Informational Text Prompts
6th Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.11.B
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compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.17
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Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
6.17.A
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(i) present effective introductions and concluding paragraphs;
(ii) guide and inform the reader's understanding of key ideas and evidence;
(iii) include specific facts, details, and examples in an appropriately organized structure; and
(iv) use a variety of sentence structures and transitions to link paragraphs; |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
7
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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.- Write narratives incorporating key literary elements, including characters, plot, setting, point of view, resolution of a conflict, dialogue, and sensory details.
- 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.
- 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.
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Arizona Academic Standards:
6.W.10
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.6.10
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE6W10
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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
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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.A
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Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information clearly. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.B
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Identify and introduce the topic for the intended audience.
- E06.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.C
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Develop and analyze the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension
- E06.E.1.1.2 - Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.D
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Organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts; provide a concluding statement or section; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension.
- E06.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose
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E06.E.1.1.3 - Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
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E06.E.1.1.6 - Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.E
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Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition.
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Use sentences of varying lengths and complexities.
Develop and maintain a consistent voice.
Establish and maintain a formal style
- E06.D.2.1.1 - Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.*
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E06.D.2.1.2 - Maintain consistency in style and tone.*
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E06.D.2.1.3 - Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.*
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E06.D.2.1.4 - Choose punctuation for effect.*
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E06.D.2.1.5 - Choose words and phrases for effect.*
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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.
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E06.E.1.1.5 - Establish and maintain a formal style.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.6.F
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
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E06.D.1.1.1 - Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (i.e., subjective, objective, and possessive).
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E06.D.1.1.2 - Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
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E06.D.1.1.3 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
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E06.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
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E06.D.1.1.5 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
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E06.D.1.1.6 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
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E06.D.1.1.7 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
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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.*
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E06.D.1.2.2 - Spell correctly.
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E06.D.1.2.3 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
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Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.6.C.1.4
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Write expository texts to explain and/or analyze information from multiple sources, using a logical organizational structure, relevant elaboration, and varied transitions. |
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.6.V.1.1
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Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
6.W.2.S
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Write to inform about a topic.- Organize ideas, concepts, and information.
- Use relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, and quotations.
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