Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.A:
Students locate and use school and public library resources, with some direction, to acquire information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.B:
Students use the table of contents and indexes to locate information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.C:
Students read to collect and interpret data, facts, and ideas from multiple sources.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.D:
Students read the steps of a procedure in order to accomplish a task such as completing a science experiment or installing software.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.E:
Students skim material to gain an overview of content or locate specific information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.F:
Students use text features, such as headings, captions, and titles, to understand and interpret informational texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.G:
Students recognize organizational formats to assist in comprehension of informational texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.H:
Students identify missing, conflicting, unclear, and irrelevant information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.I:
Students distinguish between fact and opinion.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.J:
Students identify information that is implied rather than stated.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.K:
Students compare and contrast information about one topic from multiple sources.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.L:
Students recognize how new information is related to prior knowledge or experience.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.M:
Students identify main ideas and supporting details in informational texts to distinguish relevant and irrelevant information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.N:
Students apply thinking skills, such as define, classify, and infer, to interpret data, facts, and ideas from informational texts, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.O:
Students use knowledge of structure, content, and vocabulary to understand informational texts, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.P:
Students condense, combine, or categorize new information from one or more sources, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.Q:
Students draw conclusions and make inferences on the basis of explicit and implied information, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.1.R:
Students make, confirm, or revise predictions, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.A:
Students read, view, and interpret texts from a variety of genres.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.B:
Students define characteristics of different genres.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.C:
Students select literary texts on the basis of personal needs and interests and read silently for enjoyment for extended periods.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.D:
Students read aloud from a variety of genres (e.g., plays and poems):

• use inflection and intonation appropriate to text read and audience

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.E:
Students recognize that the same story can be told in different genres (e.g., novels, poems, or plays).

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.F:
Students identify literary elements, (e.g., setting, plot, character, rhythm, and rhyme) of different genres.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.G:
Students recognize how the author uses literary devices, such as simile, metaphor, and personification, to create meaning.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.H:
Students recognize how different authors treat similar themes.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.I:
Students identify the ways in which characters change and develop throughout a story.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.J:
Students interpret characters, plot, setting, and theme, using evidence from the text, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.K:
Students identify the author's point of view, such as first-person narrator and omniscient narrator, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.L:
Students determine how the use and meaning of literary devices, such as symbolism, metaphor and simile, alliteration, personification, flashback, and foreshadowing, convey the author's message or intent, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.M:
Students recognize how the author's use of language creates images or feelings, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.N:
Students identify poetic elements, such as repetition, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, in order to interpret poetry, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.O:
Students identify social and cultural context and other characteristics of the time period to enhance understanding and appreciation of text, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.3.A:
Students evaluate information, ideas, opinions, and themes by identifying:

• a central idea and supporting details
• precise and vague language
• statements of fact, opinion, and exaggeration
• missing or unclear information

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.3.B:
Students use established and personal criteria to analyze and evaluate the quality of ideas and information in text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.3.C:
Students identify different perspectives, such as social, cultural, ethnic, and historical, on an issue presented in one or more than one text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.3.D:
Students recognize how one's own point of view contributes to forming an opinion about information and ideas.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.3.E:
Students evaluate, with assistance, the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to:

• identify conflicting information
• consider the background and qualifications of the writer
• evaluate examples, details, or reasons used to support ideas
• identify differing points of view in texts and presentations
• identify cultural and ethnic values and their impact on content, with assistance
• identify multiple levels of meaning

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.4.A:
Students share reading experiences to build a relationship with peers or adults; for example, read together silently or aloud with a partner or in small groups.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.4.B:
Students respect the age, gender, position, and cultural traditions of the writer.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.4.C:
Students recognize the types of language (e.g., jargon, colloquialisms, informal vocabulary, and email conventions) that are appropriate to social communication.