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The 6th
grade learner will:
- Read with developing fluency a wide variety of
texts, such as novels, short stories, textbooks, newspapers, and
magazines.
- Read informational text and write a summary
paragraph using highlighting and mapping.
- Use a variety of strategies to construct meaning
including use of context clues, word roots, prefixes, suffixes, and
syntax.
- Develop and expand vocabulary.
- Recognize and use writing techniques to convey ideas
such as simile, metaphor, foreshadowing, flashback, cliffhanger,
personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia, tone and mood.
- Analyze a main character by writing interview
questions and answers based on character traits.
- Read and analyze mythology, and then create a
mythological explanation of a common natural phenomenon.
- Recognize the author’s use of tone, mood, details,
strong verbs, descriptive language, multi-dimensional characters and
pacing to express ideas.
- Recognize organizational patterns in content reading
such as description, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, spatial and
chronological.
Language Arts
Curriculum (Writing)
The 6th grade learner will:
- Utilize all five types of writing across the
curriculum.
- Write poetry incorporating figurative language to
include simile, alliteration, and personification and compile a collection
including original and professional examples of identified figurative
language.
- Process write a story focusing on plot,
incorporating a beginning, dialog, vivid adjectives, and interjections.
- Process write a news story in the appropriate style.
- Process write an editorial containing compound
sentences, compound subjects and compound predicates.
- Correctly spell a selected list of high frequency
and frequently misspelled words appropriate to 6th grade.
Language Arts Curriculum (Speaking)
The sixth grade learner will:
- Prepare and deliver a presentation from a specific content area
employing selected elements of communication such as diction, voice
projection, posture, and eye contact.
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