California ELA Standards Grade 6 CCSS Correlations

EMC Mirrors & Windows, Grade 6, Correlation to the California
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature is a complete language arts curriculum that meets 100% of the
California Common Core State Standards and integrates all English Language Arts strands: Reading, Writing, Speaking
and Listening, and Language. Media and research activities are blended into the lessons to promote 21st Century
college, workforce, and life skills. This comprehensive language arts program prepares students for success in whatever
path they may choose to take. The following grade-specific standards define what students need to know and do by
the end of Grade 6.
English Language Arts Standards, Grade 6

EMC Pages That Cover the Standards

Reading: Literature
Key Ideas and Details
RL.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly
as well as inferences drawn from the text.

9, 11, 23, 39, 55, 66, 73, 94, 102, 138, 147, 803

RL.6.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed
through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from
personal opinions or judgments.

Theme: 5, 56, 66, 149, 150, 152, 156, 157, 159,
296, 805
Summary: 283, 349, 440, 560, 786, 799, 813

RL.6.3

Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of
episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot
moves toward a resolution.

5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 213, 227, 621,
806

Craft and Structure

RL.6.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of
a specific word choice on meaning and tone. (See grade 6 Language
standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

Determine meaning: 170, 397, 486, 649,
812–814, 820, 821, 826–827
Analyze word choice: 398, 408, 457–458, 562,
755

RL.6.5

Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into
the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the
theme, setting, or plot.

4–5, 6–7, 260–261, 376–377, 456–457,
542–543, 620–621, 702–703

RL.6.6

Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or
speaker in a text.

5, 94, 134, 137, 147, 272, 285, 302, 311, 349

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

RL.6.7

Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem
to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text,
including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text
to what they perceive when they listen or watch.

252–253, 636, 686, 892, 896

RL.6.8

(Not applicable to literature.)

Not Applicable to Literature per CCSS guidelines

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