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South Carolina Standards

South Carolina 6th Grade ELA Standards

All 33 South Carolina English language arts standards for 6th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in South Carolina Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

33 standards

Overarching Expectations

6 standards
ELA.6.OE.1
Sustain long sessions of reading and writing for classes and personal goals, like a novel study or an ongoing reflective journal.
ELA.6.OE.2
Gain, polish, and share knowledge across print, audio, visual, digital, and interactive media, like a documentary, an infographic, or a blog.
ELA.6.OE.3
Use text clues and background knowledge to infer meaning, like figuring out a narrator's hidden motive.
ELA.6.OE.4
Collaborate in groups and listen actively, like summarizing a teammate's view before offering a different one.
ELA.6.OE.5
Support reasoning with specific text evidence, like quoting a passage that proves a claim about a character's motives.
ELA.6.OE.6
Produce high-quality work in an accepted format, like an essay with an introduction, body paragraphs, and a works cited list.

Applications of Reading

14 standards
ELA.6.AOR.1.1
Analyze how key events and vivid descriptions advance a story's plot, show what its characters are like, or deepen its meaning.
ELA.6.AOR.1.2
Explain how metaphors, similes, and other figures of speech shape a text's mood, tone, and meaning, like a storm image that builds dread.
ELA.6.AOR.2.1
Analyze how key details develop one or more themes across a story, like repeated acts of kindness that build a message about empathy.
ELA.6.AOR.2.2
Analyze how supporting details build one or more main ideas across a nonfiction text, like statistics that develop a point about ocean pollution.
ELA.6.AOR.3.1
Explain what changes when a story has several narrators or switches viewpoints, like chapters that alternate between two siblings.
ELA.6.AOR.4.1
Analyze a firsthand and a secondhand account of one event, and how their different viewpoints shape what each says and how it says it.
ELA.6.AOR.5.1
Analyze how a single part of a text, like a key scene, chapter, or stanza, fits the whole and helps build its theme, setting, or plot.
ELA.6.AOR.5.2
Analyze how one section of a nonfiction text, like a single paragraph or chapter, fits into and supports the structure of the whole.
ELA.6.AOR.5.3
Trace how an author builds an argument, naming the kinds of reasoning used and any appeals to credibility, emotion, or logic, known as ethos, pathos, and logos.
ELA.6.AOR.6.1
Summarize or paraphrase grade-level texts to understand them better, like condensing a chapter into a few sentences of one's own.
ELA.6.AOR.7.1
Clarify unknown and multiple-meaning words using sentence context, a word's job in the sentence, background knowledge, and dictionaries or glossaries.
ELA.6.AOR.8.1
Interpret figurative, connotative, and technical language, like how a metaphor works, how words relate, and how frugal and stingy feel different.
ELA.6.AOR.9.1
Apply prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots to work out new words or sharpen meanings in grade-level subjects, like bio in biology.
ELA.6.AOR.10.1
Analyze a text or topic in different media, like reading a speech and hearing it recorded, and explain how each version affects the audience.

Research

5 standards
ELA.6.R.1.1
Carry out short and longer research projects, asking questions about a topic and using print and digital sources to narrow the focus.
ELA.6.R.1.2
Weigh how credible each source is and use the most reliable ones, like preferring a government science site over a forum post.
ELA.6.R.1.3
Decide which sources and details actually fit the research topic, like dropping an article about a different time period.
ELA.6.R.1.4
Organize research findings in a logical order, like an outline grouped by causes, effects, and solutions.
ELA.6.R.1.5
Give credit to sources in research to avoid plagiarism, like a works cited entry for each website used.

Written and Oral Communications

8 standards
ELA.6.C.1.1
Write an argument with a clear claim, logical reasons, facts or data from credible sources, a nod to an opposing view, transitions, and a fitting conclusion.
ELA.6.C.2.1
Write informative essays that introduce and organize a topic, develop it with facts, quotes, and examples from sources, link ideas with transitions, and conclude.
ELA.6.C.3.1
Write well-organized real or imagined narratives with clear context, characters, dialogue, description, precise and figurative language, and an ending that fits.
ELA.6.C.4.1
Write varied, correct paragraphs, like setting off extra clauses with commas or dashes, hyphenating a ten-minute break, fixing vague pronouns, and mixing sentence types.
ELA.6.C.5.1
Make writing clearer by planning, editing, and using feedback from teachers and classmates to revise what it says.
ELA.6.C.7.1
Present reports, opinions, stories, or experiences in a logical order with relevant details, adjusting voice and eye contact and adding graphics or media.
ELA.6.C.8.1
Join structured group talks, asking questions that build on classmates' ideas and reflecting on viewpoints different from one's own.
ELA.6.C.9.1
Judge a speaker's argument in a recording, video, live talk, or transcript, sorting valid from invalid claims and noting the message, media, and voice.

The official South Carolina documents

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