WA.SEL.6-8.1B
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 1: Self-Awareness
Standard: Demonstrates awareness of personal and collective identity encompassing strengths, areas for growth, aspirations, and cultural and linguistic assets.
WA.SEL.6-8.1C
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 1: Self-Awareness
Standard: Demonstrates self-awareness and understanding of external influences, e.g., culture, family, school, and community resources and supports.
WA.SEL.6-8.2B
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 2: Self-Management
Standard: Demonstrates responsible decision-making and problem-solving skills.
WA.SEL.6-8.3B
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 3: Self-Efficacy
Standard: Demonstrates problem-solving skills to engage responsibly in a variety of situations.
WA.SEL.6-8.4A
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 4: Social Awareness
Standard: Demonstrates awareness of other people’s emotions, perspectives, cultures, languages, histories, identities, and abilities
WA.SEL.6-8.4B
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 4: Social Awareness
Standard: Demonstrates an awareness and respect for similarities and differences among community, cultural and social groups.
WA.SEL.6-8.4C
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 4: Social Awareness
Standard: Demonstrates an understanding of the variation within and across cultures.
WA.SEL.6-8.5A
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 5: Social Management
Standard: Demonstrates a range of communication and social skills to interact effectively with others
WA.SEL.6-8.5C
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 5: Social Management
Standard: Demonstrates the ability to engage in respectful and healthy relationships with individuals of diverse perspectives, cultures, language, history, identity, and ability.
WA.SEL.6-8.6A
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 6: Social Engagement
Standard: Demonstrates a sense of school and community responsibility.
Learning Domain: Civics
Standard: Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and families
Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Create and use research questions to guide inquiry on an issue or event
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories]in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics”).
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories]in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics").
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories]in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics”).
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
Cluster: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
Cluster: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Cluster: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.