1.) Apply strategies, including making complex predictions, interpreting characters' behaviors, and comparing and contrasting, to comprehend sixth-grade recreational reading materials.

2.) Interpret literary elements and devices, including implied main idea, conflict, and personification.

3.) Apply strategies that include making complex predictions, identifying the likely source of a text, and comparing to comprehend sixth-grade informational and functional reading materials.

4.) Recognize the use of text elements, including implied main idea, explicit cause-effect relationships, and persuasive techniques, in sixth-grade informational and functional reading materials.

5.) Analyze short stories, novels, plays, myths, and nonfiction materials for distinguishing characteristics.

6.) Identify the author's purpose as entertainment, information, or persuasion in selected works.

7.) Identify examples of literary selections that illustrate linguistic and cultural diversity.

8.) Compose in persuasive mode for a specific purpose and audience, including clearly stated opinions with supporting details and reasons or examples to influence thought or action.

9.) Utilize vocabulary and spelling skills, including using homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms in writing.

10.) Use punctuation correctly in writing, including apostrophes to show possession and semicolons joining two independent clauses.

11.) Apply the rules governing capitalization of proper adjectives, map directions and regions of the country, seasons, titles, words showing family relationships, subjects and courses, and divided quotations.

12.) Apply grammar conventions in writing with consistent verb tense; nominative, objective, and possessive pronouns; and subject-verb agreement when interrupted by a prepositional phrase.

13.) Utilize resource materials for supporting evidence in compositions.

14.) Use organizing and paraphrasing in the research process.

15.) Recognize speech forms including dialects and idioms.

16.) Demonstrate eye contact, articulation, and appropriate voice intonation with persuasive presentations.

17.) Use listening skills for remembering significant details, directions, and sequences.