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Kentucky Standards

Kentucky 6th Grade ELA Standards

All 31 Kentucky English language arts standards for 6th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Kentucky Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

31 standards

Reading Standards for Literature

9 standards
RL.6.1
Back up every claim about a story or poem with a quoted line or a specific detail, including claims about what the author only hints at.
Common Core RL.6.1
RL.6.2
Show how a story or poem builds its theme, backing the point with exact quotes from the text and short summaries of key parts.
RL.6.3
Trace how a story's or play's plot moves through a chain of episodes, and tell how the characters react or change on the way to the ending.
RL.6.4
Work out what words and phrases mean in a story or poem, including figurative uses and the feelings a word carries, and explain how one word choice affects the tone.
Common Core RL.6.4
RL.6.5
Explain how one part of a text, like a single sentence, a chapter, a scene or a stanza, fits into the way the whole piece is built.
RL.6.6
Explain the ways an author shapes the point of view of the narrator or speaker, like through what that voice notices, thinks and says.
RL.6.7
Tell how reading a story or poem in print is alike and different from watching or hearing it presented, like as a film, audiobook or live show.
RL.6.9
Compare and contrast how different kinds of texts, like a novel, a poem and a fable, handle the same theme or topic.
RL.6.10
Read complex 6th grade literature on their own as a habit, building and using background knowledge and picking from many reading strategies to understand and analyze it.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

10 standards
RI.6.1
Back up every claim about a story or poem with a quoted line or a specific detail, including claims about what the author only hints at.
Common Core RL.6.1
RI.6.2
Show how a nonfiction text develops its central ideas by pointing to specific details or by giving a summary free of personal opinion.
RI.6.3
Look closely at how an author builds up a key person, event or idea from the start of a nonfiction text to its end.
RI.6.4
Work out figurative, emotional and technical meanings of words in an article, and explain how one chosen word, like calling a crowd a mob, shifts the meaning and tone.
Common Core RI.7.4
RI.6.5
Explain what job a given sentence, paragraph or section does in a nonfiction text and how it moves the ideas forward.
Common Core RI.6.5
RI.6.6
Figure out an author's point of view and reason for writing a nonfiction text, and explain what in the text reveals them, like word choice or chosen facts.
RI.6.7
Combine information from print and from other formats, like video, audio, maps or charts, to build a full, clear understanding of a topic or issue.
RI.6.8
Identify and judge the argument and claims in a nonfiction text, sorting the claims backed by reasons and evidence from the ones left unsupported.
RI.6.9
Compare and contrast the way two or more authors present similar events, like a memoir and a biography describing the same life.
RI.6.10
Read complex 6th grade nonfiction like articles and histories on their own as a habit, drawing on background knowledge and flexible reading strategies to understand and analyze it.

Composition

7 standards
C.6.1
Write formal arguments backing a claim with clear reasons and credible evidence, address opposing claims, close with a strong ending, and revise with some guidance.
C.6.2
Write formal informative pieces that preview a topic, organize it by methods like comparison or cause and effect, develop it with facts, quotes and graphics, and revise with some guidance.
C.6.3
Write true or made-up stories that set the scene and narrator, use dialogue, pacing, sensory details and clear time transitions, wrap up well, and revise with guidance.
C.6.4
Use digital tools to make and publish work, share and team up with others online, and credit sources in MLA or APA style.
C.6.5
Carry out short research projects that answer a question by pulling from several sources.
C.6.6
Pull facts from several print and online sources, check each one's credibility, and quote or paraphrase them to reflect or interpret, citing in MLA or APA to avoid plagiarism.
C.6.7
Write often, both in long projects over weeks and in quick pieces done in one sitting, for many tasks, purposes and readers.

Language

5 standards
L.6.1
In speech and writing, fix vague or wrong pronouns, catch shifts in pronoun number or person, and spot differences from General American English to build academic language.
L.6.2
When writing, use commas, parentheses and dashes to set off extra information, like a side comment, and find and fix spelling mistakes.
L.6.3
Notice the difference between formal and casual English, like Good morning, Mrs. Lee versus Hey, and choose which fits the moment.
Common Core L.2.3
L.6.4
Work out new and multiple-meaning words with context, Greek and Latin word parts like bio, and dictionaries, and learn academic and subject words to use accurately.
L.6.5
Explain a nonliteral phrase like take steps, name someone who is friendly to link a word to real life, and rank knew, believed and suspected by how sure they are.
Common Core L.3.5

The official Kentucky documents

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