Timilty Readers’ and Writers’ Workshop 6th Grade Curriculum Map for 2004 – 2005

Submitted 9/17/04

2004-2005
School Year / BPS/Timilty
Curriculum / 6th Grade Reading
Activities / 6th Writing
Activities / 6th Grade
Assessments
Cycle One
(Sept. 9 Sept.30) / ·  Assessment:
·  SRI
·  MCAS Writing & Reading Prompts
·  BPE Formative Assessment / ·  Launch Reader’s Workshop
·  Building Reading Communities
·  Open Cycle / ·  Launch Writer’s Workshop
·  Building Writing
·  Communities Open Cycle / ·  Tests/Benchmarks/Writing
·  Prompts
·  Classwork /Notebook
Cycle Two
(Oct. 4 – Nov.30) / ·  End of Marking Term
·  Open House
·  Thanksgiving / ·  Making Meaning Unit 3
·  Analyzing Lit. (Elements of a short story) / ·  Elements of a short story
·  Leads / ·  Notebook/Classwork
·  Tests/Quizzes
·  Short story publication
Cycle Three
(Dec.1 – Jan.28) / ·  Science Fair research
·  Winter Vacation
·  SRI / ·  Making Meaning Unit 2
·  Expository Text
·  Text Structure
·  Questioning / ·  Elements of a Feature Article
·  Endings and angles / ·  Notebook/Classwork
·  Tests/Quizzes
·  Feature Article Publication
Cycle Four
(Jan. 31- Mar. 24) / ·  Assessments
·  End of Marking Term / ·  Making Meaning Unit 4
·  Inference in poetry
·  Visualizing & Inferencing / ·  Element of poetry
·  Tone
·  Mood / ·  Poetry publication
Cycle Five
(Mar. 28 – May 20) / ·  MCAS Assessments
·  Assessments (TBA) / ·  Test Strategies
·  Comprehensive Reading & Writing Assessments (MCAS) / ·  Identifying Main Idea, Cause & Affect and Generalizations / ·  Notebooks/Classwork
·  Tests/Quizzes
Cycle 6
(May 23 – June 20) / Open Cycle / Open Cycle / Open Cycle / Open Cycle

6th Grade ELA and Special Education teachers Henry-Williams, Marks, McMillan, Rotman