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. L. 5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context. Specific Skills: Students will be able to define terms for common figures of speech. Students will be able to identify the use of common figures of speech in a text. Students will be able to interpret the meanings of common figures of speech in the text. b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words. Specific Skills: Students will be able to identify word relationships. Students will be able to determine how word relationships contribute to the structure of the text. c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty). Specific Skills: Students will be able to explain connotation and how it affects the nuances of words with similar definitions. Performance Level Descriptors: Standard Minimally Proficient Partially Proficient Proficient Highly Proficient For grade-appropriate, For grade-appropriate, For grade-appropriate, For 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 Language 6.L.5 demonstrates a demonstrates a demonstrates demonstrates limited understanding understanding of understanding of command of figurative of figurative language figurative language, figurative language, language, word and word word relationships, and word relationships, and relationships, and relationships in word nuances in word nuances in word nuances in word meanings, including meanings, including meanings, including meanings, including in identifying figures identifying figures of interpreting figures of interpreting complex of speech and using speech in context, speech in context, figures of speech in the relationship using the relationship using the relationship context, evaluating the between particular between particular between particular relationship between
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. L. 5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context. Specific Skills: Students will be able to define terms for common figures of speech. Students will be able to identify the use of common figures of speech in a text. Students will be able to interpret the meanings of common figures of speech in the text. b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words. Specific Skills: Students will be able to identify word relationships. Students will be able to determine how word relationships contribute to the structure of the text. c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty). Specific Skills: Students will be able to explain connotation and how it affects the nuances of words with similar definitions. Performance Level 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 grade-appropriate, moderate- to texts, the Proficient student For high-complexity texts, the Highly Proficient student Language 6.L.5 demonstrates a limited understanding of figurative language and word relationships in word meanings, including in identifying figures of speech and using the relationship between particular demonstrates a understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings, including identifying figures of speech in context, using the relationship between particular demonstrates understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings, including interpreting figures of speech in context, using the relationship between particular demonstrates command of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings, including interpreting complex figures of speech in context, evaluating the relationship between
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