On-Level & Strategic Power Reading Curriculum/Schedule
2015-2016
Incorporate Literacy Stations Tuesday-Friday for 30 minutes. Students will rotate
through Word Work & Writing/Skills & Strategies/Independent Reading &
Teacher Conferencing. Students will visit one station per day with assignments due
each Monday. Mondays will be used to introduce skills/strategies/new vocabulary.
Writing will be integrated within this class period.
Tentative Schedule:
Block 1—Strategic 7:45-8:05: Writing Skills 8:05-8:25: Reading Skills/Vocab.
8:25-8:55: Literacy Stations
Block 2—On-Level 8:55-9:15: Writing Skills 9:15-9:35: Reading Skills/Vocab. 9:3510:05: Literacy Stations
Units/Weeks
Story/Skills Covered
Weeks 1-2
Baseline Assessments
Literary Elements/Figurative Language Unit
“Old Yeller”—Setting/Visualization—HF
“Mother Fletcher’s Gift”—
Characterization/Summarization—RF
“Viva New Jersey”—
Compare/Contrast/Summarization—RF
“Saving the Rain Forests”—
Fact/Opinion/Graphic Organizers
“When Crowbar Came”—
Fact/Opinion/Author’s Purpose—Narrative
NF
Non-Fiction/Informational Text—Citing
textual evidence.
Unit 1—Weeks 3-6“What draws us
to people and things around us and
makes us care?”
Week 7-8
Week 9 (Fall Break)
Unit 2—Weeks 10-16
Gary Paulsen Author Study:
“Hatchet”—RF & “Canyons”—F
Literary
Elements/Setting/Characterization/Author’s
Weeks 17-18
Weeks 19-20 (Christmas Break)
Unit 3—Week 21-24
Unit 4—Weeks 25-27 “Overcoming
Obstacles”
Unit 5—Weeks 28-32 “Explorers,
Pioneers, Discoverers”
Week 33 (Spring Break)
Week 34-End of School
Purpose &
Style/Annotation/Mood/Tone/Theme
Incorporating LTF Pre-AP Strategies
Non-Fiction/Informational Text—Citing
textual evidence.
“The Miracle Worker”—NF
Literary Elements/Setting/Elements of a
Drama/Characterization/Theme
Compare/Contrast Movie v. Written Drama
“When Marian Sang”—Biography—
Generalization
“Juan Verdades”—Folk Tale—Generalization
“Elizabeth Blackwell”—Biography/Drama—
Drawing Conclusions
“Into the Ice”—Narrative NF—Cause/Effect
“The Chimpanzees I Love”—Expository NF—
Author’s Purpose
“Black Frontiers” —Expository NF—Author’s
Purpose
“Inventing the Future”—Biography—
Cause/Effect
(Research Project on Inventors—Students
will present speech.
MAP/KPREP Testing
“Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry”
Elements/Setting/Characterization/Author’s
Purpose &
Style/Annotation/Mood/Tone/Theme
Incorporating LTF Pre-AP Strategies
Writing Curriculum 2015-2016
First 9 Weeks
Content/Writing Piece
Assess students’ writing using
“Letter to Future Self” & OnDemand Writing
Paragraph Form: topic
sentence/supporting
details/conclusions
6 Traits of Writing:
Idea/organization/voice/
Word choice/sentence/
Conventions
ODW Practice
Resource
Common Core
Standards
W 6.6Technology
SPAT/SF Writing
W 6.9
SF Writing/6 Traits Website/
Writingfix.org
W 6.10
Daily Writing: Across content areas through journals/note-taking/extended
responses/exit slips
Second 9
Weeks
Content/Writing Piece
Resource
Common Core
Standards
*Informative Piece: Conservation
Editorial
SPAT
W 6.2 a-f
W 6.5 Writ. Process
W 6.6 Tech.
W 6.7 Research
Daily Writing: Across content areas through journals/notetaking/extended responses/exit slips
W 6.6W 6.9
W 6.10
Third 9 Weeks
Content/Writing Piece
Resource
*Science Fair Abstract
*Argument: arguments/claims
Utilize LTF Pre-AP Argument
lessons
Common Core
Standards
W 6.7
W 6.8
W 6.1 a-e
W 6.4
W 6.5
W 6.6
W 6.8
ODW: argument
*College Letter-Authentic Writing
W 6.6-
Daily Writing: Across content areas through journals/notetaking/extended responses/exit slips
W 6.9
W 6.10
Fourth 9
Weeks
Content/Writing Piece
Resource
Common Core
Standards
*Narrative Piece-Digital
Storytelling
Glogster/Writingfix.org
W 6.4 a-e
W 6.5
W 6.6
*Speech: research famous
European in SS/create ppt/Prezi to
incorporate digitally
Scholastic online
W 6.2 a-f
W 6.4
W 6.5 Writ. Process
W 6.6 Tech.
W 6.7 Research
Daily Writing: Across content areas through journals/notetaking/extended responses/exit slips
W 6.6W 6.9
W 6.10
Dear Parents & Guardians,
I am so excited that your child will be in my reading class this
school year! Together, we will work hard and have great adventures
through reading!
As a sixth grade student, there are great expectations. As we
prepare to enter middle school, I will ask the students to act
responsibly when it comes to their class work and behavior. They will
become “Active Readers!” We will be integrating the Pearson Reading
Street Curriculum and independent pieces of literature. Students will
learn strategies to enable them to become an even better reader. PreAP and close reading strategies will be incorporated in our curriculum.
During the literacy block, we will also be integrating our writing.
Reading and writing go hand-in-hand! Your child will work on various
writing pieces that will be sent to middle school in the spring. Students
will also be keeping a free-write journal! You will be asked periodically
to write in these journals as well.
Please take a moment to read over our plan for this year. Do not
hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!
Thank you,
Mrs. Sharp