English Language Arts Grade 6
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Reading: Literature Standard 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.

• Higher Order Questions: A Path to Deeper Learning
  This Teaching Channel Video helps students create higher order questions in order to analyze and discuss a text.
• Plot Diagram (Student Interactive)
  The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories.

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