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Robotics Report: A Language Audit

Edit a school robotics news report, recognize departures from standard English, and practice strategies for checking writing and speech.

Grade 6ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.6.1.e

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 6
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students recognize departures from standard English in school reporting and prepared speech.
Students revise agreement, verb forms, comparisons, and negatives while preserving meaning.
Students choose and explain strategies for checking uncertain language.

How to use

Read the report and discuss the editor's checking strategy. Have students complete the editing tasks, then apply one strategy to their own writing.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.6.1.e

Notice where their own and others' writing and speaking stray from standard English, and use strategies to fix it.

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Robotics Report: A Language Audit

Notice departures from standard English and choose strategies to revise them.

Inside the Newsroom

Read the report. For this worksheet, use standard English for school news and prepared announcements. Informal speech can differ without making a speaker's ideas less valuable.

A Second Run, a Closer Look

1At Saturday's school robotics competition, teams programmed small machines to move foam blocks into marked spaces. Each team had a practice round before the scored runs began. Students crowded around the course, but the operators kept their eyes on the wheels and lifting arms. A slight turn could send a block outside its target.

2For Sahana and Dario, the first practice run ended with a block wedged beneath their machine. They carried the robot to a worktable and examined the lifting arm. Sahana adjusted its position while Dario checked the program. On the next run, the machine moved the block into place, although it stopped short of the final target.

3Student reporter Keziah recorded an interview beside the worktable. Dario described the repair in the relaxed language he used with friends. Keziah understood his explanation, but she wanted the written report to work for readers who had not watched the event. She asked him to explain what the lifting arm did before she described the adjustment.

4Back in the newsroom, Keziah and student editor Tomas reviewed her draft. Tomas covered the phrase between a subject and its verb to check whether the two agreed. He also circled a past-tense form that he wanted to verify in a dictionary. Keziah compared each revision with her notes to make sure the meaning had not changed. They kept direct quotations separate from sentences written in the reporter's voice.

5Their finished article described the team's repair without turning a practice success into a competition victory. Sahana and Dario did not earn the highest score, but their second run gave readers something specific to follow. Before submitting the report, Keziah read it aloud, pausing whenever a sentence sounded uncertain.

Which statement best describes how Tomas checks subject–verb agreement in paragraph 4?

A. He compares the reporter's account with interview notes.
B. He replaces technical terms with more familiar words.
C. He checks uncertain past-tense forms in a reference source.
D. He separates the core sentence parts from intervening words.

Underline the sentence from paragraph 4 that directly demonstrates Tomas's agreement-checking strategy.

Back in the newsroom, Keziah and student editor Tomas reviewed her draft.Tomas covered the phrase between a subject and its verb to check whether the two agreed.He also circled a past-tense form that he wanted to verify in a dictionary.Keziah compared each revision with her notes to make sure the meaning had not changed.They kept direct quotations separate from sentences written in the reporter's voice.

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