Grade 6
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Communication and Multimodal Literacies
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Language Usage
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Research
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Reading Informational Text
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Reading Literary Text
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Reading and Vocabulary
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Writing
Virginia ELA Standard: 6.W.2.A
Generate and organize ideas using the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing) to develop multi-paragraph texts. This includes: i. Composing a thesis statement that focuses the topic and introduces the piece clearly. ii. Establishing a central idea incorporating evidence and maintaining an organized structure to fit the form and topic. iii. Elaborating and supporting ideas, using relevant facts, definitions, details, quotations, and/or examples. iv. Using transitions to show relationships between ideas, signal a shift or change in the writer’s thoughts, and make sentences clearer. v. Selecting vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice. vi. Expanding and embedding ideas to create sentence variety. vii. Providing a concluding statement or section.