Revised 06/15
6th Grade
Reading (Daily Five) Pacing Map
2015-2016
Week
Concept/Skill
Anchor Book
Formative
Word Work
Listen
Summative
KCAS
First Nine Weeks
1
Team Building
Activities
2
Characterization
3
Intro Genre/
Answer TextBased Questions
4
5
6
7
8
varies
Sloppy Joe Dave Keane (Trait)
‘Character Trait’ List
3 Elements of Characterization
Protagonist/Antagonist List
Definition Sheets/Posters
TpT
Character Quiz
Character Map
“Tommy” Wkst
RS pp. 13,26
Exit Slip
Canoe Days Gary Paulsen
Wolf’s Coming Joe Kulka
RS pp. 3, 7-8
Author’s Purpose
Entertain Late for School Steve Martin
Inform Mary Celeste Jane Yolen
Persuade I Wanna Iguana Karen Orloff
RS pp, 163, 167168
Author’s Purpose
Express Poetry
Teach Mr. Peabody’s Apples Madonna
Describe Twist It Up Jack Witherspoon
RS pp. 193, 197198
Halloween Jerry Seinfeld
Story Sequence Graphic p. 10
RS pp. 103, 107108, 128
The Eleventh Hour Graeme Gase
Plot Structure Graphic p. 13
RS pp. 203, 207208
Setting, Mood
Sequence
Plot
1
RS pp. 154-155
Spell pp. 105108
G/L p. 7-8 (10)
RS pp. 54-55
Spell pp. 21-24
G/L p. 11-12
(14-15)
RS pp. 234-235
Spell pp. 93-96
G/L p. 16-17
(19)
RS pp. 34-35
Spell pp. 13-16
G/L p. 20-21
(23-24)
RS pp. 164-165
Spell pp. 65-68
G/L p. 25-26
(28)
RS pp. 254-255
Spell pp. 101104
G/L p. 29-30
(32-33)
RS pp. 204-205
Spell pp. 81-84
G/L p. 34-35
(37)
Into The Ice
Disc 5 Track 2
Book pp. 412-425
The Universe
Disc 2 Track 2
Book pp. 150-161
RS pp. 17-18
Protagonist/
Antagonist
Teacher Made
Definition Test
Gold
Disc 8 Track 1
Book pp. 604-613
RS pp. 246
Saving The Rain
Forests
Disc 1 Track 4
Book pp. 92-105
The Chimpanzees I
Love
Disc 5 Track 3
Book pp. 434-447
Don Quixote
Disc 8 Track 3
Book pp. 656-667
RS pp. 46
The View From
Saturday
Disc 7 Track 1
Book pp. 540-557
RS pp. 106
RL.6.3
RL.6.9
RL.6.5
RL.6.6
RL.6.6
RS pp. 176, 286
RL.6.6
RS pp. 86, 146
186, 216
RL.6.3
RL.6.5
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9
Foreshadow/
Flashback/
Prediction
Heckedy Peg Audrey Wood
Jimmy’s Boa Ate The Wash Trinka Noble
Coyote Cry Byrd Baylor
Story Predictions Chart p. 7
Teacher Made
Formative Assess
RS pp. 104-105
Spell pp. 41-44
G/L p. 38-39
(41-42)
Hatchet
Disc 3 Track 3
Book pp. 278-291
1st Nine Weeks
Summative
Assessment
Second Nine Weeks
10
11
12
Theme
Point of View
Point of View
13
Inference
14
Intro Non-Fiction/
Refer to details
Inferencing
15
Text Features/
Main Idea
You Are Special Max Lucado
(GIVE BOOK TO EA. GROUP FOR GROUP
WORK AND DISCUSSION OF THEME)
Encounter Jane Yolen
A Bad Base of Stripes David Shannon
The Wump World Bill Peet
The Frog Prince, cont Jon Scieszka
Weslandia Paul Fleischman
1st True Story of 3 Little Pigs Jon Scieszka
3rd (omni) Grandad Bill’s Song Jane Yolen
POV Shift Gravediggers Chris Krovatin
**Begin Biography Scrapbook Project
Assign Due Date
2nd Little Mouse/Ripe Strawberry Audrey
Wood
3rd (lim) Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes
3rd (sub) Barefoot Pamela Edwards
Theme
Worksheet
Tic-Tac-Toe
RS pp. 194-195
Spell pp. 77-80
G/L p. 43-44
(46)
Inventing The
Future
Disc 6 Track 3
Book pp. 504-521
Theme Assessment
Exit Slip
RS pp. 124-125
Spell pp. 49-52
G/L p. 47-48
(50-51)
Learning To Swim
Disc 4 Track 2
Book pp. 326-339
Teacher Made
Assessment
POV Part One
When Marian Sang
Disc 4 Track 1
Book pp. 302-315
Teacher Made
Assessment
POV Part Two
The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg
Inference Cards
RS pp. 143, 147148
Harvesting Hope
Disc 7 Track 2
Book pp. 566-577
RS pp. 276
Outlaws Ann Weil
Lakota Indians Caryn Yacowitz
RS pp. 183, 187188
Non-Fiction
Writing Prompts
(TpT)
RS pp. 63, 67-68
RS pp. 114-115
Spell pp. 45-48
G/L p. 52-53
(55)
RS pp. 214-215
Spell pp. 85-88
G/L p. 56-57
(59-60)
RS pp. 64-65
Spell pp. 37-40
G/L p. 61-62
(64)
Dinosaur Ghosts
Disc 2 Track 3
Book pp. 172-187
RS pp. 266
RS pp. 284-285
Spell pp. 25-28
G/L p. 65-66
(68-69)
Aztec News
Disc 9 Track 2
Book pp. 728-743
RS pp. 96
The Great Kapok Tree Cherry
Main Idea Cards
Exit Slip
RL.6.2
RL.6.5
RI.6.2
15.5
T’giving
Week
Flashlight Read
Catch-Up Week
X
X
2
X
X
X
RL.6.6
RI.6.6
RL.6.6
RI.6.6
RL.6.1
RL.6.5
RI.6.1
RI.6.5
RI.6.3
RI.6.7
RI.6.8
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16
17
18
Xmas
Week
Graphic Source
Graphic Source
Text Structure
Compare/Contrast
Dialect
Magazine Periodical
Poster
Electronic Media
Following Directions
Advertisements
Schedule
Newsletter
Parts of a Book
Instructions Manual
That Book Woman Heather Henson
Hillbilly Night Before Xmas
Cajun Night Before Xmas
The Night Before Xmas Clement Moore
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No
Good, Very Bad Day (for Summative)
RS pp. 263, 267268
RS pp. 29-30
RS pp. 109-110
RS pp. 169-170
RS pp. 189-190
RS pp. 264-265
Spell pp. 61-64
G/L p. 70-71
(73)
Ancient Greece
Disc 8 Track 4
Book pp. 676-691
RS pp. 66, 39-40
RS pp. 93, 97-98
RS pp. 199-200
RS pp. 209-210
RS pp. 219-220
RS pp. 259-260
RS pp. 279-280
RS pp. 23,27-28
Grammar/Writing
pp. 236-237
RS pp. 94-95
Spell pp. 117120
G/L p. 74-75
(77-78)
Egypt
Disc 3 Track 2
Book pp. 248-261
RS pp. 36, 77
RS pp. 24-25
Spell pp. 9-12
G/L p. 79-80
(82)
Viva New Jersey
Disc 1 Track 3
Book pp. 70-83
RS pp. 76, 256, 296
A Week in the
1800’s
Disc 2 Track 4
Book pp. 198-214
The All-American
Slurp
Disc 9 Track 1
Book pp. 702-717
RS pp. 156
Goodbye to the
Moon
Disc 3 Track 1
Book pp. 224-237
Jumpstarters:
-Symbolism
L.6.4
L.6.4
2nd 9 Weeks
Summative
Assessment
RL.6.7
RI.6.9
Third Nine Weeks
19
20
RS pp. 53, 57-58
Just For You Mercer Meyer
Cause/Effect Graphic p. 20
RS pp. 153, 157158, 223, 227228
The Harmonica Tony Johnston
The Yellow Star Carmen Deedy
Jumpstarters
Lon Po Po Ed Young
Little Red Riding Hood
The Miracle Worker Wm Gibson
Use “In Order” outline for daily progress
The Miracle Worker DVD
Generalization Cards
Use The Miracle
Worker
Worksheets
Text Features/
Summarizing
Text Structure
Cause/Effect
21
Symbolism
22/23
Intro Traditional
Literature &
Compare 2 Texts
24
Summarizing TpT
Generalization
RS pp. 113, 117118, 133, 137138
3
RS pp. 74-75
Spell pp. 29-32
G/L p. 83-84
(86-87)
RS pp. 274-275
Spell pp. 109112
G/L p. 88-89
(91)
RS pp. 84-85
Spell pp. 33-36
G/L p. 92-93
(95-96)
X
RS pp. 14-15
Spell pp. 5-8
G/L p. 97-98
(100)
X
Mother Fletcher’s
Gift
Disc 1 Track 2
Book pp. 46-61
RI.6.3
RI.6.7
RI.6.8
RS pp. 6, 136, 196,
206, 236
The Miracle Worker
Summative Assess
RS pp. 56, 126
RL.6.9
Revised 06/15
Teachers Pay Teachers Curriculum
25
26/27
Fact/Opinion
Drama
Reader’s Theater scripts
(put into groups according to no. of cast
in scripts. At least 3-4 scripts/groups per
time period
RS pp. 33, 37-38
RS pp. 43
X
RS pp. 174-175
Spell pp. 69-72
G/L p. 105-107
(109)
X
Black Frontiers
Disc 6 Track 1
Book pp. 460-473
X
RS pp. 47
Performance for
other classes
Fourth Nine Weeks
28/29
Poetry
30/31
K-PREP
Review
32
Fable/
Personification
33
K-PREP
34
FairyTales/
Hyperbole
35
Myth/
Allusion
CLOSE Reading (TpT)
Poe Museum Educator Info Packet
Common Core Coach Book
Assessment Books
X
X
Units 1-4
Minus the writing
sections
Aesop’s Fables Aesop (Read To Self)
Favorite Fables Amanda Atha
Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare
**read as a group during regular class
time
American Tall Tales Mary Osborne
Jumpstarters
36
X
Jumpstarters
Robin Hood
Legend
G/L=Greek/Latin Roots
4
RS pp. 244-245
Spell pp. 97100
G/L p. 110-111
(113-114)
The House of
Wisdom
Disc 8 Track 2
Book pp. 624-637
RS pp. 134-135
Spell pp. 53-56
G/L p. 115-116
(118)
RS pp. 224-225
Spell pp. 89-92
G/L p. 119-120
(122-123)
RS pp. 44-45
Spell pp. 17-20
G/L p. 124-125
(127)
Juan Verdades
Disc 4 Track 3
Book pp. 350-363
River To The Sky
Disc 7 Track 3
Book pp. 586-595
When Crowbar
Came
Disc 2 Track 1
Book pp. 116-131
Literary Elements
Test
(Teacher Made)
CCC Book
Summative Assess
From Assessment
books
Jumpstarters
RL.6.1