South Dakota ELA 6.W.9
The Standard
Draw relevant evidence from literary or informational texts to support written analysis, reflection, and research, applying one or more grade 6 standards for Reading Literature or Reading Informational texts.
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use details from stories or articles to answer a question in writing. They quote or paraphrase those details and explain how each one supports their analysis, reflection, or research finding.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can make a point about a character's choice or an article's central idea, then choose details that fit. The student explains how each detail supports the point instead of just retelling the text.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may pick a vivid quote that does not support their point. They may also drop in a quote without explaining it, or treat their own opinion as evidence from the text.
How to Assess It
- Using the article the class read today, ask students to write its central idea, add one supporting detail, and explain in one sentence how the detail supports it.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed story and sticky notes; have them mark two details that explain a character's choice, then write a claim.
Ask: Which detail best shows why the character changed? Write three sentences explaining your choice.
Play Evidence Sort: teams match claims about an article to supporting sentence strips and set aside one unrelated detail.
Read a local library program flyer; write a recommendation for a friend using two details from the flyer.
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