Copy of Grade 6: Reading Essential Learning Outcomes

Copy of Grade 6: Reading Essential Learning Outcomes
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Trimester One
1. Analyze elements of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution and author's point or view or perspective in text.
2. Identify textual evidence from narrative and informational text that supports inferences.
3. Create an accurate summary that does not include personal opinion or judgement (bias).
Identify different types of genres (fiction, non-fiction), subgenres (realistic, historical, biography, autobiography, folklore, science,
4. mythology, fantasy, informational, poetry) and compare and contrast two different genres using similar theme.
Trimester Two
1. Identify how a character responds or changes as a result of the plot.
2. Determine examples of internal vs. external conflict (man vs. man, nature, and society)
Compare and contrast the experiences of reading a story between reading and listening viewing a video or a live version of the text and
3. interpreting how photos, drawings, videos and music affect what the readers perceive.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases through figurative knowledge and technical meanings.
5. Recognize theme or main idea using textual evidence within text.
Trimester Three
1. Compare and contrast how two or more works approach a similar main idea in a nonfiction text.
2. Identify irony, parody and theme.
Compare and contrast two or more works in different genres (fiction, non-fiction), subgenres (realistic, historical, biography,
3. autobiography, folklore, science, mythology, fantasy, informational, poetry).
4. Evaluate the impact of connotation and tone in a text.

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