Welcome to 6th Grade

English Language Arts

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Common CoreCommon Core Based Instruction

Common Core State Standards/ ELAClear and consistent standards for teachers, students and parentsRelevant, real world skills to prepare for college and careersBe prepared to compete in the global economy“I Can” statements, learning goals, check understanding PARCC in 2015http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=5s0rRk9sER0

Quick OverviewChanging Common Core Standards into I

Can StatementsReadingWritingGrammarVocabularyConventionsTechnologyPresentation

Reading

A mix of informational and fictional texts of different genres.

Text Based Questions will be used often to access student understanding where students will prove their answers from evidence in the text. To do this students will practice Close Reading.

Close Reading Strategies: a careful and purposeful re-reading of the text to search for purpose, structure, words, ideas, and flow of the text.

VocabularyVocabulary will come from all subject areas.In ELA vocabulary words may be somewhat

individualized as students will be annotating what they read and searching for new vocabulary.

Tier 2 words will be studied: Words that appear with high frequency, across a variety of domains, and are crucial when using mature, academic language (coincidence, reluctant, analysis). http://www.edutopia.org/blog/vocabulary-instruction-teaching-tips-rebecca-alber

Prefixes, root words, suffixes, analogies, and words in context will be studied.

6 + 1 Traits of Writing will be used along with scales and rubrics to teach, peer edit, self edit, and score writing.

Types of writing:Literary ResponsesArgumentative/OpinionNarrativeExpository/Informational

Writing

Other Information: We are the Bahama Llamas! Use team and Mrs. Hanna’s assignments on

websiteView parent portal for gradesEmail with questions! Edmodo and Turnitin.com Grading: 20 percent class work and

homework and 80% quizzes, projects, assessments

Homework: Weekly: reading minutes and book log Nightly: grammar practiceAs needed: finish class work, pre-read and

annotate, projects.

STEMScience, Technology, Engineering and MathSchool wide we each team is participating in

a cross curricular STEM unit.Our team has decided that we will begin our

STEM unit called, “Chef”, in the 2nd quarter and we will each be teaching this on Wednesdays.

Students will rotate to each core subject where we will be teaching a portion of our STEM unit.