture and facial expression, a good volume, clear pronunciation and a steady pace.
Official wording
Present information orally, in a logical sequence, using nonverbal cues, appropriate volume, clear pronunciation, and appropriate pacing.
Following Conventions
ELA.6.C.3.1
Write with correct sixth grade grammar, punctuation, capitalization and spelling, like using gerunds and infinitives and fixing vague pronouns.
Official wording
Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
Researching
ELA.6.C.4.1
Research a question using several trustworthy sources, and adjust the question when the findings point in a new direction.
Official wording
Conduct research to answer a question, drawing on multiple reliable and valid sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Creating and Collaborating
ELA.6.C.5.1
Add several kinds of media, like pictures, audio or drawings, to a speech or written piece to keep the audience interested.
Official wording
Integrate diverse digital media to enhance audience engagement in oral or written tasks.
ELA.6.C.5.2
Produce writing with digital tools, like drafting, typing and formatting an essay in a word processor.
Official wording
Use digital tools to produce writing.

Vocabulary

3 standards
Finding Meaning
ELA.6.V.1.1
Use academic words that show up across subjects, like analyze, evidence and summarize, on purpose when speaking and writing.
Official wording
Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.
ELA.6.V.1.2
Use Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes to figure out unfamiliar words, like tele meaning far in telescope and telephone.
Official wording
Apply knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes to determine meanings of words and phrases in grade-level content.
ELA.6.V.1.3
Work out what words and phrases mean, both their dictionary sense and the feelings they suggest, using context, word relationships, references or prior knowledge.
Official wording
Apply knowledge of context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the connotative and denotative meaning of words and phrases, appropriate to grade level.

The official Florida documents

Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, Florida Department of Education.

The plain-English lines are EMStudio's own explanations, shown beside the official wording. They are not part of the standards.