Lemon Road Elementary School
Essential Standards of Performance for Sixth Grade
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Falls Church, VA 22043
Many things will be taught during this school year in English/Language Arts and Mathematics, but the standards listed below constitute a summary of the most important concepts your child will be expected to master in sixth grade.
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS
Oral Language
6.2 The student will listen critically and express opinions in oral presentations.
a) Distinguish between fact and opinion.
b) Compare and contrast viewpoints.
6.3 The student will read and learn the meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases.
b) Identify analogies and figurative language.
c) Use context to determine meanings and differentiate from multiple meanings of words.
6.4 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fiction, narrative nonfiction, and poetry.
a) Identify the elements of narrative structure, including setting, character, plot, conflict, and theme.
6.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of informational selections.
d) Draw conclusions and make inferences based on explicit and implied information.
f) Compare and contrast information about one topic contained in different selections.
Writing
6.6 The student will write narratives, descriptions, and explanations.
b) Establish central idea, organization, elaboration, and unity.
c) Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice.
6.7 The student will edit writing for correct CPGS and sentence structure.
a) Use a variety of graphic organizers, including sentence diagrams to
analyze and improve sentence formation and paragraph structure.
d) Maintain consistent tense inflections across paragraphs.
MATHEMATICS
Number and Number Sense
6.1 The student will identify representations of a given percent and describe orally and in writing the equivalent relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents.
6.5 The student will identify, represent, order, and compare integers.
Computation and Estimation
6.6 The student will
a) solve problems that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and/or division with fractions and mixed numbers that include like and unlike denominators of 12 or less, and express their answers in simplest form.
b) find the quotient, given a dividend expressed as a decimal through thousandths and a divisor expressed as a decimal to thousandths.
Measurement
6.9 The student will compare and convert units of measure for length, area, weight/mass, and volume within the U.S. Customary system or the metric system and estimate conversions between units in each system.
6.12 The student will
a) solve problems involving the circumference and/or area of a circle when given the diameter or radius.
Geometry
6.14 The student will identify, classify, and describe the characteristics of plane figures, describing their similarities, differences, and defining properties.
6.16 The student will construct the perpendicular bisector of a line segment and an angle bisector.
Probability and Statistics
6.18 The student will collect, analyze, display, and interpret data using:
a) circle graphs
c) box-and-whisker plots.
6.20 The student will
b) determine and interpret the probability of an event occurring using a ratio, decimal, or percent.
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
6.22 The student will investigate and describe concepts of positive exponents, perfect squares, square roots, and, for numbers greater than 10, scientific notation.
6.23 The student will
a) model and solve algebraic equations, using concrete materials;
b) solve one-step linear equations with one variable, involving whole number coefficients and positive rational solutions; and
c) use the following algebraic terms appropriately: variable, coefficient, term, and equation.
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Curator: Sally Bryan
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