McDougall-Littell Course Overview Guide -GRADE 6 NSBSD
DRAFT
(Grade 6 – Template for Essential Course of Study – TE pages T14 and T15)
Unit
Theme
Essential Core Lessons – 5 Weeks per each unit
1-Rdg. Workshop/Plot, Conflict, and Setting
2-The School Play
3-Woodsong
1.
What’s
Happening
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
Person to
Person
The Big Idea
3.
Writer’s
Craft
4.
Inupiat Unit
5.
6
7.
8.
9.
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
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Timeless
Tales
Life Stories
Know The
Facts
Invest/Res
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1-Research Strategies Workshop
2014-15
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
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Assessment
Every 5 weeks - Unit
Assessment - McDougall
MAP
Benchmark
9/2-24/14
AIMSweb R-CBM Progress
Monitoring for students below
Lexile 1050, every two weeks
District Writing Assessment
Begin 9/29/13
Samples to CO by Nov
30
MAP Benchmark
1/12-2/2/15
Begin 11/10/14
Begin 1/20/14
Unit 4 Test
AIMSweb
Progress
Monitoring
ACCESS ELL –
1/19/15
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
Dates
Complete by:
Begin 8/18/14
See Inupiat unit
Resume
2/24/15
End 3/21/15
Begin 1/27/15
End 2/14/15
AMP 4/20-5/1/15
ACCESS ELL –
3/31/14
MAP Benchmark 4/27-
Begin 3/24/15
5/13/15
2- Wtg. Workshop: Research Report
Revised 11/5/14
End 5/16/15