Grade 6 English: Informational and Argumentative Reading
Free Grade 6 English unit on Informational and Argumentative Reading: 10 lessons in order. Includes practice questions and answer keys.
10 lessons in this unit
Central ideas
Identify the central idea of an informational text and explain how key details support it.
Lesson 2Summarising complex texts
Write an objective summary of a complex text that keeps the central idea and key details without personal opinion.
Lesson 3Text structure
Identify informational text structures (cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, sequence, description) and explain how they organise ideas.
Lesson 4Evaluating claims
Identify claims in argumentative texts and evaluate whether they are supported by relevant, sufficient reasons and evidence.
Lesson 5Evidence and opinion
Distinguish evidence (facts, statistics, expert testimony) from opinion and judge how each is used in an argument.
Lesson 6Author’s purpose
Determine an author’s purpose (to inform, persuade, entertain or explain) and the techniques used to achieve it.
Lesson 7Perspective and bias
Recognise an author’s perspective and bias, and identify loaded language, omissions and one-sided presentation.
Lesson 8Comparing arguments
Compare two arguments on the same issue, evaluating their claims, reasons, evidence and strength.
Lesson 9Synthesising information
Combine information from two or more texts to build a new understanding, noting agreements, differences and gaps.
Lesson 10Evaluating conclusions
Evaluate whether a conclusion follows logically from the evidence, spotting overgeneralisation and unsupported leaps.