Pennsylvania State Standards – Grade 6
S1.1.6.A: Apply appropriate strategies to describe author’s purpose, using grade level text.
S1.1.6.D: Demonstrate comprehension/understanding before reading, during reading and after reading on grade level texts through strategies such as summarizing, note-taking, extending ideas from text, comparing and contrasting texts, determining fact from opinion and supporting assertions about text with evidence from text.
Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards.