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6th Grade Introduction

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Introduction to 6th Grade

 

In grade 6, students practice speaking and listening by sharing their ideas and findings in class discussions. During the revision stage of the writing process, students learn how to better organize their writing through logical order and transitions. Students proficiently read complex literary and informational texts while further developing the ability to cite textual evidence to support analyses, which now includes mood. In this grade, students shift from writing opinion essays to argumentative essays, using claims, organization, and evidence to strengthen their writing. Students’ vocabularies expand as they become more attuned to using context clues, knowledge of Latin roots, affixes, and stems to determine the meaning of complex words. They learn how to use commas and colons with increasing sophistication in their writing. They also take a critical stance toward sources and apply criteria for identifying relevant and reliable information. Students critique and create multimodal content and become increasingly independent readers and writers.

 

2021 Resources

Objective Analysis The 8 overarching standards are broken down into specific objectives. Each objective is analyzed with student actions, teacher actions, recommendations, and key terms and related objectives.
Literacy Progressions  See how 27 major literacy skills develop throughout the course of a student's academic career, PK-12.
Proficiency Levels  Student skill levels for each objective from the standards are shown at the developing, approaching, understanding, and extending stages. 
  UDL Lesson

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework for improving student learning experiences and outcomes through careful instructional planning focused on the varied needs of all students, including students with visible and non-visible disabilities, advanced and gifted learners, and English learners.

 

Some general ideas for implementing the UDL lens in an ELA lesson, PK-12, are provided in this chart.

Exemplar Lesson Plans

These exemplar lesson plans showcase best practices for English language arts. These lessons are aligned to the Oklahoma Academic Standards and bundle together multiple objectives to showcase the recursive nature of ELA. Each lesson plan includes helpful explanations about the instructional plan and steps. Teachers can review these sample lessons on their own, with a colleague, and/or with their professional learning community, to reflect on the highlighted ELA practices and how they mesh with their own current classroom practices.

 

Lesson plans are available for each grade featuring texts from the following genres: fiction, nonfiction, & poetry.

 

Moreover, an exemplar lesson plan sequence regarding Standard 6 research is available for each grade band.

  Writing Resources

This suite of writing resources includes:

  • student-friendly checklists for the narrative, informative, argumentative, and research modes
  • editing checklists for the beginning and middle of the school year
  • examples of teacher feedback on student writing
  • a peer feedback lesson plan with a slideshow and handout
Other Resources 

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