Supporting Details. 6th Grade ELA Worksheets and Answer Key.

◂English Language Arts Worksheets and Study Guides Sixth Grade. Supporting Details

Study Guide

Supporting Details

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Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. [RL.6.1]

Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. [RL.6.3]

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. [RI.6.1]

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. [RI.6.2]

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes). [RI.6.3]

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. [RI.6.8]

Writing Standards

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. [W.6.9]

Apply Grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not”). [W.6.9b]