Core Curriculum Guide
Grade Level: 6th
Unit Title: Parts of the Short Story
Content Area: Reading/Language Arts
Month(s) August/September
Content Standards: 6.R.3.2 Students can describe literary elements to determine meaning in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Essential Question: What are the parts of the short story in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?
Resources: Literature Book Glencoe, storyline online, you tube, Discovery Ed, PowerPoint
Skills
Students will be able to….
……write down the plot, setting,
characters, conflict, theme, and
resolution on a variety of fiction
stories and/or novels read
Essential Vocabulary
Characters
Setting
Conflict
Resolution
Plot(rising action, falling action,
climax)
Theme
Point of view
Assessment(s)
Foldable-label the parts of a story from
storyline online
In groups—label the parts of children’s
stories
Priscilla and the Wimps—short story in
the Literature book.
Novels used throughout the year to
identify the parts of the story.
Quia test over story parts
Unit Title: Figurative Language
Month(s) October/November----all year
Content Standards: 6.R.3.3. Students can describe literary devices to determine meaning in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Essential Question: What are the literary devices used by the author in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?
Resources: PowerPoint, Figurative Language Puzzles, Quia, Figurative Language Booklet, you tube
Skills
Students will be able to….
Essential Vocabulary
Figurative language
Alliteration
..create a PowerPoint using examples of
Figurative Language from the same theme Onomatopoeia
Idiom
or topic
Imagery
..put together a puzzle to match the
Simile
definitions of different kinds of figurative
Metaphor
language
Personification
Foreshadowing
…cut and glue examples of figurative
Flashback
language to their correct definitions
Symbolism
…create a booklet using their own
examples of figurative language
….identify examples of figurative language
on Quia test
Assessment
Theme project PowerPoint
Booklet on Figurative Language
Examples
Puzzles to complete with
definitions
Cut and glue examples on
paper with correct label of
figurative language
Quia Test on figurative
language
Unit Title: Nonfiction Unit
Month(s) December/January
Content Standards: 6.R.5.2. Students can evaluate the credibility of informational texts.
6.R.3.1. Students can describe text structures to determine meaning in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
6.R.5.3. Students can utilize sources to locate information
Essential Questions: What kind of information text is used in the authors passage?
What are the organizational patterns in a text?
How are students able to utilize sources to locate information?
Resources: Dog Unit Booklet, Biographies, nonfiction books, AR(internet), Glencoe Literature book
Skills
Students will be able to……….
Essential Vocabulary
Evaluate
..read a biography and write a paper using Informational
main ideas and supporting details
Credibility
Distinguish
…read and comprehend informational
Fact
nonfiction books and pass an AR test over
Opinion
the book
Expository
….present orally their biography project to Persuasive
the class
Procedural Text
Assessment
AR Test over biography read
AR Tests over nonfiction books
Biography Project
Dog Unit booklet
Unit Title: Poems
Month: February
Content Standards: 6.R.3.1 Students can describe text structures to determine meaning in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
6.R.3.3. Students can describe literary devices to determine meaning in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Essential Questions: What are the organizational patterns in a text?
What types of literary devices are used in the text?
Resources: Poetry Booklet, Glencoe Literature Book(poems), PowerPoint, internet
Skills
Essential Vocabulary
Assessment
Students will be able to……..
..highlight the poem booklet to
identify types of figurative language
….highlight the basic concepts and
meaning related to two different
poems
…find and write examples of
figurative language found in poems
Compare
Contrast
Sequence
Description
Stanza
Verse
Figurative Language
PowerPoint Poem Questions over
printed poem
Poetry Booklet
List examples of figurative language
found in a variety of poems
Unit Title: Vocabulary/ Analogies
Month: March
Content Standards: 6.R.1.1. Students can expand word meanings using word categories and word parts.
6.R.1.2. Students can utilize context to comprehend words with multiple meaning.
Essential Questions: Which word categories and parts are found in the reading material?
What passages help you to comprehend words with multiple meanings?
Resources: Analogy booklet, Quia, internet
Skills
Essential Vocabulary
Assessment
Students will be able to………
Antonyms
Analogy Quia Test
….write to identify word meanings
using word categories and word
parts in analogies booklet
Synonyms
Homonyms
Acronyms
Abbreviations
Prefixes
Suffixes
Root words
Root Origins
Context
Analogy Booklet
Unit Title: Novels
Month(s) April and throughout the year
Content Standards: 6.R.2.1. Students can utilize direct and implied meaning to comprehend text.
6.R.2.2. Students can demonstrate the element of fluency to comprehend text.
6.R.4.1. Students can compare/contrast text from different time periods, cultures, and historical events.
Essential Questions: How can students get direct meaning from what they read to how they imply the text?
How will students fluently read a paragraph orally using rate, accuracy, expression and phrasing?
How will students be able to compare and contrast different cultures, time periods, and historical events?
Resources: Quia, Call it Courage, Sounder, A Long Way From Chicago, Summer of the Swans, Brian’s Hunt, Brian’s Winter, Al
Capone Does My Shirts, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler, Petey, Whipping Boy, Maniac Magee, The
Breadwinner
Skills
Essential Vocabulary
Denotation
Connotation
..write answers to a variety of essay Connect
Visualize
and literature circle questions
Infer
when reading different novels
Synthesize
Fiction
….write and create Venn Diagrams Nonfiction
Accuracy
comparing and contrasting a
Rate
variety of questions using novels
Expression
read
Cultures
Time Periods
Historical Events
Assessment
Students will be able to……
Literature Circle Questions after
reading novels
Essay Tests over Novels
Venn Diagrams comparing and
contrasting using novels
Unit Title: Writing/Speeches
Month: May
Content Standards
6.W.1.1. Students can compose narrative and descriptive text of three paragraphs. 6.W.1.2. Students can revise the organization
in narrative and descriptive writing.6.W.1.3. Students can identify purpose and audience in writing.6.W.1.4. Students can
summarize information from references to compose text. 6.R.5.1. Students can compare and contrast information on one topic
from multiple informational sources. 6.W.2.1. Students can edit text for subject-verb agreement. 6.W.2.2. Students can identify
and incorporate pronouns in the writing process. 6LVS.1.1. Students can interpret the purpose and content of the presentation by
observing the speaker’s verbal and nonverbal cues. 6LVS.1.2. Students can organize and present narrative and informative
presentations using main ideas and supporting details. 6LVS.1.3. Students can identify facts and opinions in auditory and visual
information.
Essential Question: How will students be able to present a variety of speeches and forms of writing?
Resources: Writing Handbook, Writer’s Craft Textbook, internet
Skills
Students will be able to……
.. write and expository paper and
present to the class as a
demonstration speech
…write a narrative story and
present to the class
Essential Vocabulary
Compare
Contrast
Expository
Persuasive
Procedural text
Informational Text
Nonfiction
Subject-verb agreement
Pronouns
Assessment
Write and present an
expository speech
Write a narrative story of three
or more paragraphs and
present to the class.