South Dakota ELA 6.RI.2

6.RI.2 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 6.RI.2.a

  Analyze its development over the course of the text.

• 6.RI.2.b

  Identify key textual details to support the analysis.

• 6.RI.2.c

  Provide an objective summary of the text.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify one or more main ideas and track how the writer builds them across the text. They choose details that show this development and summarize the text without adding opinions.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student names the main idea in their own words and explains how details from different parts of the text develop it. Their summary covers the main points without personal reactions or minor examples.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may mistake the topic, such as food waste, for what the text says about it. They may list facts without explaining how those facts build an idea, or put their opinion in the summary.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a one-page article about cafeteria food waste. Ask: "State its main idea, show how two details from different parts develop it, then summarize the article in two neutral sentences."

1. 01

   Give pairs a printed article about cafeteria food waste and three sticky notes to label how its opening, middle, and ending build the main idea.

2. 02

   Ask: "How does a fact in the middle of the cafeteria waste article sharpen the idea introduced at the start?"

3. 03

   Give teams six sentences from the article to sort into supports the main idea or interesting but minor, then defend two choices.

4. 04

   Read a school cafeteria waste notice and write a two-sentence summary for the class newsletter that leaves out personal opinions.

• 8.RI.2

  Determine a central idea(s) of a text.

• 7.RL.2

  Determine a theme or central idea(s) of a text.

• 6.RL.2

  Determine a theme or central idea(s) of a text.

• 8.RL.2

  Determine a theme or central idea(s) of a text.