6th grade ELA



6thgrade ELAClass Structure: 90 minute blockWarm Up: Daily Academic Vocab Mini LessonPractice: work with individual studentsMini LessonPractice: work with individual studentsApply (project)Closure and clean up: who’s where in tasks and what’s due or exit tickets* Writing is incorporated in tasks or projects that apply reading skills and comprehension.1stquarterOut of the Dust: whole class novel to model guided reading & class structureFocus: Reading skills- setting, characters, figurative language (similes and metaphors)Focus: Grammar- nouns, verbs, and adjectivesBiographies: students read about people whom they are interested in.Focus in Reading: nonfiction and point of viewFocus in Writing: Autobiographies (paragraph writing)Author Study: Haddix Novels 2ndQuarterRealistic Fiction: Teach reading skills with mini-lessons and then students complete handouts and task, but with different novels based on guided reading levels.Possible novels: Hatchet-R, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- VWriting: Adventure narrativesNovel in Verse:Possible novels Crash, Boom, Love, Locomotion-V, Hidden, Love that Dog- T, Hidden-Grade 63rdQuarterHistorical Fiction: Teach reading skills with mini-lessons and then students complete handouts and task, but with different novels based on guided reading levels.Writing: creating a newspaper with multiple articles4thQuarterMystery: Teach research skills with mini-lessons and then students complete a research paper and then read fictional mysteries and create their own fictional mystery based on Harris Burdick pictures. ................
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