Grade 6
READING WORKSHOP Launching the Workshop Goals: Establish Routines, reading culture, stamina, Strategy: Connections, Visualization, and Fix‐Up strategies Lessons to teach: • First 20 Days of Reading Workshop • Establish routines, procedures • Set‐Up Reading Journals COMPREHENSION • Making Connections • Visualization • Fix‐Up Strategies LITERARY ELEMENTS • Overview of all elements • Genre Overview • Introduce Non‐Fiction Text Structures FLUENCY • Overview of pacing, expression, and phrasing Assessments • MAP (Screener) • 3 Minute Assessment (progress monitor) • QRI (as needed) Year‐Long Teaching Goals Reading and Writing Workshop 1st Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP Goals: 6‐Traits: Genre: Lessons to teach: Assessments Charleston Community School District No.1
WORD STUDY Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study/Phonics Skills & Strategies: • Unaccented syllables (‐le, ‐el, ‐il,‐al) • Unaccented syllables (‐er,‐ar,‐or) • Final R Spellings (‐cher, ‐ture, ‐sure) • Comparatives (‐er,‐or, ‐ar) • Initial syllables (a‐,de‐,be‐) (Sorts 31 – 37) Other Word Study Strategies/Skills: • Review synonyms, antonyms, homonyms • Multiple Meaning words • Context Clues Assessments: •
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DSA (Screener or Diagnostic) Unit 5 Spell Check Assessment (progress monitor) Revised 03/09
Grade 6
READING WORKSHOP Goals: Stamina, Independence, comprehension Strategy: Questioning, Inferring, and Determining Importance Lessons to teach: COMPREHENSION • Questioning • Inferring • Determining Importance (summarizing) LITERARY ELEMENTS • Character Traits & Analysis • Theme • Authors Purpose FLUENCY • Review and practice rate and expression Assessments • 3 Minute Assessment (progress monitoring) 2nd Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP Goals: 6‐Traits: Genre: Lessons to teach: Assessments: Charleston Community School District No.1
WORD STUDY Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study/Phonics Skills & Strategies: • Initial and Final hard and soft g and c • More “g” words (gu‐,‐gue, ‐g) • K words (‐ck,‐ic,x) • QU words (1st ,2nd, final syllable) • Silent Consonants (t,g,w,k,h,gh) • “gh” and “ph” words (Sorts 38 – 44) Other Word Study Strategies/Skills • Prefix, suffix, and roots • Context Clues continues • Multiple meaning words Assessments: • Unit 6 Spell Check Assessment (Progress monitor) Revised 03/09
Grade 6
READING WORKSHOP Goals: Continue to develop independence and deeper comprehension Strategy: Determining Importance, Synthesis Lessons to teach: COMPREHENSION • Determining Importance (main idea, cause/effect) • Synthesis LITERARY ELEMENTS • Figurative Language • Mood/Tone • Point of View FLUENCY • Review and practice rate and expression Assessments: • MAP (screener) • 3 Minute Assessment (progress monitoring) 3RD Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP Goals: 6‐Traits: Lessons to teach Charleston Community School District No.1
WORD STUDY Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study/Phonics Skills & Strategies: • Prefixes • Re‐, un‐, dis‐, mis‐, pre‐ • Ex‐,non‐, in‐, fore‐ • Uni‐, bi‐, tri‐, numbers • Suffixes ( • ‐y, ly, ily • ‐er, ‐est • ‐ness, ‐ful, ‐less (Sorts 45 – 51) Other Word Study Strategies/Skills • Prefix, suffix, and roots • Context Clues continues • Multiple meaning words Assessments: •
MAP (vocabulary) •
Unit 7 Spell Check Assessment (progress monitor) Revised 03/09
Grade 6
READING WORKSHOP Goals: Continue to develop independence and deeper comprehension Strategy: Continue work with all strategies Lessons to teach: COMPREHENSION • Review of all reading strategies • Deeper meaning LITERARY ELEMENTS • Review of all elements within each genre FLUENCY • Review and practice rate and expression Assessments: • MAP 4th Quarter WRITING WORKSHOP Goals: 6‐Traits: Genre: Lessons to teach: Assessments: Charleston Community School District No.1
WORD STUDY Goals: Continue to develop phonics skills and embed into daily writing strategies Word Study/Phonics Skills & Strategies: • Homophones • Homographs • I before E except after c (Sorts 52 – 55) Other Word Study Strategies/Skills • Prefix, suffix, and roots • Context Clues continues • Multiple meaning words Assessments: • DSA (post assessment) Revised 03/09
Grade 6
Charleston Community School District No.1
Revised 03/09