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TX.STAAR.6R.STAAR Grade 6 Reading Assessment

STAAR Grade 6 Reading Assessment

Reporting Category 2: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts - The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze literary texts.

(6.13) Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more comple

6.13 (A) Explain messages conveyed in various forms of media. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Listening and Viewing

(6.3) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. 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 understan

6.3 (A) Infer the implicit theme of a work of fiction, distinguishing theme from the topic. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 5 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Narrative Text

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Theme of Writing

6.3 (B) Analyze the function of stylistic elements (e.g., magic helper, rule of three) in traditional and classical literature from various cultures. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 5 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Identify Perspectives

(6.4) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:

6.4 (A) Explain how figurative language (e.g., personification, metaphors, similes, hyperbole) contributes to the meaning of a poem. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Figurative Language

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literary Devices

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Literary Devices

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Literary Elements/Poetic Devices

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Opinion/Exaggeration/Missing Info.

(6.5) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Drama. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of drama and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 5 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Central Idea/Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Genre Characteristics

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literal/Inferential/Evaluative Questions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sentence Purpose Identification

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Detail

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Topic Sentences

(6.6) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:

6.6 (A) Summarize the elements of plot development (e.g., rising action, turning point, climax, falling action, denouement) in various works of fiction. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literary Elements

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Main Idea

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plot Features

6.6 (B) Recognize dialect and conversational voice and explain how authors use dialect to convey character. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

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(6.8) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Stude

6.8 (A) Explain how authors create meaning through stylistic elements and figurative language emphasizing the use of personification, hyperbole, and refrains. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 5 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Figurative Language

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literary Devices

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Literary Devices

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Literary Elements/Poetic Devices

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Opinion/Exaggeration/Missing Info.

(Figure 19) Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author's message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly mo

Figure (D) Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding. Readiness Standard (Fiction) / Supporting Standard (Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama) (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 5 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Central Idea/Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Drawing Conclusions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Drawing Inferences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expository Text

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Implied Information

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literal/Inferential/Evaluative Questions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sentence Purpose Identification

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Detail

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Thinking Skills

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Topic Sentences

Figure (E) Summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts. Readiness Standard (Fiction) / Supporting Standard (Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama) (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 6 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Summarize

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Thinking Skills

Reporting Category 3: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts - The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze informational texts.

(6.10) Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:

6.10 (A) Summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text, demonstrating an understanding that a summary does not include opinions. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 6 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Central Idea/Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expository Text

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literal/Inferential/Evaluative Questions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Main Idea

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sentence Purpose Identification

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Detail

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Theme of Writing

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Topic Sentences

6.10 (C) Explain how different organizational patterns (e.g., proposition-and-support, problem-and-solution) develop the main idea and the author's viewpoint. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 6 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Author's Purpose

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Author's Purpose/Point of View

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Central Idea/Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expository Text

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literal/Inferential/Evaluative Questions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Main Idea

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Detail

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Theme of Writing

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Topic Sentences

6.10 (D) Synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Thinking Skills

(6.11) Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Persuasive Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about persuasive text and provide evidence from text to support their analysis. Students are expected to:

6.11 (B) Identify simply faulty reasoning used in persuasive texts. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 6 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Details

(6.12) Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Procedural Texts. Students understand how to glean and use information in procedural texts and documents. Students are expected to:

6.12 (B) Interpret factual, quantitative, or technical information presented in maps, charts, illustrations, graphs, timelines, tables, and diagrams. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 5 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Reading Graphics

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Text Features

6.13 (A) Explain messages conveyed in various forms of media. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Listening and Viewing

Figure (D) Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding. Readiness Standard (Expository) / Supporting Standard (Culture and History, Persuasive) (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Central Idea/Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Drawing Conclusions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Drawing Inferences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expository Text

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Implied Information

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literal/Inferential/Evaluative Questions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sentence Purpose Identification

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Detail

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Thinking Skills

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Topic Sentences

Figure (E) Summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts. Readiness Standard (Expository) / Supporting Standard (Persuasive) (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 6 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Summarize

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Thinking Skills

Reporting Category 1: Understanding and Analysis Across Genres - The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze a variety of written texts across reading genres.

6.11 (A) Compare and contrast the structure and viewpoints of two different authors writing for the same purpose, noting the stated claim and supporting evidence. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Author's Purpose

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Author's Purpose/Point of View

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Central Idea/Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expository Text

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literal/Inferential/Evaluative Questions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sentence Purpose Identification

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Detail

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Topic Sentences

(6.2) Reading/Vocabulary Development. Students understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing. Students are expected to:

6.2 (A) Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Root Words

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Structural Analysis

6.2 (B) Use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple meaning words. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Context Clues

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Context Clues

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Vocabulary

6.2 (E) Use a dictionary, a glossary, or a thesaurus (printed or electronic) to determine the meanings, syllabication, pronunciations, alternate word choices, and parts of speech of words. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Dictionary Skills

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Parts of a Book

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Using a Thesaurus

6.3 (C) Compare and contrast the historical and cultural settings of two literary works. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Genre Characteristics

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Identify Perspectives

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Parts of Speech

(6.7) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the varied structural patterns and features of literary nonfiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. S

6.7 (A) Identify the literary language and devices used in memoirs and personal narratives and compare their characteristics with those of an autobiography. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Genre Characteristics

(6.9) Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and History. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their under

6.9 (A) Compare and contrast the stated or implied purposes of different authors writing on the same topic. Supporting Standard (STAAR)

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Author's Purpose

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Author's Purpose/Point of View

Figure 19 (F) Make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between and across multiple texts of various genres, and provide textual evidence. Readiness Standard (STAAR)

Flip Charts Grade 5 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Flip Charts Grade 6 Common Core: Strategies Language Arts

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Central Idea/Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expository Text

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literal/Inferential/Evaluative Questions

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sentence Purpose Identification

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Detail

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Supporting Details

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Topic Sentences