Grade: 6 English Language Arts Highly-Leveraged Standards1 are the most essential for students to learn because they have endurance (knowledge and skills are relevant throughout a student's lifetime); leverage (knowledge and skills are used across multiple content areas) and essentiality (knowledge and skills are necessary for success in future courses or grade levels). 6.W.7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate. Specific Skills: Students will be able to research a topic using several sources to inform. Students will be able to focus research to advance inquiry skills. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; 6.W.8. and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources. Specific Skills: Students will be able to select relevant information from multiple print and digital sources. Students will be able to assess the usefulness and authority of the source. Students will be able to provide accurate bibliographic information. Students will be able to avoid plagiarism. Performance Descriptors: Standard Minimally Proficient Partially Proficient Proficient Highly Proficient For grade-appropriate, For grade-appropriate, For For grade-appropriate, low-complexity texts, low- to moderate- to high-complexity texts, the Minimally texts, the texts, the the Highly Proficient Proficient student Partially Proficient Proficient student student student Writing 6.W.7-8 conducts short conducts short research conducts short research conducts research research projects to projects to answer a projects to answer a projects to answer an answer a question, question, drawing on question, drawing on important question, drawing on one or several sources; uses several sources and drawing on several two sources; uses information from refocusing the inquiry sources and refocusing information from one multiple sources; when appropriate; the inquiry when or two sources; assesses the credibility gathers relevant appropriate; gathers paraphrases the of some sources; information from relevant, high-quality conclusions of others paraphrases the data multiple sources; information from while avoiding and conclusions of assesses the credibility multiple sources; plagiarism. others while avoiding of sources as assesses the credibility plagiarism. appropriate; quotes or of sources as paraphrases the data appropriate; the and conclusions of data and conclusions of others while avoiding others while avoiding plagiarism.
Grade: 6 English Language Arts Highly-Leveraged Standards1 are the most essential for students to learn because they have endurance (knowledge and skills are relevant throughout a student's lifetime); leverage (knowledge and skills are used across multiple content areas) and essentiality (knowledge and skills are necessary for success in future courses or grade levels). 6.W.7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate. Specific Skills: Students will be able to research a topic using several sources to inform. Students will be able to focus research to advance inquiry skills. 6.W.8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources. Specific Skills: Students will be able to select relevant information from multiple print and digital sources. Students will be able to assess the usefulness and authority of the source. Students will be able to provide accurate bibliographic information. Students will be able to avoid plagiarism. Performance Descriptors: Standard Minimally Proficient Partially Proficient Proficient Highly Proficient For grade-appropriate, low-complexity texts, the Minimally Proficient student For grade-appropriate, low- to texts, the Partially Proficient student For moderate- to texts, the Proficient student For grade-appropriate, high-complexity texts, the Highly Proficient student Writing 6.W.7-8 conducts short research projects to answer a question, drawing on one or two sources; uses information from one or two sources; paraphrases the conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism. conducts short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources; uses information from multiple sources; assesses the credibility of some sources; paraphrases the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism. conducts short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate; gathers relevant information from multiple sources; assesses the credibility of sources as appropriate; quotes or paraphrases the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism. conducts research projects to answer an important question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate; gathers relevant, high-quality information from multiple sources; assesses the credibility of sources as appropriate; the data and conclusions of others while avoiding