CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.3b
ELA6th GradeKnowledge of Language
The Standard
Maintain consistency in style and tone.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
What This Standard Means
Students need to keep their writing sounding like it belongs to one speaker, purpose, and audience. They should notice when a sentence suddenly becomes too casual, too formal, too dramatic, or too silly compared with the rest of the piece.
Mastery looks like a student revising word choice, sentence patterns, and voice so the whole paragraph feels steady. Students often get stuck when they mix texting language with formal writing, copy phrases from sources, or shift from serious to jokey without meaning to.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students a mixed-tone paragraph and highlighters, then have them mark sentences that sound too formal, casual, or off-topic.
- Ask students to rewrite a school announcement twice, once for sixth graders and once for parents, then explain the tone choices.
- Show three sentences from one paragraph and ask which sentence breaks the style or tone, then have students fix it.
- Have students compare a restaurant review on Yelp with a newspaper review, then list words that create each writer’s tone.
Before This Standard
If students are struggling here, check these first.
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