6th Grade Reading

 

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Poetry

 

Poetry Powerpoint

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Read Alouds / Book Studies

 

__On My Honor__ by Marion Dane Bauer

__My Side of the Mountain__ by Jean Craighead George

__Number the Stars__ by Lois Lowery

__The Cay__ by Theodore Taylor

__Devil's Arithmetic__ by Jane Yolen

__Crazy Lady__ by Jane Leslie Conly

__Tuck Everlasting__ by Natalie Babbit

__Running Out of Time__ by Margaret Peterson Haddix

__Where the Red Fern Grows__ by Wilson Rawls

__Roll of Thurnder, Hear My Cry__ by Mildred D. Taylor

__Holes__ by Louis Sachar

 

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Students will:

 

1. Apply strategies, including making complex predictions, interpreting characters' behaviors, and comparing and contrasting, to comprehend sixth-grade literary/recreational materials.

 

examples: complex predictions-order of events, potential conflicts

 

*Identifying supporting details

*Using context clues

*Identifyting sequence of events

*Making generalizations

 

2. Interpret literary elements and devices, including implied main idea, conflict, and personification.

 

*Identifying the climax

 

3. Apply strategies that include making complex predictions, identifying the likely source of a text, and comparing and contrasting to comprehend sixth-grade textual/informational and functional materials.

 

examples: complex predictions-results of actions, expected learning from a chapter or unit

 

4. Recognize the use of text elements, including implied main idea, explicit cause-effect relationships, and persuasive techniques, in a sixth-grade textual/informational or functional materials.

 

*Details related to main idea