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Subject Area - CC.1:
English Language Arts
  • Standard Area - CC.1.4: Writing: Students write for different purposes and audiences. Students write clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content.
  • Grade Level - CC.1.4.6: GRADE 6
Standard - CC.1.4.6.A

Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information clearly.

Standard - CC.1.4.6.B

Identify and introduce the topic for the intended audience.

Eligible Content:
12 Total
PASA DLM
Essential Elements (EE)
Assessments
Materials & Resources
  • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
  • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
    • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
      • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
        Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
          • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
            Continuum of Activities
            Materials & Resources
          • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
            Continuum of Activities
            Materials & Resources
          • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
            Continuum of Activities
            Materials & Resources
          • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
            Continuum of Activities
            Materials & Resources
          • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
            Continuum of Activities
            Materials & Resources
          • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
            Continuum of Activities
            Materials & Resources
        Standard - CC.1.4.6.C

        Develop and analyze the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

        Eligible Content:
        12 Total
        PASA DLM
        Essential Elements (EE)
        Assessments
        Materials & Resources
        • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
        • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
          • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
            • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
              Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
                  Continuum of Activities
                  Materials & Resources
                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
                  Continuum of Activities
                  Materials & Resources
                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                  Continuum of Activities
                  Materials & Resources
                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
                  Continuum of Activities
                  Materials & Resources
                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                  Continuum of Activities
                  Materials & Resources
                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
                  Continuum of Activities
                  Materials & Resources
              Standard - CC.1.4.6.D

              Organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts; provide a concluding statement or section; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension.

              Eligible Content:
              12 Total
              Assessments
              Materials & Resources
              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                    • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
                        Continuum of Activities
                        Materials & Resources
                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
                        Continuum of Activities
                        Materials & Resources
                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                        Continuum of Activities
                        Materials & Resources
                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
                        Continuum of Activities
                        Materials & Resources
                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                        Continuum of Activities
                        Materials & Resources
                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
                        Continuum of Activities
                        Materials & Resources
                    Standard - CC.1.4.6.E

                    Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition. • Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. • Use sentences of varying lengths and complexities • Develop and maintain a consistent voice • Establish and maintain a formal style

                    Eligible Content:
                    17 Total
                    Assessments
                    Materials & Resources
                    • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                    • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                    • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.2.1 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.1 Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.2 Maintain consistency in style and tone.
                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.3 Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.
                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.4 Choose punctuation for effect.
                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.5 Choose words and phrases for effect.
                              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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                                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
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                                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                  Continuum of Activities
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                                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
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                                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
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                                • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
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                              Standard - CC.1.4.6.F

                              Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

                              Eligible Content:
                              11 Total
                              PASA DLM
                              Essential Elements (EE)
                              Assessments
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                              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.1 Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (i.e., subjective, objective, and possessive).
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.2 Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.3 Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.4 Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.5 Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.6 Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.6a Produce a complete sentence.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.7 Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.8 Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
                              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.1.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.1 Use punctuation (e.g., commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.2 Spell correctly.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.3 Use punctuation to separate items in a series.
                              Standard - CC.1.4.6.G

                              Write arguments to support claims.

                              PASA DLM
                              Essential Elements (EE)
                              Standard - CC.1.4.6.H

                              Introduce and state an opinion on a topic.

                              Eligible Content:
                              11 Total
                              Assessments
                              Materials & Resources
                              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                              • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                                • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                                  • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                                    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                    • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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                                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
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                                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
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                                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
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                                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
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                                      • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
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                                    Standard - CC.1.4.6.I

                                    Use clear reasons and relevant evidence to support claims, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic.

                                    Eligible Content:
                                    11 Total
                                    PASA DLM
                                    Essential Elements (EE)
                                    Assessments
                                    Materials & Resources
                                    • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                    • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                    • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                                      • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                                        • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                                          Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
                                              Continuum of Activities
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                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                              Continuum of Activities
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                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
                                              Continuum of Activities
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                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
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                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
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                                          Standard - CC.1.4.6.J

                                          Organize the claim(s) with clear reasons and evidence clearly; clarify relationships among claim(s) and reasons by using words, phrases, and clauses; provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.

                                          Eligible Content:
                                          11 Total
                                          Assessments
                                          Materials & Resources
                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                    Continuum of Activities
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                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
                                                    Continuum of Activities
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                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                                    Continuum of Activities
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                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
                                                    Continuum of Activities
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                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                    Continuum of Activities
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                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
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                                                Standard - CC.1.4.6.K

                                                Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition. • Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. • Use sentences of varying lengths and complexities. • Develop and maintain a consistent voice • Establish and maintain a formal style.

                                                Eligible Content:
                                                16 Total
                                                Assessments
                                                Materials & Resources
                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                      • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.2.1 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
                                                        • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.1 Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
                                                        • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.2 Maintain consistency in style and tone.
                                                        • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.3 Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.
                                                        • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.4 Choose punctuation for effect.
                                                        • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.5 Choose words and phrases for effect.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              Continuum of Activities
                                                              Materials & Resources
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
                                                              Continuum of Activities
                                                              Materials & Resources
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                                              Continuum of Activities
                                                              Materials & Resources
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
                                                              Continuum of Activities
                                                              Materials & Resources
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                              Continuum of Activities
                                                              Materials & Resources
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
                                                              Continuum of Activities
                                                              Materials & Resources
                                                          Standard - CC.1.4.6.L

                                                          Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

                                                          Eligible Content:
                                                          11 Total
                                                          PASA DLM
                                                          Essential Elements (EE)
                                                          Assessments
                                                          Materials & Resources
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.1 Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (i.e., subjective, objective, and possessive).
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.2 Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.3 Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.4 Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.5 Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.6 Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.6a Produce a complete sentence.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.7 Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.8 Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.1.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.1 Use punctuation (e.g., commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.2 Spell correctly.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.3 Use punctuation to separate items in a series.
                                                          Standard - CC.1.4.6.M

                                                          Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.

                                                          PASA DLM
                                                          Essential Elements (EE)
                                                          Standard - CC.1.4.6.N

                                                          Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters.

                                                          Eligible Content:
                                                          5 Total
                                                          Assessments
                                                          Materials & Resources
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          Standard - CC.1.4.6.O

                                                          Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters; use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.

                                                          Eligible Content:
                                                          5 Total
                                                          PASA DLM
                                                          Essential Elements (EE)
                                                          Assessments
                                                          Materials & Resources
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          Standard - CC.1.4.6.P

                                                          Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically, using a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another; provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences and events.

                                                          Eligible Content:
                                                          5 Total
                                                          PASA DLM
                                                          Essential Elements (EE)
                                                          Assessments
                                                          Materials & Resources
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          Standard - CC.1.4.6.Q

                                                          Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of writing. • Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style. • Use precise language. • Develop and maintain a consistent voice.

                                                          Eligible Content:
                                                          10 Total
                                                          Assessments
                                                          Materials & Resources
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1 Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience and support the writer’s purpose by organizing the reasons and evidence.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2 Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.2a Use two evidence statements to support claim.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.3 Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.4 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5 Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.5a Indentify an ending statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1 Introduce a topic for the intended audience; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.1a Select a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2 Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.2a Identify relevant facts or concrete details to support topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.4a Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.1.1a Introduce a claim.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.2.6a Identify an ending statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                          • Anchor Descriptor - E06.C.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1 Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.1a Introduce a topic for a narrative that includes at least two characters.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2 Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.2a Convey two or more events.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3 Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.3a Descrie sequence of two or more events using transitional words.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.4 Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
                                                            • Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5 Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
                                                              • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.C.1.3.5a Provide a concluding statement.
                                                                Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.2.1 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.1 Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.2 Maintain consistency in style and tone.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.3 Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.4 Choose punctuation for effect.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.5 Choose words and phrases for effect.
                                                                Standard - CC.1.4.6.R

                                                                Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

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                                                                11 Total
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                                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.1 Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (i.e., subjective, objective, and possessive).
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.2 Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.3 Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.4 Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.5 Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.6 Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.
                                                                    • Alternate Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.6a Produce a complete sentence.
                                                                      Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.7 Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.1.8 Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
                                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.1.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.1 Use punctuation (e.g., commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.2 Spell correctly.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.1.2.3 Use punctuation to separate items in a series.
                                                                Standard - CC.1.4.6.S

                                                                Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade-level reading standards for literature and literary nonfiction.

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                                                                6 Total
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                                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.E.1.1 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.1 Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.2 Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
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                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.3 Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
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                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.4 Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
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                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.5 Establish and maintain a formal style.
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                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.E.1.1.6 Provide a concluding section that follows from the analysis presented.
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                                                                Standard - CC.1.4.6.T

                                                                With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

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                                                                Standard - CC.1.4.6.U

                                                                Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.

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                                                                5 Total
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                                                                • Anchor Descriptor - E06.D.2.1 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.1 Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.2 Maintain consistency in style and tone.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.3 Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.4 Choose punctuation for effect.
                                                                  • Eligible Content - E06.D.2.1.5 Choose words and phrases for effect.
                                                                Standard - CC.1.4.6.V

                                                                Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.

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                                                                Standard - CC.1.4.6.W

                                                                Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of other while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.

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                                                                Standard - CC.1.4.6.X

                                                                Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes and audiences.

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