South Dakota ELA 6.RL.2

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

• 6.RL.2.a

  Analyze its development over the course of the text.

• 6.RL.2.b

  Provide an objective summary of the text.

• 6.RL.2.c

  Identify key textual details to support the analysis.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students state a message about life or people, not just a topic. They track how key events build that message and retell the main events without adding opinions.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student states a theme in a full sentence and uses details from the beginning, middle, and end to show how it develops. Their summary covers the main conflict and outcome without judgments or minor details.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may write “honesty” as the theme instead of making a claim about honesty. They may list events without explaining how those events build the theme, or add opinions to the summary.

04

How to Assess It

After reading “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” have students state a theme and name one detail each from the beginning, middle, and end that develops it. Ask for a two-sentence summary with no opinions.

1. 01

   Give groups three sticky notes to mark early, middle, and late moments in “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”; arrange them on a theme timeline.

2. 02

   Ask: Is “honesty” a theme or a topic in the fable? Write a fuller theme and support it with two scenes.

3. 03

   Give pairs six event cards from the fable; have them choose three needed for an accurate two-sentence summary.

4. 04

   Show a mock group-chat post falsely claiming school is closed; ask how the fable’s ending might predict classmates’ reactions to later posts.

• 6.RI.2

  Determine the central idea(s) of a text.

• 8.RI.2

  Determine a central idea(s) of a text.

• 7.RL.2

  The 7th Grade version of this standard.

• 8.RL.2

  The 8th Grade version of this standard.