6th Grade ELA Targeted Standards (RI) Reading Information Strand Cluster: Craft and Structure
ELA-06.RI.06 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Student Learning Targets:
Knowledge Targets
I can define author’s purpose in a text.
Reasoning Targets
I can determine author’s purpose in a text.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can discuss how the author conveys or gets his/her purpose across in the text.
Product Targets
I can support my choice of author's purpose in a written explanation.
Proficiency Scale
Score
Description: RI. 6.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text
Sample Activity
4.0
In addition to Score 3.0, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
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3.5
In addition to Score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding the more complex content with partial success.
3.0
“The Standard.” The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
The student
identifies and uses textual evidence to explain the author’s purpose in a text.
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2.5
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2.0
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits majors errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
The student
identifies the author’s purpose in the text, but textual evidence may be irrelevant or inaccurate.
provides an accurate and complete definition of vocabulary words.
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1.5
The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
1.0
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
The student
identifies an author’s purpose, but it was inaccurate.
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0.5
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).