Sixth Grade Reading Skills
Sixth Grade Reading Skills
- Reads orally with fluency based on rate, intonation, phrasing, and naturalness
- Self-corrects when reading miscues
- Reads fluently with understanding
- Utilizes prior knowledge
- Decodes unknown words using the three-cueing system (e.g., semantics/contexts meaning, syntax/sentence structure, graphophonic/sound-symbol correspondence)
- Uses word patterns to correctly spell words in context
- Extends word patterns (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, inflectional ending)
- Uses synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
- Uses multiple meanings of words/homographs
- Interprets the meaning of contractions and possessives
- Utilizes figurative language/sound devices (e.g., rhyming, alliteration, onomatopoeia)
- Identifies/spells frequently-used words correctly
- Identifies analogies
- Locates, summarizes and combines information from different sources (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas, computer)
- Utilizes visual aids to completely understand the passage (e.g., picture, list, table, chart, graph)
- Utilizes parts of a book (e.g., table of contents, index, glossary, chapter heading)
- Identifies and applies knowledge of organizational patterns (e.g., sequence, cause and effect, comparison/contrast)
- Summarizes main idea and supporting details
- Makes predictions, draws conclusions and infers meaning
- Skims and scans to locate key information
- Rereads to determine meaning
- Retells a story
- Identifies the story elements (e.g., character, setting, plot, theme, mood/tone, conflict, and solution)
- Identifies and creates genres
- Connects the content of the passage to real life or current events
- Determines author's purpose (e.g., entertain, describe, persuade, inform); mood/tone (e.g., humorous, persuasive, ominous); point of view (e.g., first person, third person, omniscient)
- Uses figurative language/literary devices (e.g., similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole)
- Understands meaning of a passage from a selection
- Understands the author's position (author's personal view)
- Distinguishes between fact and opinion
- Recognizes persuasive and propaganda techniques (e.g., bias, slant, misinformation, propaganda)
- Follows written directions within a passage
- Interprets specialized vocabulary
- Compares the relationship between graphic aids and the content of the passage
- Determines the sequence of activities needed to carryout a procedure
- Locates and applies appropriate information (e.g., phone book, manuals, order forms)
- Identifies information which provides additional clarity (e.g., bold-faced print, illustrations, italics)
- Follows oral directions
- Listens to and comprehends oral reading
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