Common Core Standards
Grade 6
Reading RI.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
Why is this thing here, and what purpose does it serve? That's the question this standard is asking students to answer. Does this part of the text support the central idea? Does it try to subvert it? Is it a specific piece of evidence, or is it more anecdotal? There are lots of ways to answer the question at the beginning of this paragraph.
Example 1
Here's a lesson to use with any nonfiction article of your choosing.
In this activity students will be given the text of an article that has been jumbled. The students must use their knowledge of nonfiction text structure and outlining to place the article back into the correct order and be able to explain why it makes sense to order the information this way.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Exploring Homelessness
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Sliding Through History
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching Hatchet: Biology 101
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Google Maps: A Modern Tool for a Modern Rat
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Rules of Flag Flying (You Read That Right)
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: HistoryBusters