Grade 6 English Language Arts standard map

Vary sentence patterns

ELA.6.L.2Not yet reviewed by a teacher

Sentence patterns that show how ideas relate: parallel structure, clauses, transitions, verb tenses.

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Grade 5

ELA.5.L.2PriorityBuild and refine sentences

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ELA.6.W.5PriorityRevise and edit

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Grade 7

ELA.7.L.2Vary sentence patterns

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ELA.6.L.2

Students vary sentence patterns for meaning, clarity, and style in conversations and writing about experiences, events, and ideas.

a.Develop well-formed sentences (syntax) to communicate relationships among ideas, including use of parallel structure.
b.Use phrases, clauses, and transitions with punctuation to communicate relationships among ideas.
c.Use verb tenses and modal auxiliaries to communicate time, sequence, states, and conditions.

Common Core: W.6.1d W.6.2e L.6.1 L.6.3 L.6.3a L.6.3b

ResourcesWIDAOSPI

WIDA language connections1

Argue · Expressivespeaking, writing and representing

ELD-LA.6-8.Argue.Expressive · Language for Language Arts, Grades 6-8

Construct language arts arguments that…

Introduce and develop claim(s) and acknowledge counterclaim(s)
Support claims with reasons and evidence that are clear, relevant, and credible
Logically organize claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence; offer a conclusion

OSPI's example connections to the WIDA ELD Standards Framework. How to read these

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Smarter Balanced interim assessment

Editing
- Writing Target 9, items 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

How this map was made

Every connection is PRISM's own, written against OSPI's 2026 wording, with the reason for it. They were written by an AI ahead of time and are marked until a teacher has read them, so treat them as a starting point. The idea of a map like this comes from Achieve the Core's Coherence Map for Common Core math.