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Literary Text Prompts

6th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.11.A*

compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.15

Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.15.A

write imaginative stories that include
  1. a clearly defined focus, plot, and point of view;
  2. a specific, believable setting created through the use of sensory details; and
  3. dialogue that develops the story; and

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.15.B

write poems using:
  1. poetic techniques (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia);
  2. figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors); and
  3. graphic elements (e.g., capital letters, line length).

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.16

Students write about their own experiences. Students are expected to write a personal narrative that has a clearly defined focus and communicates the importance of or reasons for actions and/or consequences.

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 7

Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.
  1. Write narratives incorporating key literary elements, including characters, plot, setting, point of view, resolution of a conflict, dialogue, and sensory details.
  2. Write informative or explanatory texts with an organized structure and a formal style, incorporating a focused point of view, a clear purpose, credible evidence, and technical word meanings.
  3. Write an argument to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position, stating a claim and supporting the claim with relevant, well-organized evidence from credible sources.

Arkansas Academic Standards: W.6.10

Write routinely over extended time frames, time for
  • research
  • reflection
  • revision
and shorter time frames (e.g., a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Arizona - K-12 Academic Standards: 6.W.10

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.6.10

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE6W10

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 6.W.RW.10

Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.6.M

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.6.N

Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.6.O

Use narrative techniques such as dialogue,description, and pacing to develop experiences, events, and/or characters; use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.6.P

Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically, using a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another; provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences and events

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.6.Q

Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of writing.

Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.

Use precise language.

Develop and maintain a consistent voice.
  • E06.D.2.1.1 - Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.*

  • E06.D.2.1.2 - Maintain consistency in style and tone.*

  • E06.D.2.1.3 - Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.*

  • E06.D.2.1.4 - Choose punctuation for effect.*

  • E06.D.2.1.5 - Choose words and phrases for effect.*

  • E06.E.1.1.4 - Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.

  • E06.E.1.1.5 - Establish and maintain a formal style.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.6.R

Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
  • E06.D.1.1.1 - Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (i.e., subjective, objective, and possessive).

  • E06.D.1.1.2 - Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).

  • E06.D.1.1.3 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*

  • E06.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*

  • E06.D.1.1.5 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*

  • E06.D.1.1.6 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*

  • E06.D.1.1.7 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*

  • E06.D.1.1.8 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.* E06.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation (e.g., commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*

  • E06.D.1.2.2 - Spell correctly.

  • E06.D.1.2.3 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.6.C.1.2

Write personal or fictional narratives using narrative techniques, precise words and phrases, and figurative language.

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.6.V.1.1

Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.

6th Grade Writing - Literary Text Prompts Lesson
 
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