1. 6th Language Arts Second Quarter Checklist
Writing
• Response to Literature: use posing and answering a question to convey information
• Support a judgment through references to the text
• Advance a judgment that is analytical, evaluative or reflective
• Organize an interpretation around several clear ideas, premises or images
• Demonstrate an understanding of the literary work
Reading
• Identify/ describe the speaker of a literary text
• Define/ explain the effects of sound (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme) in literature
• Explain the effects of graphics in literature
• Apply the knowledge of posing and answering questions as an organizational structure
• Use context clues in sentences/ paragraphs/ passages to identify words while reading
Conventions
• Use pronouns (personal, possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, reflexive, indefinite)
• Write and identify simple and compound sentences avoiding fragments and run-ons
• Use verbs (action, transitive, intransitive) linking, state-of-being
• Use verb phrases (main and helping verbs) in active and passive voice
• Maintain consistent number and gender in verbs
• Capitalize titles and directions of a regions
Word Study
• Prefixes: sub- , super- , im- , mid-
• Roots: tele, trac/ tract, vid/ vis

2. • Suffixes: -ion, -ive, -less