What does a student learn in StateNorth Carolina,GradeGrade 6,SubjectEnglish Language Arts?

Narrate

Share ideas about one’s own and others’ lived experiences and previous learning

Connect stories with images and representations to add meaning

Identify and raise questions about what might be unexplained, missing, or left unsaid

Recount and restate ideas to sustain and move dialogue forward

Create closure, recap, and offer next steps

Inform

Define and classify facts and interpretations; determine what is known vs. unknown

Report on explicit and inferred characteristics, patterns, or behavior

Describe the parts and wholes of a system

Sort, clarify, and summarize relationships

Summarize most important aspects of information

Explain

Generate and convey initial thinking

Follow and describe cycles and sequences of steps or procedures and their causes and effects

Compare changing variables, factors, and circumstances

Offer alternatives to extend or deepen awareness of factors that contribute to particular outcomes

Act on feedback to revise understandings of how or why something is or works in particular ways

Argue

Generate questions about different perspectives

Support or challenge an opinion, premise, or interpretation

Clarify and elaborate ideas based on feedback

Evaluate changes in thinking, identifying trade-offs

Refine claims and reasoning based on new information or evidence

Narrate.Interpretive: Interpret language arts narratives (with prompting and support) by:

Identifying a theme or central idea that develops over the course of a text

Analyzing how character attributes and actions develop in relation to events or dialogue

Evaluating impact of specific word choices about meaning and tone

Narrate.Expressive: Construct language arts narratives (with prompting and support) that:

Orient audience to context and point of view

Develop and describe characters and their relationships

Develop story, including themes with complication and resolution, time, and event sequences

Engage and adjust for audience

Inform.Interpretive: Interpret informational texts in language arts (with prompting and support) by:

Identifying and/or summarizing main ideas and their relationship to supporting ideas

Analyzing observations and descriptions in textual evidence for key attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and behaviors

Evaluating the impact of author’s key word choices over the course of a text

Inform.Expressive: Construct informational texts in language arts (with prompting and support) that:

Introduce and define topic and/or entity for audience

Establish objective or neutral stance

Add precision, details, and clarity about relevant attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and behaviors

Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text

Argue.Interpretive: Interpret language arts arguments by:

Identifying and summarizing central idea distinct from prior knowledge or opinions

Analyzing how an author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints

Evaluating relevance, sufficiency of evidence, and validity of reasoning that support claim(s)

Argue.Expressive: Construct language arts arguments that:

Introduce and develop claim(s) and acknowledge counterclaim(s)

Support claims with reasons and evidence that are clear, relevant, and credible

Establish and maintain formal style

Logically organize claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence; offer a conclusion

Explain.Interpretive: Interpret mathematical explanations by:

Identifying concept or entity

Analyzing possible ways to represent and solve a problem

Evaluating model and rationale for underlying relationships in selected problem-solving approach

Explain.Expressive: Construct mathematical explanations that:

Introduce concept or entity

Share solution with others

Describe data and/or problem-solving strategy

State reasoning used to generate solution

Argue.Interpretive: Interpret mathematics arguments by:

Comparing conjectures with previously established results

Distinguishing commonalities among strategies used

Evaluating relationships between evidence and mathematical facts to create generalizations

Argue.Expressive: Construct mathematics arguments that:

Create conjecture, using definitions and previously established results

Generalize logic across cases

Justify conclusions with evidence and mathematical facts

Evaluate and critique others’ arguments

Explain.Interpretive: Interpret scientific explanations by:

Defining investigable questions or design problems based on observations, information, and/or data about a phenomenon

Determining central ideas in complex evidence and information to help explain how or why a phenomenon occurs

Evaluating scientific reasoning that shows why data or evidence adequately supports conclusions

Explain.Expressive: Construct scientific explanations that:

Summarize patterns in evidence, making trade-offs, revising, and retesting

Argue.Interpretive: Interpret scientific arguments by:

Identifying convincing evidence from data, models, and/or information from investigations of phenomena or design solutions

Comparing reasoning and claims based on evidence from two arguments on the same topic

Evaluating whether they emphasize similar or different evidence and/or interpretations of facts

Argue.Expressive Construct scientific arguments that:

Introduce and contextualize topic/phenomenon in issues related to the natural and designed world(s)

Support or refute a claim based on data and evidence

Establish and maintain a neutral or objective stance

Signal logical relationships among reasoning, evidence, data, and/or a model when making or defending a claim or counterclaim

Explain.Interpretive Interpret social studies explanations by:

Determining multiple points of view in sources for answering compelling and supporting questions about phenomena or events

Analyzing sources for logical relationships among contributing factors or causes

Evaluating experts’ points of agreement, along with strengths and weakness of explanations

Explain.Expressive: Construct social studies explanations that:

Introduce and contextualize phenomena or events

Establish perspective for communicating outcomes, consequences, or documentation

Develop reasoning, sequences with linear and nonlinear relationships, evidence, and details, acknowledging strengths and weaknesses

Generalize multiple causes and effects of developments or events

Argue.Interpretive: Interpret social studies arguments by:

Identifying topic and purpose (argue in favor or against a position, present a balanced interpretation, challenge perspective)

Analyzing relevant information from multiple sources to support claims

Evaluating point of view and credibility of source based on relevance and intended use

Argue.Expressive: Construct social studies arguments that:

Introduce and contextualize topic

Select relevant information to support claims with evidence gathered from multiple sources

Establish perspective

Show relationships between claims and counterclaims, differences in perspectives, and evidence and reasoning