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Theme

6th Grade

Arkansas Academic Standards: RL.6.2

Examine a grade-appropriate literary text.
  • Provide an objective summary.
  • Determine a theme of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details.

Arizona - K-12 Academic Standards: 6.RL.2

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.RL.6.2

Ohio's Learning Standards: RL.6.2

Analyze literary text development.
  1. Determine a theme of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details.
  2. Incorporate a theme and story details into an objective summary of the text.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE6RL2

Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 6R2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is developed by key supporting details over the course of a text; summarize a text (RI&RL)

Tennessee Academic Standards: 6.RL.KID.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: R.6.2

Summarize texts, from a variety of genres, to determine a theme or central idea and how it is developed by key supporting details over the course of a text. (RI &RL)

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 3

Explain how authors use setting, plot, characters, theme, conflict, dialogue, and point of view to contribute to the meaning and purpose of prose and poetry, using textual evidence from the writing.

Arizona - K-12 Academic Standards: 6.RL.5

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.RL.6.5

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE6RL5

Tennessee Academic Standards: 6.RL.CS.5

Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 6R5

In literary texts, analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, stanza, chapter, scene, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of theme, central idea, setting, or plot. (RL)
In informational texts, analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of theme or central ideas. (RI)

Wisconsin Academic Standards: R.6.5

In literary texts, analyze how a sentence, paragraph, stanza, chapter, scene, or section fits into the overall structure and how it contributes to the development of theme, central idea, setting, or plot. (RL)
In informational texts, analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of theme or central ideas. (RI)

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.3*

Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.3.A*

infer the implicit theme of a work of fiction, distinguishing theme from the topic

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.3.6.a

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.3.6.e

Analyze how the structure of a text contributes to the development of theme, setting, and plot.

Pennsylvania Core Standards:      E06.A-C.2.1.2

Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

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

Analyze the development of stated or implied theme(s) throughout a literary text.

6th Grade Reading - Theme Lesson
 
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