ELA.6.W.1

Names the reasons students write: to describe, inform, make a claim, persuade and tell stories.

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ELA.6.W.1

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Students compose multimodal texts in a variety of genres across content areas for a variety of purposes.

  1. a.Compose in order to describe experiences, ideas, and imaginings.
  2. b.Compose in order to record observations and/or inform others about their observations and explanations of the world.
  3. c.Compose in order to make a claim about an issue.
  4. d.Compose in order to persuade others.
  5. e.Compose in order to tell stories and narratives.

Common Core: W.6.1 W.6.2 W.6.3

ResourcesWIDAOSPI

WIDA language connections2

Narrate · Expressivespeaking, writing and representing

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

Construct language arts narratives that…

  • Develop story, including themes with complication and resolution, time, and event sequences
  • Engage and adjust for audience
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

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

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Smarter Balanced interim assessment

  • Performance Task (Explanatory): Ancient Aztecs
    • Writing Target 4, item 3

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A full composition on a performance task. That is the one place OSPI connects this standard to the test.

OSPI's interim connections

  • Performance Task (Explanatory): Ancient Aztecs
    • Claim 2: Writing, Target 4: Compose Full Texts, item 3

Smarter Balanced publishes its claims and targets in its content specifications, written to the Common Core. A 2026 standard reaches them through OSPI's crosswalk. Check them before anything official.

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ELA.6.W.3PriorityW.1 names why students are writing. W.3 is how they draft it.Students draft content within the genre, using technology appropriately.ELA.6.SLDF.3PrioritySLDF.3 part a names products from W.1 as sources for presentations.Students present reports, speeches, and creative work in a variety of genres such that listeners can empathize and/or follow the line of reasoning.

Standards text, priority flags, the Common Core crosswalk and the linked resources are published by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). PRISM is an independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by OSPI. The Standards for Mathematical Practice text is from the Common Core State Standards.

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