Curriculum Map for sixth grade/English
Teacher: Jeanette Earley
School: Girard Middle School
Month
August
Content
Skills
Sentence classification and Kinds of sentences; Subject
& Predicate
jingles
Study skill lessons
Study skills
Common & Proper Nouns;
Paragraph writing
Singular & Plural Nouns
vocabulary
Assessment
pretest
Essential Questions
Standards
1.A2.a
3.A.2
Weekly tests on sent.
Unit 1 10A&B tests
1A2b
3.A.2
Sentence corrections
3.A.2
Complex Sentences;
Correcting Fragments &
Run-on Sentences
Weekly tests on sent.
Unit 2 10A&B tests
Editing test for expository
essay
Expository essay
Action Verbs & Direct
Objects;
Main Verbs & Auxiliary
Verbs
1.A.2b
3.A.2
3.A.3
3.C.3.a
3B.3a,3.B.3b
3.A.2
Sentence corrections
3 point paragraph structure
September Sentence classification and Singular & Plural Possessive
Nouns;
jingles
More Possessive Nouns
Expository writing
vocabulary
October
Sentence classification and
jingles
Persuasive writing
vocabulary
Transitive & Intransitive
Verbs;
Being Verbs & Linking Verbs
November Sentence classification and
jingles
Descriptive writing
poetry
vocabulary
Verb Tenses; More About
Verb Tenses
Principal Parts of Regular &
Irregular Verbs;
Perfect Tenses
Weekly tests on sent.
Unit 3 10A&B tests
Editing test persuasive
Persuasive essay
Sentence corrections
Weekly tests on sent.
Unit 4 10A,B,C tests
Descriptive essay
1.A.2b
3.A.2
3.A.3
3B.3a,3.B.3b
3.C.3a
3.A.2
1.A.2b
3.A.2
3.A.3
3B.3a,3.B.3b
3.C.3a
December
Sentence classification and
jingles
Narrative writing
vocabulary
January
Sentence classification and
jingles
More Irregular Verbs;
Subject-Verb Agreement
Sit, set; lie, lay; rise, raise;
lend,
borrow; let, leave; teach,
learn
Adjectives; Proper
Adjectives
vocabulary
Adverbs; Comparing with
Adverbs
Friendly and business letters
February Sentence classification and
Comparing with Adjectives;
jingles
Comparing with good & bad
March
Vocabulary
Parts of a book
Subject & Object Pronouns;
Pronouns in Compound
Dictionary skills
Subjects & Objects
Library skills
reports
Sentence classification and
Possessive & Indefinite
Pronouns;
jingles
Using Who, Whom, Whose
April
May
Sentence classification and
jingles
Sentence classification and
jingles
Creative writing
Avoiding Double Negatives;
Contractions
Prepositions & Prepositional
Phrases;
Prepositional Phrases as
Adjectives & Adverbs
Interjections; Abbreviations
3.A.2
Sentence corrections
Weekly tests on sent.
Unit 5 10A&B tests
Post test
Narrative essay
1.A.2b
3.A.2
3.C.3a
3B.3a,3.B.3b
3.A.2
Sentence corrections
Weekly tests on sent.
3.A.2
Writing different types of letters
3.A.2
3.A.2
Weekly tests on sent.
Weekly tests on sentences
Written report
3.A.2
5.C.3a
Sentence corrections
3.A.2
3.A.2
Sentence corrections
Group tests
Commas in a Series; More
Uses for Commas
Sentence corrections
Punctuating Dialogue;
Capitalization in Titles
Creative writing essay
3.A.2
3.A.2
3.A.3