Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.A:
Students use at least three sources of information, with appropriate citations, to develop reports.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.B:
Students take notes to record and organize relevant data, facts, and ideas.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.C:
Students state a main idea and support it with details and examples.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.D:
Students compare and contrast ideas and information from two or three sources.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.E:
Students adopt an organizational format, such as chronological order, that is appropriate for informational writing.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.F:
Students use paragraphing to organize ideas and information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.G:
Students use paraphrasing, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.H:
Students maintain a portfolio that includes informational writing.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.I:
Students include relevant and exclude irrelevant information, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.J:
Students connect, compare, and contrast ideas and information from one or more sources, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.K:
Students support ideas with examples, definitions, analogies, and direct references to the text, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.1.L:
Students answer questions about informational material and write accurate and complete responses, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.A:
Students write original literary texts:

• use organizing structures, such as stanzas, chapters, scenes, and verses
• develop characters, create a setting, and establish a plot
• use examples of literary devices, such as rhythm, rhyme, simile, and personification
• establish a consistent point of view (e.g., first or third person)
• use vocabulary to create a desired effect

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.B:
Students write interpretive essays to:

• summarize the plot
• describe the characters and explain how they change
• describe the setting and recognize its importance to the story
• draw a conclusion about the work
• interpret the impact of literary devices, such as simile and personification
• recognize the impact of rhythm and rhyme in poems

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.C:
Students respond to literature, connecting the response to personal experience.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.D:
Students maintain a writing portfolio that includes literary, interpretive, and responsive writing.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.E:
Students express opinions and support them through specific references to the text, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.F:
Students demonstrate understanding of plot and theme, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.G:
Students identify and describe characters and their motivations, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.H:
Students analyze the impact of the setting, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.I:
Students identify how the use of literary devices, such as symbolism, metaphor and simile, personification, and flashback, affects meaning, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.J:
Students draw conclusions and provide reasons for the conclusions, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.2.K:
Students compare and contrast characters, setting, mood, and voice in more than one literary text or performance, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.A:
Students use strategies, such as note taking, semantic webbing or mapping, and outlining, to plan and organize writing.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.B:
Students use supporting evidence from text to evaluate ideas, information, themes, or experiences.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.C:
Students analyze the impact of an event or issue from personal, peer group, and school community perspectives.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.D:
Students use information and ideas from other subject areas and personal experiences to form and express opinions and judgments.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.E:
Students adopt an organizational format (e.g., compare/contrast) appropriate for critical analysis and evaluation.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.F:
Students use precise vocabulary in writing analysis and evaluation.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.G:
Students maintain a writing portfolio that includes writing for critical analysis and evaluation.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.H:
Students present clear analysis, using examples, details, and reasons from text, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.I:
Students select content and choose strategies for written presentation on the basis of audience, purpose, and content, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.J:
Students explain connections between and among texts to extend the meaning of each individual text, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.3.K:
Students compare and contrast literary elements in more than one genre and/or by more than one author, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.4.A:
Students share the process of writing with peers and adults; for example, write a condolence note, get well-card, or thank-you letter with a writing partner or in small groups.

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

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.4.C:
Students develop a personal voice that enables the reader to get to know the writer.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.4.D:
Students write personal reactions about experiences, events, and observations, using a form of social communication.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.W.4.E:
Students maintain a portfolio that includes writing for social communication.