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Louisiana Standards

Louisiana 6th Grade ELA Standards

All 41 Louisiana English language arts standards for 6th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Louisiana Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

41 standards

Reading Standards for Literature

9 standards
RL.6.1
Cite relevant evidence from a story or poem to back up an analysis of what it states directly and what you can infer from it.
RL.6.2
Figure out a story's theme, show which details carry it, and summarize the plot without adding your own opinions.
Common Core RL.6.2
RL.6.3
Trace how a plot unfolds episode by episode and how the characters respond or change on the way to the ending.
Common Core RL.6.3
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 sentence, chapter, scene or stanza fits into the whole work and helps build its theme, setting or plot.
Common Core RL.6.5
RL.6.6
Explain how an author builds the narrator's or speaker's point of view through what they notice, say and leave out.
Common Core RL.6.6
RL.6.7
Compare reading a story, play or poem with hearing or watching a performance of it, noting what you imagine on the page versus what you see and hear.
Common Core RL.6.7
RL.6.9
Compare how texts in different forms or genres, like a poem and a story or a historical novel and a fantasy, handle a similar theme.
Common Core RL.6.9
RL.6.10
Read and understand stories, plays and poems written for grades 6 to 8 by the end of the year, with help on the hardest ones.
Common Core RL.6.10

Reading Standards for Informational Text

10 standards
RI.6.1
Back up an analysis of a nonfiction text with relevant quotes, covering what it says outright and what you can infer, like an article's unstated reason.
RI.6.2
Name the central idea of a nonfiction text, show how the details build it, and summarize it without mixing in your own judgments.
Common Core RI.6.2
RI.6.3
Explain how a nonfiction text introduces a key person, event or idea and then builds it out with examples or anecdotes.
Common Core RI.6.3
RI.6.4
Work out the meaning of words in a nonfiction text, including figurative uses, the associations a word carries and technical terms like circuit.
Common Core RI.6.4
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 purpose or stance in a nonfiction text and point to the places where it shows.
Common Core RI.6.6
RI.6.7
Pull together information from words, pictures, charts and other formats to build one clear understanding of a topic.
Common Core RI.6.7
RI.6.8
Follow an author's argument claim by claim and sort the claims backed by reasons and evidence from the ones that are not.
Common Core RI.6.8
RI.6.9
Compare how two authors present the same events, like a memoir and a biography about the same person.
Common Core RI.6.9
RI.6.10
Read and understand literary nonfiction such as memoirs, essays and speeches written for grades 6 to 8 by the end of the year, with help on the hardest ones.
Common Core RI.6.10

Writing Standards

10 standards
W.6.1
Write an argument with a clear claim, reasons and evidence from credible sources, linking words, a formal style and a conclusion that follows from it.
Common Core W.6.1
W.6.2
Write an informative piece that introduces a topic, organizes facts, definitions and examples under headings or charts where they help, and ends with a conclusion.
Common Core W.6.2
W.6.3
Write a true or made-up story that sets the scene, uses dialogue, pacing and sensory detail, moves clearly through time and ends with a fitting conclusion.
Common Core W.6.3
W.6.4
Shape a lab report, history essay or technical write-up so its organization and style fit the assignment, its purpose and its readers.
Common Core WHST.6-8.4
W.6.5
With some help from classmates and adults, plan, revise, edit, rewrite or try a new approach to strengthen writing, like rewriting an opening to hook readers.
W.6.6
Use technology to produce and publish grade-level writing on your own or with others, like a shared online document or presentation.
W.6.7
Run a short research project that answers a question from several sources and narrows the question when the findings call for it.
Common Core W.6.7
W.6.8
Gather information from print and online sources, judge whether each source is trustworthy, quote or paraphrase without plagiarizing and list where it came from.
Common Core W.6.8
W.6.9
Use evidence from sixth grade literature and literary nonfiction to support analysis, reflection and research, like tracing the claims in a speech.
W.6.10
Write regularly, from a report built over several days to a journal entry finished in one class, for different subjects, purposes and readers.
Common Core W.3.10

Speaking and Listening Standards

6 standards
SL.6.1
Come to a discussion having read the material, follow the group's rules and roles, ask and answer questions in detail, and restate others' points to show you listened.
Common Core SL.6.1
SL.6.2
Explain what a chart, video, speech or other source adds to the topic the class is studying.
Common Core SL.6.2
SL.6.3
Lay out a speaker's argument claim by claim and tell which claims are backed by reasons and evidence and which are not.
Common Core SL.6.3
SL.6.4
Present claims and findings in a logical order with facts and details that spotlight the main ideas, making eye contact and speaking clearly and loudly enough.
Common Core SL.6.4
SL.6.5
Add graphics, images, music or sound and visual displays to a presentation where they make the information clearer.
Common Core SL.6.5
SL.6.6
Adjust your speech for different settings, audiences and tasks, showing command of formal English when it is called for, like in a class presentation.

Language Standards

6 standards
L.6.1
Print many letters, use everyday nouns, verbs and little words like in and on, make plurals like dogs and wishes, ask with who and where, and speak in full sentences.
Common Core L.K.1
L.6.2
Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the word I, name the period and question mark, and spell simple words the way they sound, like kat for cat.
Common Core L.K.2
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 an unfamiliar word from context clues, Greek and Latin roots like aud in audience and audible, or a dictionary, then check the guess.
Common Core L.6.4
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
L.6.6
Learn and use grade-level academic and subject words, and look up any word that matters to understanding or expressing an idea.
Common Core L.6.6

The official Louisiana documents

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