Standard 7 : Reading Comprehension (Archived)



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The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend grade level text.

General Information

Number: LA.6.1.7
Title: Reading Comprehension
Type: Standard
Subject: X-Reading/Language Arts (former standards - 2008) - Archived
Grade: 6
Strand: Reading Process

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks
Code Description
LA.6.1.7.1: The student will use background knowledge of subject and related content areas, prereading strategies, graphic representations, and knowledge of text structure to make and confirm complex predictions of content, purpose, and organization of a reading selection;
LA.6.1.7.2: The student will analyze the authors purpose (e.g., to persuade, inform, entertain, or explain) and perspective in a variety of texts and understand how they affect meaning;
LA.6.1.7.3: The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level text through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details;
LA.6.1.7.4: The student will identify cause-and-effect relationships in text;
LA.6.1.7.5: The student will analyze a variety of text structures (e.g., comparison/contrast, cause/effect, chronological order, argument/support, lists) and text features (main headings with subheadings) and explain their impact on meaning in text;
LA.6.1.7.6: The student will analyze and evaluate similar themes or topics by different authors across a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections;
LA.6.1.7.7: The student will compare and contrast elements in multiple texts; and
LA.6.1.7.8: The student will use strategies to repair comprehension of grade-appropriate text when self-monitoring indicates confusion, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, note-making, summarizing, using graphic and semantic organizers, questioning, and clarifying by checking other sources.


Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Independent

Access Point Number Access Point Title
LA.6.1.7.In.a: Use background knowledge of the subject, guided previewing strategies, graphic representations, and text features (e.g. Table of contents, headings, simple charts, maps) to make and confirm predictions of content and purpose of reading selections.
LA.6.1.7.In.b: Identify the author’s purpose (e.g. to inform, entertain, persuade) using key words, phrases and graphics in text.
LA.6.1.7.In.c: Determine the main idea or essential message in text through identifying relevant details and facts
LA.6.1.7.In.d: Identify cause and effect relationships in stories and informational text.
LA.6.1.7.In.e: Identify text structures (e.g. comparison/contrast, explicit cause/effect relationships, sequence of events) in narrative and informational text using strategies, including graphic organizers.
LA.6.1.7.In.f: Identify the theme in fiction or nonfiction selections.
LA.6.1.7.In.g: Identify similarities and differences in characters, actions, or settings in two texts.
LA.6.1.7.In.h: Use strategies to repair comprehension, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, using graphic organizers, and requesting assistance for clarification.

Supported

Access Point Number Access Point Title
LA.6.1.7.Su.g: Use strategies to repair comprehension, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, using graphic organizers, and checking own understanding when reminded.
LA.6.1.7.Su.a: Use background knowledge of the subject and text features (e.g. illustrations, title) to make predictions of content of reading selections.
LA.6.1.7.Su.b: Identify the author’s purpose (e.g. tell a story, give information, elicit feelings) in a variety of texts with graphics.
LA.6.1.7.Su.c: Determine the main idea or essential message in text through identifying relevant details, including who, what, where, and when.
LA.6.1.7.Su.d: Identify explicit cause and effect relationships in read-aloud stories and informational text.
LA.6.1.7.Su.e: Identify fiction or nonfiction selections based on a theme.
LA.6.1.7.Su.f: Identify similarities and differences in characters and settings in stories using strategies, including simple graphic organizers.

Participatory

Access Point Number Access Point Title
LA.6.1.7.Pa.a: Identify persons, objects, actions, or events in read-aloud narrative and informational text used in daily activities.
LA.6.1.7.Pa.b: Respond to pictures or symbols paired with words used to guide classroom activities.
LA.6.1.7.Pa.c: Recognize details in read-aloud stories and informational text.
LA.6.1.7.Pa.d: Use pictures or symbols paired with words to achieve cause/effect outcomes in daily classroom activities.
LA.6.1.7.Pa.e: Recognize familiar read-aloud stories with a theme (e.g. friendship).
LA.6.1.7.Pa.f: Use a resource when necessary to clarify meaning of pictures, symbols, or words in classroom activities.