6-R1.3  Demonstrate the ability to make connections between a text read independently and his or her prior knowledge, other texts, and the world.

    6R1.5  Demonstrate the ability to identify details that support a thesis.

    6R1.6  Demonstrate the ability to make predictions.

    6R1.8  Demonstrate the ability to draw conclusions and make references.

    6R1.11 Demonstrate the ability to follow multi-step directions for completing forms.

    6R1.12 Demonstrate the ability to use a graphic organizer as a means of organizing information and events logically.

    6R1.14 Demonstrate the ability to compare and contrast his or her finding on a particular topic after having extracted information from two or more pieces of graphic  or written material.

    6W1.1  Demonstrate the ability to choose a topic, generate ideas and use oral and written pre-writing strategies.

    6W1.2  Demonstrate the ability to generate drafts that use logical progression of ideas to develop a topic for a specific audiences and/or purpose.

    6W1.3  Demonstrate the ability to develop and extended response around a central idea using relevant supporting details.

    6W1.4  Demonstrate the ability to revise writing for clarity, sentence variety,  precise vocabulary, and effective phrasing through collaboration, conferencing and self evaluation.

    6W1.5  Demonstrate the ability to edit for language conventions such as spelling, capitalization, punctuation, confusing words, agreement, sentence structure, and syntax.

    6W1.6.4 Demonstrate the ability to use the Internet with teacher guidance to communicate with others.

 Writing Purposes

    6W2.1  Demonstrate the ability to user writing to explain and inform.

    6W2.2  Demonstrate the ability to use writing to learn, entertain, and describe.

    6W2.3  Begin writing to analyze. 

    6W4.1-2 Demonstrate the ability to write legibly using print or cursive handwriting, and begin using keyboarding skills to produce text.

    6C1.1 Demonstrate the ability to face and audience, make eye contact, andust the appropriate voice level: continue using appropriate gesture, facial expressions, and posture when making oral presentations.

    6C1.2 Demonstrate the ability to use language and vocabulary appropriate for the purpose and audience.

    6C1.4 Demonstrate the ability to express and explain ideas orally with fluency and confidence.

    6C1.6 Demonstrate the ability to give brief presentations, demonstrations, and oral reports.

    6C1.7  Demonstrate the ability to use visual aides, props, and technology to support and extend the meaning and enhance the presentation.

    6C1.11  Demonstrate the ability to use effective organizational strategies to prepare oral presentations.

    6C1.12  Demonstrate the ability to use Standard English in formal speaking situations and in the classroom.

6C2.1  Demonstrate the ability to listen for meaning .

6C2. 2  Demonstrate the ability to summarize what is heard.

6C2. 3  Demonstrate the ablity to distinguish between fact and opinion, to compare and ocntrast information and ideas and to make inferences regarding what is heard.