Grade 6 English Language Arts standard map

Purposes of media messages

ELA.6.RML.3Not yet reviewed by a teacher

What a media message is trying to do, and the techniques it uses to do it.

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ELA.7.RML.3Purposes of media messages

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ELA.6.RML.3

Students identify the purposes of media messages and how those purposes are achieved.

a.Determine whether the main purpose of a media message is to inform, persuade, sell, or entertain.
b.Describe the techniques, including appeals and integration of multimedia, used to achieve the media message’s purpose.

Common Core: RI.6.6

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WIDA language connections1

Inform · Interpretivelistening, reading and viewing

ELD-LA.6-8.Inform.Interpretive · Language for Language Arts, Grades 6-8

Interpret informational texts in language arts by…

Identifying and/or summarizing main ideas and their relationship to supporting ideas
Analyzing observations and descriptions in textual evidence for key attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and behaviors
Evaluating the impact of author’s key word choices over the course of a text

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

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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.