ELA Curriculum At-A-Glance
1st Nine Weeks
Pre-AP SIXTH-GRADE
Learning Outcomes: Emphasize the idea of change as the conceptual focus for the year by reading, exploring, analyzing and interpreting texts you will examine the changes that
often happen at this time in your life. Through your response to text and by creating and presenting narrative and expository text focusing on change you will be understand that
change is a normal, predictable aspect of life.
Reading
Writing
Oral/Written
Research
Listening & Speaking
Assessments
Conventions
Composition
WRITING:
Procedures/Strategies:
Writer/Reader
Notebook
 Create Reader’s Response Log
Writing (Revision)
(Fletcher model)
Introduce process of
N/A this grading
Read alouds
System (6.17)
WRN: Set up a writer’s notebook
revision. Apply
period
Writing:
 Teacher Read-Aloud for Modeling
that will be used for reflection
revision
to
personal
Partner
Reading
Personal Narrative
(Limit 10 minutes)
and response throughout the
narrative written and
Poetry
 Word Wall/Vocab. Development
year.
expository essay
Presentations based
Expository Essay

Read grade-level text with fluency
and comprehension (6.1)
RC1
Knowsys SAT Vocabulary Units 1-5 (One
lesson per week period will be completed
during the first grading period. No
vocabulary the first week of school)
Writing Process(6.14A-E)

Develop Drafts

Organization

Revise drafts to clarify meaning

Edit drafts for grammar,
mechanics, and spelling
Writing (Editing)
Revise for complete
sentences and
sentence variety.
Revise for consistent
verb tense.
Refer to Springboard
Unit 1
Set up a readers notebook that will be
used for reflection and response
through the year
Develop vocabulary through
understanding of context and using
dictionary. Vocabulary Workshop –
Glencoe Literature (Knowsys and
Springboard vocabulary)
*Latin/Greek Roots
Introduce unit concept- Changes in me:
Students will activate prior knowledge
about ‘changes in their life’ by
completing activities. Springboard
Teacher Resources
Literature that illustrates selfawareness:
Writing
WRN: Set up a writer’s notebook
that will be used for reflection and
response throughout the year.
Example – two-column note-taking,
poetry analyzing, read and respond,
sentence modeling, etc
Personal Narrative – complete
writing process applied, add details
and transitions
Spelling-academic vocabulary
Narrative Reflections
Frame Poem-about change and to
develop balance sentence, focus on
semicolons
on Literature
Circles/Book Clubs
Poem Presentation
Expository Activities
Reading:
*Teacher-Created
tests on
literature read
*District Common
Assessment
*Springboard
Activities
Spelling/Vocabulary
Tests ( 1 per week =
1 major grade)
Literature Circle/Book
Club
Preparation and
Discussion (see
Springboard plan)
Gates-McGinitie
Universal Screener
Assessment
Mentor Text (Springboard):
Narrative“Kira-Kira” (novel excerpt)
“My super-powers” (short story)
Expository“The Oldest Living Atlanta Gorilla Tells
All” (article)
“How Fire came to the Six Nations”
(Folktale)
“The Jacket” (novel excerpt)
“He might have liked me better…”
(expository essay)
Poetry
Narrative“Who’s Who”
Expository“…Little Mermaid”
Suggested Novels:
Pre-AP
- Nothing but the Truth by Avi
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- Tangerine by Edward Bloor
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Skills Focus – P.O.V., cause/effect,
application of story elements,
author’s purpose, infer, make
connections, text evidence,
summarize/paraphrase/synthesize
Independent Reading:
Reading a wide variety of text
suggestions-stories, poems, myths,
and informational text. This will help
develop more fluent reading skills
and vocabulary knowledge.
***Suggestions for independent
reading-autobiographical writing,
including personal narratives,
memoirs, or stories about true
happenings. Fiction and non-fiction
narrative
Expository Essay-explanation of a
certain time when change
happened in their life
Comparison of text
ELPS/CCRS
ELPS: 4K
CCRS: IID1
ELPS: 5G
CCRS: IA3
ELPS: 5D
CCRS: IA4
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
Springboard Vocabulary:
Fluency
Characterization
Narrative
Point of view
Expository writing
Cause/effect
comparison
ELA reading and writing connection:
Turning point
Climax
Falling action
Rising action
Denouement
Diction
Man vs. man; self; nature
ELPS: 3E
CCRS: IIIB2