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Alabama 4 Recognize the use of text elements, including implied main idea, explicit cause-effect relationships, and persuasive techniques, in sixth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
4.1 Identifying details related to main idea
- Book Week Celebrations
- Literature: "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
- Literature: "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Literature: "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
- Literature: "Love That Dog" by Sharon Creech
- Literature: "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
- Literature: "The Barcode Tattoo" by Suzanne Weyn
- Literature: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne
- Literature: "The Face on the Milk Carton" by Caroline Cooney
- Literature: "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "The House of Dies Drear" by Virginia Hamilton
- Literature: "The Hundred Dresses" by Eleanor Estes
- Literature: "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
- Literature: "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
- Literature: "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Literature: "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
- Literature: "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
- Literature: "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
- Literature: "We Beat the Street" by Drs. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins
- Reading Skills: Main Idea for Middle School Students
- Writing: Text Structures
