West Virginia Content s (Grade 6) This chart correlates the West Virginia Content s to the chapters of The Essential Guide to Language, Writing, and Literature, Red Level. RLA.6.1.1 Students will know the defining characteristics, build background knowledge and use reading skills to understand a variety of West Virginia, national and international authors (e.g., fiction; nonfiction; myths; poems; fantasies; biographies; autobiographies; science fiction; tall tales; supernatural tales). RLA.6.1.10 Students will use resource materials (e.g., dictionary; glossary; thesaurus) to determine the meaning of unknown words or multiple meaning words. RLA.6.1.11 Students will use connotation and denotation to understand meaning. RLA.6.1.12 Students will use root words, prefixes, and suffixes to spell words, change word meanings and generate new words appropriate to grade level. RLA.6.1.13 Students will spell commonly misspelled words, easily confused words and words with irregular endings across the curriculum. RLA.6.1.3 Students will determine theme and locate supporting details in a literary passage and across the curriculum. RLA.6.1.4 Students will analyze text to determine transitional words/language. RLA.6.1.5 Students will use comprehension skills (e.g., draw conclusions; interpret meaning). RLA.6.1.6 Students will determine the elements of literature (e.g. external conflict; mood) to construct meaning and recognize author's and/or reader's purpose. RLA.6.1.7 Students will identify figurative language in text (e.g., simile; metaphor; personification). RLA.6.1.8 Students will explain text connections to self, to other text and to the world for understanding a literary passage. Chapter 36 Spelling Strategies Chapter 36 Spelling Strategies
Essential Guide to Language, Writing, and Literature, Red Level / West Virginia Content s Correlation - p. 2 RLA.6.1.9 Students will identify and classify types of poetry that use inversion, rhyme and rhythm (e.g., diamante; shape; haiku; limerick; name poems; bio poems; cinquain; and quantrain). RLA.6.2.1 Students will use pre-writing and drafting strategies (e.g., drawing; clustering; brainstorming; discussion) to generate topics and plan approaches to writing tasks. RLA.6.2.10 Students will identify action, helping and linking verbs while correctly using verb tense and subject/verb agreement in simple and compound sentences. RLA.6.2.11 Students will use adjectives and adverbs in comparative and superlative forms. RLA.6.2.12 Students will compose sentences that contain compound subjects and compound verbs. Chapter 3 Verbs Chapter 11 Using Verbs Chapter 13 Subject and Verb Agreement Chapter 4 Adjectives and Adverbs Chapter 14 Using Adjectives and Adverbs
Essential Guide to Language, Writing, and Literature, Red Level / West Virginia Content s Correlation - p. 3 RLA.6.2.13 Students will organize information by combining predicates, modifiers, phrases and/or clauses and sentences. RLA.6.2.14 Students will identify and correct run-on sentences, sentence fragments and redundant words/ sentences. RLA.6.2.18 Students will identify title, author, subject, call number, publisher and copyright of resources using the card catalog, either hard copy or computer database. RLA.6.2.19 Students will use traditional organizers to create, read, interpret and organize information in the form of tables, graphs, diagrams and charts. RLA.6.2.2 Students will, from a prompt, use the writing process to develop a composition that contains specific, relevant details and transitions. Chapter 2 Nouns and Pronouns Chapter 3 Verbs Chapter 4 Adjectives and Adverbs Chapter 7 Phrases Chapter 8 Verbals and Verbal Phrases Chapter 11 Using Verbs Chapter 14 Using Adjectives and Adverbs
Essential Guide to Language, Writing, and Literature, Red Level / West Virginia Content s Correlation - p. 4 RLA.6.2.3 Students will use writing strategies to address specific writing purposes (e.g., creative; journalistic; essay; narrative; informative; persuasive) and address various audiences (e.g., peers; teachers; employers). RLA.6.2.4 Students will edit own writing as well as the writing of others to correct errors in organization, content, usage, mechanics and spelling. RLA.6.2.5 Students will demonstrate mastery of a 3-5 paragraph composition. RLA.6.2.6 Students will apply capitalization rules (e.g., proper adjectives; names of written works; family relationships; nationalities; religions/religious terms). Chapter 15 Capitalization
Essential Guide to Language, Writing, and Literature, Red Level / West Virginia Content s Correlation - p. 5 RLA.6.2.7 Students will apply punctuation rules (e.g., commas; apostrophes in contractions and possessives both singular and plural; colons; semicolons; quotation marks; hyphens). RLA.6.2.8 Students will write and punctuate simple and compound sentences with conjunctions, interjections and prepositions. RLA.6.2.9 Students will identify and use correct pronoun case. RLA.6.3.2 Students will retell simple and detailed stories sequentially. Chapter 16 End Marks and Commas Chapter 17 Italics and Quotation Marks Chapter 18 Other Punctuation Chapter 5 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections Chapter 16 End Marks and Commas Chapter 17 Italics and Quotation Marks Chapter 18 Other Punctuation Chapter 2 Nouns and Pronouns Chapter 12 Using Pronouns