Sixth Grade

Details of Writing Types

Argument / Informative/Explanatory / Narrative
  • Students will:
  • Write arguments to support claim(s)
  • Organize the reasons and evidence clearly
  • Support claim(s) with clear reasons, relevant
Evidence
Demonstrate understanding of the topic
  • Use credible sources
  • Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify
relationships among claim(s) and reasons
  • Establish and maintain formal style
  • Provide a concluding statement or section
that follows from the argument presented /
  • Students will:
  • Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and analyze relevant content
  • Introduce a topic
  • Organize ideas, concepts, and information
  • Use definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect
  • Use formatting - headings, graphics, charts, tables, etc.
  • Include relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, and examples
  • Use transitions to clarify relationships among ideas and concepts
  • Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary
  • Use and maintain formal style
  • Provide a concluding statement or section following explanation presented
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  • Students will:
  • Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events
  • Effective technique
  • Relevant, descriptive details
  • Well structured event sequences
  • Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context
  • Introduce narrator and characters
  • Organize event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically
  • Use transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts in time
  • Use dialogue, pacing, and description to develop experiences, events, characters
  • Use precise words, phrases, relevant descriptive details, sensory language
  • Provide a conclusion that follows narrated experiences or events

  • With guidance and support students will:
  • Use the writing process within a writing block organizationPlanning
  • Revising
  • Editing (conventions should demonstrate command of Language Standards)
  • Rewriting or typing
  • Publishing
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  • Students will:
  • Use the writing process within a writing block organizationPlanning
  • Revising
  • Editing (conventions should demonstrate command of Language Standards)
  • Publishing
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  • Students will:
  • Use the writing process within a writing block organizationPlanning
  • Revising
  • Editing (conventions should demonstrate command of Language Standards)
  • Publishing

  • With guidance and support students will:
  • Use technology, including Internet and keyboarding skills, to produce and publish writing (minimum 3 typed pages)
  • Use internet and collaborate with others
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  • With guidance and support students will:
  • Use technology, including Internet and keyboarding skills, to produce and publish writing (minimum 3 typed pages)
  • Use internet and collaborate with others
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  • With guidance and support students will:
  • Use technology, including Internet and keyboarding skills, to produce and publish writing (minimum 3 typed pages)
  • Use internet and collaborate with others

  • Students will:
  • Produce clear and coherent writing in which development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
  • Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources
  • Assess credibility of each source
  • Quote or paraphrase data and conclusions of others
  • Avoid plagiarism
  • Provide basic bibliography for sources
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  • Students will:
  • Produce clear and coherent writing in which development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
  • Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources
  • Conduct short research projects that use several resources to build knowledge through investigation to answer a questions
  • Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
  • Refocus the inquiry when appropriate
  • Assess credibility of each source
  • Quote or paraphrase data
  • Avoid plagiarism
  • Provide basic bibliography for sources
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  • Students will:
  • Produce clear and coherent writing in which development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
  • Recall relevant information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources
  • Summarize or paraphrase in notes

  • Students will:
  • Write daily
  • Short time frames (single sitting, day or two)
  • Extended time frames
  • Time for research, reflection, revision
  • Focus on a range of:
  • Discipline-specific tasks
  • Purposes
  • Audiences
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  • Students will:
  • Write daily
  • Short time frames (single sitting, day or two)
  • Extended time frames
  • Time for research, reflection, revision
  • Focus on a range of:
  • Discipline-specific tasks
  • Purposes
  • Audiences
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  • Students will:
  • Write daily
  • Short time frames (single sitting, day or two)
  • Extended time frames
  • Time for research, reflection, revision
  • Focus on a range of:
  • Discipline-specific tasks
  • Purposes
  • Audiences