Comprehension

Grade 6 Strand: Comprehension
Lesson LO ID Concept Description
1 smre_di_02527 Genre, Poetry Students learn to describe structural elements of poetry.
smre_itr_02527 Genre, Poetry Students read the poem, "Laughing Song." Then they literal and inferential questions, draw conclusions, and identify the impact of structural elements on its meaning.
smre_ip_02527 Genre, Poetry Students analyze how structural elements of various poetic forms impact their meaning.
smre_pp_02527 Genre, Poetry Students read a poem and use structural elements to answer questions.
1 smre_di_00411 Literary Devices Students learn to determine the meaning of idioms.
smre_itr_01411 Literary Devices Students read literary text, "The Ghost of Maplewood Middle." Students also determine the meaning of idioms; identify characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits, and feelings; use question-and-answer relationships(Right There), make predictions; and analyze how characters deal with conflict, solve problems, and relate to real-life situations.
smre_ip_01311 Literary Devices Students determine the meaning of idioms using the context of short sentences.
smre_pp_00502 Literary Devices Students read sentences to determine the meaning of idioms.
2 smre_di_00417 Literary Devices Students learn to determine the meaning of metaphors.
smre_itr_01417 Literary Devices Students read the Greek myth, "Prometheus." Students also determine the meaning of metaphors; use question-and-answer relationships (Right There, Think and Search); identify characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits, and feelings; analyze how characters in literature deal with conflict, solve problems, and relate to real-life situations; and draw valid conclusions.
smre_ip_01317 Literary Devices Students determine the meaning of metaphors using the context of short sentences.
3 smre_di_00415 Literary Devices Students learn to determine the meaning of similes.
smre_itr_01415 Literary Devices Students read literary text, "Ra and Isis: An Egyptian Myth." Students also determine the meaning of similes; identify characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits, and feelings; use question-and-answer relationships (Think and Search); draw valid conclusions; and summarize.
smre_ip_01315 Literary Devices Students determine the meaning of similes by using the context of short sentences.
4 smre_di_00534 Literary Devices Students learn to identify the influence of multiple narrators or shifts in point of view in a text.
smre_itr_001281 Literary Devices Students read the literary text, "Techno-farming." Then they answer literal and inferential questions, identify traits of characters, and make inferences. They also identify the effect of multiple narrators and different points of view.
smre_ip_001381 Literary Devices Students identify different points of view and the perspecives of different characters across texts.
smre_pp_00559 Literary Devices Students read a literary text and answer questions about different points of view.
5 smre_di_00420 Literary Devices Students learn to recognize plot elements such as conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution.
smre_itr_01420 Literary Devices Students read the literary text, "Chelsea's Disappointment." Students also recognize plot elements (conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution); identify characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits and feelings; and use question-and-answer relationships (Right There, Think and Search).
smre_ip_01320 Literary Devices Students recognize plot elements such as conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution.
6 smre_di_00419 Literary Devices Students learn to understand and interpret analogies.
smre_itr_01419 Literary Devices Students read the informational text, "Earth's Place in Space: The Milky Way." Students also interpret analogies, use question-and-answer relationships (Right There, Think and Search), compare and contrast ideas, and draw valid conclusions.
smre_ip_01319 Literary Devices Students interpret analogies in a standardized test format.
7 smre_di_02529 Literary Devices Students learn about personification.
smre_itr_02529 Literary Devices Students read the poem, "The Voice of Spring." Then they draw conclusions and use structural elements to answer questions. They also identify how personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia contributes to the poem's tone.
smre_ip_02529 Literary Devices Students identify how different types of figurative language contributes to the tone of a poem.
smre_pp_02529 Literary Devices Students read a poem and use personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia to understand the meaning and tone.
1 smre_di_00414 Organizational Patterns of Text Students learn to identify compare and contrast organizational patterns in an expository text.
smre_itr_01414 Organizational Patterns of Text Students read the informational text, "The Tengu of Japanese Mythology." Students also analyze organizational patterns (compare and contrast), identify cause-and-effect relationships, differentiate between fact, opinion, and bias, summarize text, and use question-and-answer relationships (Right There).
smre_ip_01314 Organizational Patterns of Text Students identify compare and contrast organizational patterns.
smre_pp_00539 Organizational Patterns of Text Students read a passage and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast information.
1 smre_di_00531 Skills Students learn to evaluate an author's argument and claims in a text. They also learn to identify rhetorical appeals.
smre_itr_001278 Skills Students read the informational text, "Playgrounds for Everyone." Then they answer literal and inferential questions, identify problem and solution structure, identify the author's claim using supporting evidence, and identify rhetorical appeals.
smre_ip_001378 Skills Students identify authors' claims using supporting evidence. They also identify rhetorical appeals.
smre_pp_00556 Skills Students evaluate the arguments and claims of a text.
2 smre_di_02528 Skills Students learn to compare and contrast how authors from different time periods address similar topics.
smre_itr_02528 Skills Students read the informational texts: "The Movement of Citizens" and "The United States Moves West." Then they answer literal and inferntial questions, identify the author's purpose, and identify cause-and-effect relationships. They also compare and contrast the presentation of events between different authors.
smre_ip_02528 Skills Students compare and contrast how authors from different time periods address similar topics.
smre_pp_02528 Skills Students compare and contrast texts from different authors.
3 smre_di_00412 Skills Students learn to analyze and compare authors' purposes in multiple accounts of the same event.
smre_itr_01412 Skills Students read the informational texts, "The Great Migration" and "Robert Abbott's Dream." Then they identify the main idea, answer inferential questions, and draw conclusions. They also analyze authors' purposes in different accounts of the same event.
smre_ip_01312 Skills Students analyze authors' purposes using different accounts of the same event.
smre_pp_00625 Skills Students analyze authors' purposes using different accounts of the same event.
4 smre_di_00404 Skills Students learn to distinguish fact from opinion.
smre_itr_01404 Skills Students read an excerpt from the informational text, "North to the Pole with Matthew Henson." Students also distinguish fact from opinion, identify cause-and-effect relationships, identify the main idea of the passage, answer inferential questions, and make predictions.
smre_ip_01304 Skills Students distinguish fact from opinion.
5 smre_di_00422 Skills Students learn to draw conclusions based on explicit information.
smre_itr_01422 Skills Students read the informational text, "Algal Blooms." Students also draw conclusions based on explicit information, make predictions, identify cause-and-effect relationships, summarize information, and use question-and-answer relationships (Right There).
smre_ip_01322 Skills Students draw conclusions based on explicit information.
smre_pp_00506 Skills Students read a passage and draw conclusions based on information in the text.
6 smre_di_00402 Skills Students learn to identify cause-and-effect relationships.
smre_itr_01402 Skills Students read the informational text, "Wild Waters." Students also identify cause-and-effect relationships, make inferences, and use question-and-answer relationships (Right There, Text and You).
smre_ip_01302 Skills Students identify cause-and-effect relationships.
smre_pp_00501 Skills Students read a passage and complete a table to show cause-and-effect relationships.
7 smre_di_00400 Skills Students learn to identify the main idea and supporting details of a passage.
smre_itr_01400 Skills Students read the informational text, "Bessie Coleman: American Legend." Students also identify the main idea and supporting details of a passage, summarize text, and use question-and-answer relationships (Right There, Think and Search).
smre_ip_01300 Skills Students identify the main idea and supporting details of short paragraphs.
smre_pp_00500 Skills Students read a passage and identify the main ideas and supporting details.
8 smre_di_00406 Skills Students learn to paraphrase information from a text.
smre_itr_01406 Skills Students read the poem, "New Navigation." Students also paraphrase information, use question-and-answer relationships (Right There), summarize text, make inferences, and determine the author's purpose.
smre_ip_01306 Skills Students paraphrase information from paragraphs.
smre_pp_00537 Skills Students read a passage and paraphrase information.
1 smre_di_00410 Strategies Students learn to make inferences.
smre_itr_01410 Strategies Students read the informational text, "The Ghost of Blythswood Square." Students also make inferences, use question-and-answer relationships (Right There, Think and Search), identify the main idea, summarize text, and analyze author's word choice.
smre_ip_01310 Strategies Students read paragraphs and make inferences.
2 smre_di_00408 Strategies Students learn to make predictions based on information from a text.
smre_itr_01408 Strategies Students read the play, "Surprise Party." Students also make predictions, identify characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits, and feelings, recognize elements of plot, analyze how characters in literature deal with conflict, solve problems, and relate to real-life situations, and make inferences.
smre_ip_01308 Strategies Students read paragraphs and make predictions.
smre_pp_00538 Strategies Students read a passage and practice making predictions by answering questions.
3 smre_di_00418 Strategies Students learn to summarize text by distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information.
smre_itr_01418 Strategies Students read an excerpt from the informational text, "Earth's Place in Space: Studying Space." Students also summarize information, identify the main idea and supporting details, identify the author's view point and bias, draw conclusions, and use question-and-answer relationships (Right There).
smre_ip_01318 Strategies Students summarize information distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information.
smre_pp_00505 Strategies Students read a passage and paraphrase the information in their own words.
4 smre_di_00416 Strategies Students learn to use question-and-answer relationships to answer Right There questions.
smre_itr_01416 Strategies Students read the Greek myth, "Demeter and Persephone." Students use question-and-answer relationships (Right There, Think and Search), make and confirm predictions, identify cause-and-effect relationships, and identify characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits and feelings.
smre_ip_01316 Strategies Students use question-and-answer relationships to answer Right There questions.
smre_pp_00540 Strategies Students read passage excerpts and answer questions to improve comprehension.

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