McDougall-Littell Course Overview Guide -GRADE 6 NSBSD
DRAFT
(Grade 6 – Template for Essential Course of Study – TE pages T14 and T15)
Unit
Theme
1-Rdg. Workshop/Plot, Conflict, and Setting
2-The School Play
3-Woodsong
1.
What’s
Happening
2
Person to
Person
The Big Idea
3.
Writer’s
Craft
4.
Inupiat Unit
5.
6
7.
8.
9.
Essential Core Lessons – 5 Weeks per each unit
4-Lob’s Girl
5-Writing Workshop
6-Assessment File Unit & Benchmark Tests Unit 1
7-Review/Practice Alaska SBA Assessments
1-Reading Workshop/Analyzing Character and
Point of View
2-Eleven
3-Ghost of the Lagoon
4-The Red Guards from Red Scarf Girl
5-Writing Workshop
6-Assessment File Unit & Benchmark Tests Unit 2
7-Review/Practice Alaska SBA Assessments
1-Reading Workshop/Understanding Theme
2-The Dog of Pompeii, 3-Ant & Grasshopper
4-The Richer, the Poorer, 5-Wtg.Workshop
6-Assessment Unit 3, 7-Rev/Prac. Alaska SBAs
1-Reader’s Workshop/Mood, Tone and Style
2-The All-American Slurp, 3- Jeremiah’s Song
4-The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,
5-Wtg. Workshop
6-Assessment Unit 4,
7-Rev/Practice Alaska SBA Assessments
1-Reader’s Workshop/Appreciating Poetry
2- Adventures in Trading 1/28-2/18/13
3- Adventures in Trading
4- Adventures in Trading
5-Writing Workshop 6-Assessment Unit 5
7-Rev/Prac Alaska SBA Assessments
Skip
Timeless
Tales
Life Stories
Know The
Facts
Invest/Res
Skip
Skip
1-Research Strategies Workshop
2- Wtg. Workshop: Research Report
Revised 7/27/13
2013-14
Intervention/
Assessment
See sample lesson
plan for more
examples and
suggestions for
differentiation
and intervention.
MAP
(NWEA)
Fall 3-12
Winter 3-12
Spring 3-8
Interventions:
- Bridges to Lit.
-CORE Teaching
Reading
Sourcebook
-Read Naturally
-REWARDS
-6 Min. Solution
-Achieve 3000
-Phonics for Rdg.
-Pearson Hi/Lo
Abridged Book
Classics (3rd-6th
grade reading
level)
-Lexia
www.TumbleB
ookCloud.com
username: ipa
look
password:
login
ILT to prep
students &
Teachers a week
to two weeks
before Inupiat
unit starts.
5 extra weeks to
be used for SBA
prep & testing
and research
paper
http://www.eed.st
ate.ak.us/tls/asses
sment/SBS_ItemSa
mplers.html
Assessment
Every 5 weeks - Unit
Assessment - McDougall
MAP
Benchmark
Dates
Complete by:
Begin 8/19/13
9/9-27/13
AIMSweb R-CBM Progress
Monitoring for students below
Lexile 1050, every two weeks
6-Trait Writing Assessment
Begin 9/30/13
10/21-11/1/13
MAP Benchmark
1/20-2/7/14
Begin 11/11/13
Begin 1/20/14
Unit 4 Test
AIMSweb
Progress
Monitoring
ACCESS ELL –
1/20/14
See Inupiat unit
Resume
2/24/14
End 3/21/14
Begin 1/27/14
End 2/14/14
6-Traits Writing
3/3-14/14
SBA (Gr. 3-10) 4/1-3/14
SBA Sci. Test (4th, 8th, &
10th) 4/8/124
SBA Make-ups 4/5 & 14/14
ACCESS ELL –
3/31/14
MAP Benchmark 4/14-
Begin 3/24/14
5/2/14
End 5/16/13