Grade 6 PSSA Eligible Content

Informational
Text
Key Ideas and Eligible Content Eligible Content Eligible Content
Details
Cite textual evidence to support Determine a central idea of a Analyze in detail how a key
analysis of what the text says text and how it is conveyed individual, event, or idea is
explicitly as well as inferences through relevant details, introduced, illustrated, or
and/or generalizations from the provide a summary of the text elaborated in a text (e.g.,
text. distinct from personal options through examples, anecdotes,
or judgments. or sequence of steps.)

Craft and Eligible Content Eligible Content Eligible Content

Structure
Determine an author’s point of
view or purpose in a text and
explain how it is conveyed in the
text.
Analyze how a particular
sentence, paragraph, chapter,
section, or text feature fits into
the overall structure of a text
and contributes to the
development of the ideas.
Determine how the author uses
the meaning of words or
phrases, including figurative,
connotative, or technical
meaning, in a text.

Integration of Eligible Content Eligible Content

Knowledge and
Ideas
Trace and evaluate the
argument and specific claims in
a text, distinguishing claims that
are supported by reasons and
evidence from claims that are
not (e.g. fact/opinion,bias).
Compare and contrast one
author’s presentation of events
with that of another (e.g., a
memoir written by and
biography on the same person).

Text Dependent
Analysis
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Introduce text(s) for Develop the Use appropriate Use precise Establish and Provide a
the intended analysis using a transitions to language and maintain a formal concluding
audience, state an variety of clarify the domain-specific style. section related to
opinion and/or
evidence from relationships vocabulary to the analysis
topic, establish a
text(s) to support among ideas and inform about or presented.
situation, and
create an claims, opinions, concepts. explain the topic
organizational ideas, and and/or convey the
structure in which inferences and experience and
ideas are logically demonstrating an events.
grouped to support understanding of
the writer’s the text(s).
purpose.