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Utah Standards

Utah 6th Grade ELA Standards

All 18 Utah English language arts standards for 6th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Utah State Board of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

18 standards

Speaking and Listening

3 standards
6.SL.1
Take part in discussions on topics, texts, and issues, posing questions, respecting views from many sides, spotting contradictions, and backing replies with reasoning.
6.SL.2
Interpret trustworthy information from different formats and media to make well-informed decisions.
6.SL.3
Fit language, grammar, organization, and delivery to the purpose, audience, and setting, using data displays and digital media to inform and engage listeners.

Reading

11 standards
6.R.4
Read sixth-grade texts accurately and at a smooth pace so they understand them well.
6.R.5
Cite evidence from a text to back up an analysis of what it says outright and what can be inferred from it.
6.R.6
Determine a theme or main idea in texts from diverse cultures, explain how characters handle conflict or how details support the idea, and summarize the text.
6.R.7
Compare characters, settings, or events in stories using details, and analyze how a key person, event, or idea is introduced and developed in an informational text.
6.R.8
Interpret figurative language, connotations, and figures of speech, and analyze how word choices, including multiple-meaning words, shape a text's meaning and tone.
6.R.9
Consistently use context, Greek and Latin roots and affixes, and reference tools to pin down the meaning, pronunciation, or part of speech of unknown words.
6.R.10
Analyze how one part of a text, like a stanza, scene, paragraph, or chapter, fits the whole and helps build the theme, plot, setting, or main idea.
6.R.11
Explain how an author's perspective shapes a narrator's or speaker's point of view, and analyze how an author sets their position apart from others' views.
6.R.12
Compare how print, digital, and other media versions help readers understand a text, like reading a story versus hearing an audiobook.
6.R.13
Judge an argument by sorting its claims into those with solid reasons and evidence behind them and those without support.
6.R.14
Compare how texts in different genres or media treat similar themes and topics, and compare how two authors present the same events.

Writing

4 standards
6.W.1
Write arguments that back logically grouped claims with clear reasons and credible evidence, link them with transitions, and conclude in a style suited to the audience.
6.W.2
Write to explain a topic using structures like comparison or cause and effect, facts, quotations, transitions, precise terms, and graphics, ending with a conclusion.
6.W.3
Write a real or imagined story that sets the context, develops characters with dialogue and pacing, signals time shifts with transitions, and ends with a resolution.
6.W.4
Do short research projects to answer a question or build an argument, combining credible sources, quoting or paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism, and citing them.

The official Utah documents

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