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6th Grade Writing

For sixth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of writing skills by working collaboratively and producing written texts, understanding syntax and vocabulary, and organizing their ideas. Among the complete standards for this grade, sixth graders will be asked to: begin to effectively use evidence, reason, arguments, sources and language to support a written text, demonstrate command of formal style, improve reader comprehension of written texts by employing techniques like graphics, multimedia, and formatting, employ facts, definitions, quotations, details, and other information to develop written topics, use appropriate technology to publish writing and to collaborate on written projects, demonstrate keyboarding skill, go through the process of writing, editing and revision for their written work.

Haiku: Write Your Own!

Haiku: Write Your Own!

This worksheet features the Japanese poetry style haiku.

Write Rhyming Couplets

Write Rhyming Couplets

Time for some poetic rhyming couplets!

Abraham Lincoln Bio Poem

Abraham Lincoln Bio Poem

Your students will write a bio poem about Abraham Lincoln.

Back to School Diamante Poem

Back to School Diamante Poem

Teach your students a fun way to write diamante poems using our new back to school worksheet.

Bio Poem: My Mother

Bio Poem: My Mother

A fun Mother’s Day bio poem activity for your students!

Bio Poem: Pilgrim

Bio Poem: Pilgrim

A biography poem, also called a bio poem, is a short poem which describes a person or thing. This printable Thanksgiving Activity guides students through creating a bio poem about Pilgrims.

Bio Poem: Someone You Know

Bio Poem: Someone You Know

Students will write a bio poem about someone they know using the format set in this worksheet.

Christmas Tree Bio Poem

Christmas Tree Bio Poem

A biography poem, also called a bio poem, is a short poem which describes a person or thing. Sometimes writing a bio pem can be tricky! This printable Christmas Activity guides students through creating a bio poem about a Christmas tree.

Correct the Transition Words Mistakes – Worksheet

Correct the Transition Words Mistakes – Worksheet

Have your students revise sentences and correct transition word mistakes with this educational writing activity.

Diamante Poem: Antonyms

Diamante Poem: Antonyms

Students write an antonym diamante poem in the space provided.

Diamante Poem: Synonyms

Diamante Poem: Synonyms

A diamante poem takes its name from the shape it makes: a diamond. Diamante poems were introduced in 1969 by Iris Tiedt. Students write a synonym diamante poem in the space provided.

Edgar Allan Poe; Journalist Trickster

Edgar Allan Poe; Journalist Trickster

Students read about one of Edgar Allan Poe’s hoaxes when he was a journalist. Each student then write’s their own hoax!

Edgar Allan Poe: Secrets in Poetry

Edgar Allan Poe: Secrets in Poetry

Students read from Edgar Allan Poe’s “An Enigma” and decipher the name of the woman’s whose name is hidden within the text.

Father’s Day Bio Poem: My Father

Father’s Day Bio Poem: My Father

Enhance your students’ writing skills with this fun Father’s Day Biography Poem activity.

Fourth of July Bio Poem: America

Fourth of July Bio Poem: America

Encourage your students to learn about America with this Fourth of July Biography Poem activity.

George Washington Bio Poem

George Washington Bio Poem

Your students will write a bio poem about George Washington.

George Washington’s List of Rules

George Washington’s List of Rules

When George Washington was a young boy, he made a list of rules for himself. Students choose one of the rules and write what it means.

Halloween Bio Poem Activity: Ghost

Halloween Bio Poem Activity: Ghost

Create a bio poem about your own personal ghost with our fun Halloween printable activity!

Identify the Topic Sentence

Identify the Topic Sentence

The topic sentence in a paragraph states the main idea of the paragraph. While it is usually at the beginning of the paragraph, it also can be in the middle or end of it. Students underline the topic sentence in each activity.

Identify the Transition Words

Identify the Transition Words

Help your students identify different transition words with this printable writing worksheet.

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Common Core 6th Grade Writing Standards for English

LiteracyTA provides writing skills that Common Core educators use to teach Common Core 6th Grade Writing Standards for English.

The Common Core literacy standards are the what. The skills below and the related eCoach discussions are the how. In the table below, you will find next to each Common Core writing standard practical skills, classroom resources, rich conversations and teaching ideas that move all students toward achieving Common Core standards!

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Analyzing Research Prompts

Analyzing Research Prompts

Analyzing Text-Dependent Prompts

Analyzing Text-Dependent Prompts

Argument Writing Plan

Argument Writing Plan

Building a Reading and Writing Plan

Building a Reading and Writing Plan

Debate a Side

Debate a Side

Integrating Sources

Integrating Sources

One Minute Speech

One Minute Speech

Problem and Solution Organizer

Problem and Solution Organizer

Taking Research Notes

Taking Research Notes

Timed Writing Process

Timed Writing Process

A Writing Process for All

A Writing Process for All

Understanding Argument Writing Standards

Understanding Argument Writing Standards

Engage in Structured Debates

Engage in Structured Debates

5 Steps to Teaching Argumentative Writing

5 Steps to Teaching Argumentative Writing

6 Steps for Teaching Types of Writing

6 Steps for Teaching Types of Writing

Cause and Effect Organizer

Cause and Effect Organizer

Compare and Contrast Organizer

Compare and Contrast Organizer

Expanding Summary

Expanding Summary

Informative Essay Writing Plan

Informative Essay Writing Plan

Online Portfolio

Online Portfolio

Rhetorical Precis

Rhetorical Precis

Source Summary

Source Summary

Synthesizing Claims

Synthesizing Claims

Writing Abstracts

Writing Abstracts

Summary: The Pathway to College Success

Summary: The Pathway to College Success

8 Research Lessons for African-American History Month

8 Research Lessons for African-American History Month

Understanding the Writing Standards: A Narrative (or is it Informative?)

Understanding the Writing Standards: A Narrative (or is it Informative?)

3 Ways to Prepare Students for the New State Tests

3 Ways to Prepare Students for the New State Tests

Narrative Essay Writing Plan

Narrative Essay Writing Plan

Narrative Story Writing Plan

Narrative Story Writing Plan

Let's Start Collaborating: Short Writing Tasks

Let's Start Collaborating: Short Writing Tasks

CCR-Aligned Reading and Writing Processes

CCR-Aligned Reading and Writing Processes

Production and Distribution of Writing

Email etiquette.

Email Etiquette

Peer Review Groups

Peer Review Groups

Three Step Writing Process

Three Step Writing Process

Getting Started with Pair Peer Review

Getting Started with Pair Peer Review

Editing Marks

Editing Marks

New and Exciting Writing Resources on TA

New and Exciting Writing Resources on TA

Supporting Your Tech Initiatives: Technology in Your Standards

Supporting Your Tech Initiatives: Technology in Your Standards

Bringing the Socrative Seminar to the 21st Century

Bringing the Socrative Seminar to the 21st Century

Digitally Mark Texts and Take Notes Using Mobile Devices, Laptops, and PCs

Digitally Mark Texts and Take Notes Using Mobile Devices, Laptops, and PCs

Add LiteracyTA to Your Mobile Device

Add LiteracyTA to Your Mobile Device

Facilitating On-line Collaboration and Argument Analysis with Google+ Hangout

Facilitating On-line Collaboration and Argument Analysis with Google+ Hangout

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Evaluating sources.

Evaluating Sources

Six Organizers at a Glance

Six Organizers at a Glance

Synthesizing Sources

Synthesizing Sources

Top 10 topics to write about/research in 2015-2016

Top 10 topics to write about/research in 2015-2016

Examining Common Core Anchor Standard W7

Examining Common Core Anchor Standard W7

Team Teaching with Your Librarian

Team Teaching with Your Librarian

Four Square Organizer

Four Square Organizer

Introducing Sources

Introducing Sources

Finally, A Way to Understand Text Complexity

Finally, A Way to Understand Text Complexity

Argument Poster

Argument Poster

Fictional Character Web

Fictional Character Web

Socratic Seminar

Socratic Seminar

Story Summary Poster

Story Summary Poster

Three Group Socratic Seminar

Three Group Socratic Seminar

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Writing about Rhetorical Devices

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Grade 6 » Introduction

In Grade 6, instructional time should focus on four critical areas: (1) connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems; (2) completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers; (3) writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations; and (4) developing understanding of statistical thinking.

  • Students use reasoning about multiplication and division to solve ratio and rate problems about quantities. By viewing equivalent ratios and rates as deriving from, and extending, pairs of rows (or columns) in the multiplication table, and by analyzing simple drawings that indicate the relative size of quantities, students connect their understanding of multiplication and division with ratios and rates. Thus students expand the scope of problems for which they can use multiplication and division to solve problems, and they connect ratios and fractions. Students solve a wide variety of problems involving ratios and rates.
  • Students use the meaning of fractions, the meanings of multiplication and division, and the relationship between multiplication and division to understand and explain why the procedures for dividing fractions make sense. Students use these operations to solve problems. Students extend their previous understandings of number and the ordering of numbers to the full system of rational numbers, which includes negative rational numbers, and in particular negative integers. They reason about the order and absolute value of rational numbers and about the location of points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.
  • Students understand the use of variables in mathematical expressions. They write expressions and equations that correspond to given situations, evaluate expressions, and use expressions and formulas to solve problems. Students understand that expressions in different forms can be equivalent, and they use the properties of operations to rewrite expressions in equivalent forms. Students know that the solutions of an equation are the values of the variables that make the equation true. Students use properties of operations and the idea of maintaining the equality of both sides of an equation to solve simple one-step equations. Students construct and analyze tables, such as tables of quantities that are in equivalent ratios, and they use equations (such as 3 x = y ) to describe relationships between quantities.

Grade 6 Overview

Ratios and proportional relationships.

  • Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
  • The Number System
  • Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
  • Multiply and divide multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
  • Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.

Expressions and Equations

  • Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
  • Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.
  • Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
  • Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.

Statistics and Probability

  • Develop understanding of statistical variability.
  • Summarize and describe distributions.

Mathematical Practices

  • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • Model with mathematics.
  • Use appropriate tools strategically.
  • Attend to precision.
  • Look for and make use of structure.
  • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
  • Standards for Mathematical Practice
  • How to read the grade level standards
  • Introduction
  • Counting & Cardinality
  • Operations & Algebraic Thinking
  • Number & Operations in Base Ten
  • Measurement & Data
  • Number & Operations—Fractions¹
  • Number & Operations in Base Ten¹
  • Number & Operations—Fractions
  • Ratios & Proportional Relationships
  • Expressions & Equations
  • Statistics & Probability
  • The Real Number System
  • Quantities*
  • The Complex Number System
  • Vector & Matrix Quantities
  • Seeing Structure in Expressions
  • Arithmetic with Polynomials & Rational Expressions
  • Creating Equations*
  • Reasoning with Equations & Inequalities
  • Interpreting Functions
  • Building Functions
  • Linear, Quadratic, & Exponential Models*
  • Trigonometric Functions
  • High School: Modeling
  • Similarity, Right Triangles, & Trigonometry
  • Expressing Geometric Properties with Equations
  • Geometric Measurement & Dimension
  • Modeling with Geometry
  • Interpreting Categorical & Quantitative Data
  • Making Inferences & Justifying Conclusions
  • Conditional Probability & the Rules of Probability
  • Using Probability to Make Decisions
  • Courses & Transitions
  • Mathematics Glossary
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    Establish and maintain a formal style. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.e Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2 Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.

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    Sixth Grade English Language Arts Common Core State Standards By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. See related worksheets, workbooks Reading: Informational Text RI.6.1

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    (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.) 6.W.5: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.(Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3up to and ...

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    Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth | Eleventh | Twelfth Common Core Skills available for Common Core sixth-grade language arts standards Standards are in black and IXL language arts skills are in dark green. Hold your mouse over the name of a skill to view a sample question. Click on the name of a skill to practice that skill.

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  10. Common Core Worksheets

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  11. English Language Arts Grade 6 Core

    The grades 6-12 standards on the following pages define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards. Writing Standards. The following standards for grades 6-12 offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain ...

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  13. PDF Sixth Grade Common Core State Standards: California

    RANGE OF WRITING W.6.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Bold, underlined text = California additions to the Common Core Sixth Grade Common Core State Standards ...

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    About the Standards What Parents Should Know Read the Standards English Language Arts Standards » Writing » Introduction for 6-12 Print this page The following standards for grades 6-12 offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications.

  15. Common Core 6th Grade Writing Standards for English

    Common Core 6th Grade Writing Standards for English LiteracyTA provides writing skills that Common Core educators use to teach Common Core 6th Grade Writing Standards for English. The Common Core literacy standards are the what. The skills below and the related eCoach discussions are the how.

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    Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.4.a

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  21. TIMSS

    6 Yemen assessed both 4th-grade and 6th-grade students in 2011. 7 Missouri-USA and Oregon-USA participated in the 1997 TIMSS Benchmarking Study, which administered the TIMSS 1995 assessment to 8th-grade students in 1997. 8 South Africa's benchmarking systems, Gauteng and Western Cape, assessed 9th-grade students in 2019 to better match their ...

  22. How did countries perform in PISA 2018?

    Figure I.4.8 shows a strong correlation between the results of the reading test for 4th-grade students in PIRLS 2011 and the results of the PISA 2018 reading assessment amongst 15-year-old students (variations in PIRLS results can account for about 72 % of the variation in PISA reading results across countries and economies). Despite this clear ...

  23. Grade 6 » Introduction

    In Grade 6, instructional time should focus on four critical areas: (1) connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems; (2) completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative n...