This document outlines the checklist for the 6th grade second quarter language arts assessment. It includes expectations in writing, reading, conventions, and word study. In writing, students are expected to support judgments with text references and organize interpretations around clear ideas. In reading, students should identify speakers and explain literary techniques. Conventions focuses on pronouns, sentences, verbs, and capitalization. Word study covers prefixes, roots, and suffixes.

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