Grade 6 — Reading Comprehension

ELA Common Core Aligned

Grade 6 — Reading Comprehension

Grade 6 Reading Comprehension develops close reading skills across complex literary and informational texts, focusing on theme development, argument analysis, author's perspective, and synthesis across sources — aligned to the ELA Common Core State Standards.

Units & Topics Covered

4 units  ·  22 topics

Literary Text Comprehension

  • Trace how theme develops through plot, characters, and setting
  • Analyse how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences the text
  • Describe how a character's response to conflict shapes the story
  • Analyse how setting creates mood and atmosphere
  • Compare the experience of reading a text vs viewing it as a film or performance
  • Identify alliteration, repetition, rhyme, and their effects in poetry

Informational Text Comprehension

  • Determine a central idea and explain how it is developed with details
  • Distinguish central idea from theme
  • Trace the development of an argument and evaluate its evidence
  • Analyse how an author supports claims with relevant and sufficient evidence
  • Compare two authors' accounts of the same event; identify similarities and differences
  • Evaluate the credibility of sources; identify bias

Vocabulary & Language

  • Use Greek and Latin prefixes, roots, and suffixes to determine meaning
  • Figurative language: allusion, symbolism, and irony
  • Analyse how an author's word choices affect tone and meaning
  • Domain-specific vocabulary in social studies and science texts
  • Academic vocabulary: analyse, interpret, evaluate, synthesise, compare

Media Literacy & Complex Text

  • Compare information from print and digital sources
  • Identify bias and perspective in informational and persuasive texts
  • Read and interpret infographics, charts, and data displays
  • Annotating complex texts for central ideas and evidence
  • Reading strategies for difficult academic and technical texts
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