Reading-6th Grade

Catholic Standards

Catholic Standards for Literature

Reading Standards for Literature

Catholic Standards for Informational Text

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Accept and value how literature aids one to live harmoniously with others. CSDS1

Accept and value how literature assists one in interpreting and evaluating all things in a truly Christian spirit. CSDS2 

Share how literature cultivates appreciation of the beauty within the human person. CSDS3 

Share beautifully told and well-crafted works, especially those with elements of unity, harmony, and radiance of form. CSDS4

Share how literature ignites the creative imagination in healthy ways. CSDS5 

Share how literature assists in identifying, interpreting, and assimilating the culture handed down from previous generations. CSDS6 

Delight and wonder through the reading of creative, sound, and healthy stories, plays, and poems. CSDS7

Recognize literary characters possessing virtue and begin to exhibit these virtuous behaviors, values, and attitudes. CSDS8 

Analyze literature that reflects the transmission of a Catholic culture and worldview. CSGS1 

Analyze works of fiction and non-fiction to uncover authentic Truth. CSGS2 

Share how literature can contribute to strengthening one’s moral character. CSGS4 

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Students will use literary texts/materials to analyze text that reflects the transmission of the Catholic culture and worldview. CSGS1

Students will use literary texts/materials to analyze works of non-fiction to uncover authentic Truth. CSGS2

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

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

Determine a moral 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.

CSIS8: Identify how text develops the capacity for personal judgment. 

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. 

CSIS7: Identify the causes underlying why people do the things they do.

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in literary and Biblical texts, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

CSIS3&4: Recognize Christian symbols and symbolism and explain what they communicate.

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.

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

CSIS14: Analyze the author’s reasoning and discover the author’s intent.

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

Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories, Bible stories, historical novels, fantasy stories, poems, and other forms of literature) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics and how they relate to our Catholic Worldview.

CSIS8: Identify how literature develops the capacity for personal judgment. 

CSIS2: Articulate how spiritual knowledge and truth are represented and communicated through fairy tales, fables, myths, parables, and stories.

By the end of the year, read, comprehend, and show an appreciation for literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, appropriately complex for the individual student.

CSIS10: Analyze literature to identify, interpret, and assimilate the culture handed down from previous generations. 

CSIS1: Demonstrate how literature is used to develop a religious, moral, and social sense. 

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

CSIS8: Identify how text develops the capacity for personal judgment.

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

CSIS7: Identify the causes underlying why people do the things they do. 

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas and provides the understanding for Catholic beliefs, worship, living, and prayer life.

CSIS14: Explore and discover the author’s mind and intent. 

Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text. 

Integrate real world information and Catholic teachings presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

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., connect informational text to religious context).

CSIS1: Demonstrate how texts are used to develop a religious, moral, and social sense.

Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person). 

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction and show an appreciation for informational text appropriately complex for the individual student.

CSIS2: Articulate how spiritual knowledge and truth are represented and communicated through a variety of texts.