ELA.6.W.3

The drafting standard: how a piece gets developed within its genre, with evidence and attribution.

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ELA.6.W.3

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Students draft content within the genre, using technology appropriately.

  1. a.Generate ideas for topics, genres, and material.
  2. b.Select and organize ideas and material, including findings from research and/or multimedia artifacts, identifying when and how it's fair to use the creative work of others.
  3. c.Follow, adapt, or combine genre-specific text elements from mentor texts.
  4. d.Develop descriptions with concrete, sensory, and/or abstract details and figurative language to help the audience imagine and empathize with the content.
  5. e.Develop analysis of experience, events, information, ideas, and/or texts by identifying relationships, patterns, causes, or connections.
  6. f.Support analysis by using evidence from texts, paraphrasing, summarizing, and/or selecting quotations when relevant.
  7. g.Support claims with relevant and credible evidence.
  8. h.Use persuasive techniques, including arguments, and appeals to emotion and reason.
  9. i.Use a variety of narrative techniques and devices consistent with the genre.
  10. j.Attribute sources in ways consistent with the genre, using technology appropriately.

Common Core: RI.6.2 W.6.1 W.6.1a W.6.1b W.6.1c W.6.2 W.6.2a W.6.2b W.6.2d W.6.3 W.6.3a W.6.3b W.6.3c W.6.3d W.6.8

ResourcesWIDAOSPI

WIDA language connections1

Inform · Expressivespeaking, writing and representing

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

Construct informational texts in language arts that…

  • Introduce and define topic and/or entity for audience
  • Establish objective or neutral stance
  • Add precision, details, and clarity about relevant attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and behaviors
  • Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text

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

From OSPI

Smarter Balanced interim assessment

  • Write and Revise Narratives
    • Writing Target 1a, item 8
  • Analyze and Integrate Information
    • Research Target 2, items 3, 8
  • Write and Revise Explanatory Texts
    • Writing Target 3a, items 4, 8
  • Performance Task (Explanatory): Ancient Aztecs
    • Writing Target 4, item 3
  • Research: Use Evidence
    • Research Target 4, items 1, 3, 4, 5, 10
  • Write and Revise Argumentative Texts
    • Writing Target 6a, item 6

On the SBA

PRISM's read

Short writing and research items across narrative, explanatory and argumentative blocks, plus using evidence from sources.

OSPI's interim connections

  • Write and Revise Narratives
    • Claim 2: Writing, Target 1a, item 8
  • Analyze and Integrate Information
    • Claim 4: Research/Inquiry, Target 2: Analyze and Integrate Information, items 3, 8
  • Write and Revise Explanatory Texts
    • Claim 2: Writing, Target 3a, items 4, 8
  • Performance Task (Explanatory): Ancient Aztecs
    • Claim 2: Writing, Target 4: Compose Full Texts, item 3
  • Research: Use Evidence
    • Claim 4: Research/Inquiry, Target 4: Use Evidence, items 1, 3, 4, 5, 10
  • Write and Revise Argumentative Texts
    • Claim 2: Writing, Target 6a, item 6

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.R.5PriorityParaphrasing, summarizing and quoting from a text (W.3 part f) is how this analysis shows up in writing.Students analyze texts, introducing and attributing textual evidence when relevant.ELA.6.W.1PriorityW.1 names why students are writing. W.3 is how they draft it.Students compose multimodal texts in a variety of genres across content areas for a variety of purposes.ELA.6.W.4Organizing content by the genre's structure happens alongside drafting it.Students organize content by using and/or adapting the genre's structure based on purpose.ELA.6.RML.1PriorityW.3 part b draws on findings from research, and RML.1 is how those findings get found.Students engage in research and inquiry by asking questions and seeking answers from information sources.

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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