6th grade MCSD ELA Map

August - September
Content Standard / Learning Targets / Assessments / Acceptable Resources
Reading for Literature / 2. 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 and judgments.
4. 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.
3. Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters responds or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Determine a theme
*Provide summary
*Determine meaning of words/ phrases
* Describe how plot affects character
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with literature / RL.2 Assessment – Study Island 2c,d
RL.3 Assessment – Study Island 2e
RI.2 Assessment – Study Island 3a
RL.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter
RI.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter / *Lit Units:
  1. Holes
  2. Hunger Games
  3. Freak the Mighty
  4. Number the Stars
  5. Out of the Dust Bowl
*Reader response logs
*Accelerated reader
*Success Maker
*StudyIsland
*Scott Forsman Reading Series stories (literature elements):
  1. Old Yeller
  2. Mother Fletcher
  3. View from Saturday
*Scott Forsman Reading Series stories (main idea/details)
1. Dinosaur ghosts
2. The universe
3. Gold
*Scott Forsman Leveled Readers that accompany the stories
*Poem of the Week
*Reader’s Theater
*Nonfiction reading practice (Evan-Moore)
*Scholastic Reading Materials
Reading for Informational Text / 2. 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 and judgments.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / * Determine a central idea
* Provide a summary
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with informational text
October
Content Standard / Learning Targets / Assessments / Acceptable Resources
Reading for Literature / 4. 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.
6. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Determine meaning of words/ phrases
*Determine author’s point of view and/or purpose
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with literature / RL.6 Assessment – Study Island 2k
RL.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter
RI.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter / *Lit Units:
1.Holes
2.Hunger Games
3.Freak the Mighty
  1. Number the Stars
  2. Out of the Dust Bowl
*Reader response logs
*Accelerated reader
*Success Maker
*StudyIsland
*Scott Forsman Reading Series stories ( Author’s Purpose)
1. Elizabeth Blackwell
2. Chimpanzee’s I love
*Scott Forsman Leveled Readers that accompany the stories
*Poem of the Week
Reader’s Theater
Reading for Informational Text / 6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / * Determine author’s point of view and/or purpose
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with informational text
November
Content Standard / Learning Targets / Assessments / Acceptable Resources
Reading for Literature / 4. 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.
5. Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Determine meaning of words/ phrases
*Analyze sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with literature / RI.5 Assessment – Study Island 3c
RL.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter
RI.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter / *Lit Units:
1.Holes
2.Hunger Games
3.Freak the Mighty
4.Number the Stars
5.Out of the Dust Bowl
*Reader response logs
*Accelerated reader
*Success Maker
*StudyIsland
*Scott Forsman Reading Series stories ( Author’s Purpose)
1. House of Wisdom
*Scott Forsman Leveled Readers that accompany the stories
*Poem of the Week
*Reader’s Theater
Reading for Informational Text / 5. Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / * Analyze sentence, paragraph, chapter or section
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with informational text
December
Content Standard / Learning Targets / Assessments / Acceptable Resources
Reading for Literature / 4. 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.
1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Determine meaning of words/ phrases
*Cite evidence
*Draw inferences
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with literature / RL.1 Assessment – Study Island 2a
RL.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter
RI.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter / *Lit Units:
1.Holes
2.Hunger Games
3.Freak the Mighty
4.Number the Stars
5.Out of the Dust Bowl
*Reader response logs
*Accelerated reader
*Success Maker
*StudyIsland
*Scott Forsman Reading Series stories
1. The Aztec News
2. Into the Ice
*Scott Forsman Leveled Readers that accompany the stories
*Poem of the Week
*Reader’s Theater
Reading for Informational Text / 1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Cite evidence
*Draw inferences
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with informational text
January - February
Content Standard / Learning Targets / Assessments / Acceptable Resources
Reading for Literature / 4. 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.
7. Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Determine meaning of words/ phrases
*Compare / Contrast the experience of reading a variety of genre.
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with literature / RL..7 Assessment – Study Island 2l
RL.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter
RI.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter / *Lit Units:
1.Holes
2.Hunger Games
3.Freak the Mighty
4.Number the Stars
5.Out of the Dust Bowl
*Reader response logs
*Accelerated reader
*Success Maker
*Study Island
*Scott Forsman Reading Series stories
1. Learning to Swim
2. Ancient Greece
3. Viva New Jersey
*Scott Forsman Leveled Readers that accompany the stories
*Poem of the Week
*Reader’s Theater
Reading for Informational Text / 3. Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
7. Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Analyze individual, event or idea within text
*Develop an understanding
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with informational text
March
Content Standard / Learning Targets / Assessments / Acceptable Resources
Reading for Literature / 4. 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.
9. 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.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Determine meaning of words/ phrases
*Compare and contrast texts in different forms/genres
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with literature / RL.9 Assessment – Study Island 2l
RI.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter
RI.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter / *Lit Units:
1.Holes
2.Hunger Games
3.Freak the Mighty
4.Number the Stars
5.Out of the Dust Bowl
*Reader response logs
*Accelerated reader
*Success Maker
*Study Island
*Scott Forsman Reading Series stories
1. Don Quixote/Fuedalism
2. All American Slurp/Evolution of eating utentils
*Scott Forsman Leveled Readers that accompany the stories
*Poem of the Week
*Reader’s Theater
Reading for Informational Text / 9. Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Compare and contrast author’s presentation.
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with informational text
April-May-June
Content Standard / Learning Targets / Assessments / Acceptable Resources
Reading for Literature / 4. 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.
7. Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
8. Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Determine meaning of words/ phrases
*Compare / Contrast the experience of reading a variety of genre.
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with literature / RL.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter
RI.10 Assessment – Star Reading Test Beginning of Each Quarter
RL.7 Assessment – Study Island 2l / *Lit Units:
1.Holes
2.Hunger Games
3.Freak the Mighty
4.Number the Stars
5.Out of the Dust Bowl
*Reader response logs
*Accelerated reader
*Success Maker
*Study Island
*Scott Forsman Reading Series Stories
1. Hatchet with video/movie
*Scott Forsman Leveled Readers that accompany the stories
*Poem of the Week
*Reader’s Theater
Reading for Informational Text / 3. Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
7. Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. / *Analyze individual, event or idea within text
*Develop an understanding
*Evaluate and trace arguments and claims
*Read and Comprehend within grade level complexity band with informational text