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grade 6 reading
grade 6 reading
The sixth-grade units opens with Middle School Writing Series Unit 1, a deep study of character. Students proceed with enhancing their nonfiction reading skills in Unit 2, learning strategies to become powerful learners. This supports the transition to Unit 3 of navigating nonfiction. Students determine importance and synthesising informational texts. In the final unit, Unit 4, readers begin to read complex texts.
Unit 1
Unit 1
Building a Nonfiction Reading Life: Focusing on reading stamina, fluency, and engagement while reading.
This unit serves as a primer in what it means to participate in an intense reading workshop. It introduces students to different types of informational texts with curiosity and engagement - and with a focus on foundational skills. Readers will continue to read with a sense of connection and interest, as they identify the main/central ideas in a text and consider how the author developed those ideas. Finally, readers will explore narrative nonfiction texts, learning to apply their schema for reading fiction to informational texts.
Unit 2
Unit 2
Deep Study of Character: Consider the ways writers reveal complex character traits, investigate how setting can shape characters, and analyze how characters are vehicles for themes.
This unit serves as a primer in what it means to participate in an intense reading workshop. It introduces students to a variety of instructional methods and coaches both teachers and students in how to harness those methods to increase reading expertise and independence. An ideal unit for the beginning of the school year, this unit offers extra support for organizing a classroom library, matching readers to books, and organizing partnerships.
Unit 3
Unit 3
Tapping the Power of Nonfiction: Envisioning, predicting, and inferring; building theories and gathering evidence.
Nonfiction reading skills are essential to students’ achievement in virtually every academic discipline. To do science, students need to read science books and articles. To study history, they need to be skilled at reading all kinds of primary and secondary sources. When we help students become powerful readers of nonfiction, we help them become powerful learners.
Unit 4
Unit 4
Social Issues Book Clubs: Reading for empathy and advocacy.
The topic of social issues, the lens for reading in this unit, is a topic that matters greatly to the young human beings who enter our classrooms every day. In middle school, many kinds of issues start to weigh more heavily on students: relationships, school issues, and a growing awareness of larger societal pressures. A driving force in this unit is the power of reading to transform how we see others.
reading-skills-strategies.pdfReading Strategies
Reading Strategies
Apply these skills when reading to improve comprehension and enjoyment when reading. You will see significant improvements in all of your subjects when you engage with your texts.
literature-genres.pdfLiterature genres
Literature genres
Understand the differences between different genres. Explore various texts to learn more about the world and to also help to improve your own writing. Learn more about what you enjoy reading.
U.S. Common core
U.S. Common core
Grade 6 Reading Standards
Grade 6 Reading Standards
Reading Literature
Key Ideas and Details:
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Craft and Structure:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Reading Informational Texts
Key Ideas and Details:
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Craft and Structure:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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