ELA Curriculum At-A-Glance
1st Nine Weeks
Pre-AP SIXTH-GRADE
Learning Outcomes: Emphasize the idea of change as the conceptual focus for the year by reading, exploring, analyzing and interpreting texts you will examine the changes that often happen at this time in your life. Through your response to text and by creating and presenting narrative and expository text focusing on change you will be understand that change is a normal, predictable aspect of life.Reading / Writing / Oral/Written Conventions / Research / Listening & Speaking / Assessments
Procedures/Strategies:
· Create Reader’s Response Log System (6.17)
· Teacher Read-Aloud for Modeling (Limit 10 minutes)
· Word Wall/Vocab. Development
· Read grade-level text with fluency and comprehension (6.1)
RC1
Knowsys SAT Vocabulary Units 1-5 (One lesson per week period will be completed during the first grading period. No vocabulary the first week of school)
Set up a readers notebook that will be used for reflection and response through the year
Develop vocabulary through understanding of context and using dictionary. Vocabulary Workshop – Glencoe Literature (Knowsys and Springboard vocabulary)
*Latin/Greek Roots
Introduce unit concept- Changes in me: Students will activate prior knowledge about ‘changes in their life’ by completing activities. Springboard Teacher Resources
Literature that illustrates self-awareness:
Mentor Text (Springboard):
Narrative-
“Kira-Kira” (novel excerpt)
“My super-powers” (short story)
Expository-
“The Oldest Living Atlanta Gorilla Tells All” (article)
“How Fire came to the Six Nations” (Folktale)
“The Jacket” (novel excerpt)
“He might have liked me better…” (expository essay)
Poetry
Narrative-
“Who’s Who”
Expository-
“…Little Mermaid”
Suggested Novels:
Pre-AP
- Nothing but the Truth by Avi
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- Tangerine by Edward Bloor
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Skills Focus – P.O.V., cause/effect, application of story elements, author’s purpose, infer, make connections, text evidence, summarize/paraphrase/synthesize
Independent Reading:
Reading a wide variety of text suggestions-stories, poems, myths, and informational text. This will help develop more fluent reading skills and vocabulary knowledge.
***Suggestions for independent reading-autobiographical writing, including personal narratives, memoirs, or stories about true happenings. Fiction and non-fiction narrative
/ Composition
Writer/Reader Notebook (Fletcher model)
WRN: Set up a writer’s notebook that will be used for reflection and response throughout the year.
Writing Process(6.14A-E)
· Develop Drafts
· Organization
· Revise drafts to clarify meaning
· Edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling
Writing
WRN: Set up a writer’s notebook that will be used for reflection and response throughout the year.
Example – two-column note-taking, poetry analyzing, read and respond, sentence modeling, etc
Personal Narrative – complete writing process applied, add details and transitions
Spelling-academic vocabulary
Narrative Reflections
Frame Poem-about change and to develop balance sentence, focus on semicolons
Expository Essay-explanation of a certain time when change happened in their life
Comparison of text
/ Writing (Revision)
Introduce process of revision. Apply revision to personal narrative written and expository essay
Writing (Editing)
Revise for complete sentences and sentence variety.
Revise for consistent verb tense.
Refer to Springboard Unit 1
/ N/A this grading period
/ Read alouds
Partner Reading
Presentations based on Literature Circles/Book Clubs
Poem Presentation
/ WRITING:
Writing:
Personal Narrative
Poetry
Expository Essay
Expository Activities
Reading:
*Teacher-Created
tests on
literature read
*District Common
Assessment
*Springboard Activities
Spelling/Vocabulary
Tests ( 1 per week =
1 major grade)
Literature Circle/Book Club
Preparation and
Discussion (see
Springboard plan)
Gates-McGinitie
Universal Screener
Assessment
ELPS/CCRS
ELPS: 4K
CCRS: IID1 / ELPS: 5G
CCRS: IA3 / ELPS: 5D
CCRS: IA4 / ELPS: 3E
CCRS: IIIB2
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
Springboard Vocabulary:
Fluency
Characterization
Narrative
Point of view
Expository writing
Cause/effect
comparison / ELA reading and writing connection:
Turning point
Climax
Falling action
Rising action
Denouement
Diction
Man vs. man; self; nature