Grade 6 - Alberta Language - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 6 Alberta Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Writing Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Types of text forms – when to use each one (narratives, letters/emails, persuasive, comic strips, reports, etc.)
• Experiment – writing with planning time versus writing without planning time (no brainstorming)
• Activity – voice in song lyrics
• Varying sentence lengths
• Word choice – choosing appropriate words for our audience
• Analyzing word choices by professional authors
• Personal voice in writing
• Fluent writing – using punctuation, transition words, and logical sequencing of ideas
• How to write a perfect paragraph – topic sentence (hook), body (supporting details), conclusion
• Formal versus informal letter writing – voice in our writing
• Purpose and audience in letter writing – effect on our voice
• Narrative writing – beginning, middle, end
• Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
• Writing using figurative language – similes, metaphors, analogies
• Using quotations in our narratives – dialogue
• Adding quotations to pre-made stories
• Activity – Story Swap Revision Party
• Understanding persuasive writing
• Activity – Being Persuasive: Debate
• Understanding bias in persuasive writing
• Assignment – advertising a new invention
• Confirmation bias in persuasive writing
• Expository text forms – reports, lists, problem/solution report, compare/contrast essay, cause and effect essay
• Writing a How-To-Guide
• Writing a report – Canada’s Trading Partners and All About Elephants
• Research process – questioning, gathering, organizing, and recording
• How to research effectively – trustworthy sources, using keywords
• Ethical research – citing sources, fair representation of information, and asking permission
• Activity – Online Treasure Hunt
• Writing a problem/solution report
• Determining solutions to problems
• Types of poems – Haiku, Limerick, Rhyming Poems, Acrostic Poems
• Assignment – writing a poetry children’s book
• Activity – rhyme time analysis
• Cursive writing – Limerick
• Comic strips – onomatopoeia and illustrating graphic texts
• Assignment - creating an online comic strip
• Genres in different text forms – adventure, humour and other genres in graphic text
• Biographies – cross curricular connections: Ben Franklin and Nikola Tesla (electricity), Sally Ride (space)
• How to cite where we find research – bibliography
• Activity – Partner Biography/Bibliography Assignment
• Answer pages for all activities

Reading Comprehension Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is reading comprehension?
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, making global and local inferences, visualizing
• Cultural text forms – creation stories and songs
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, bias
• Implicit and explicit perspectives in letter writing
• Voice in writing – use of cohesive ties and different sentence structures
• Activity - determining the voice used in popular songs
• Narratives – use of literary devices: hyperbole, idiom, alliteration, metaphor
• Comedy story, tragedy story, and historical fiction story
• Character analysis – protagonist, antagonist and stock characters
• Perspective in narratives – first-person, second-person, and third-person and advantages/disadvantages of each
• Narratives – sequencing multiple plots in a story and explaining cause and effect
• Indigenous Storywork – 7 Principles: respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, synergy
• Indigenous storytelling – histories, creation stories, culture, and relationships
• Cross-curricular connections – text forms related to themes in science and social studies (electricity, USMCA)
• Persuasive writing – using critical thinking skills to determine bias
• Perspectives in writing – how our perspectives change/evolve (passage of time, new information, experience, etc.)
• Finding implicit and explicit evidence in persuasive texts
• Text features in reports – headings, subheadings, pull-down menus, hyperlinks, captions, tables, graphs, etc.
• Reports on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• Activity – Determining the quality of information when researching online
• Research – Confirm the accuracy of information presented in a report
• Land Literacy Report: Inuit inuksuit, Métis lobsticks, Coastal First Nations totem poles
• Use of graphs, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Literary devices used in poetry – idioms and hyperbole
• Ballad – Land Literacy Ballad (use of stanzas)
• Assignment – dissecting poems written by Indigenous authors
• Understanding haiku, limericks, acrostic poems, cinquain poems, and rhyming poems
• Bias in book reviews
• Activity: detecting bias in online reviews
• Reading different styles (voices) in book reviews
• Text features in comics, infographics, memes, and maps
• Text features in biographies – using a glossary and a preface to understand a biography
• Chris Hadfield, Elijah Harper, and David Suzuki biographies with prefaces and glossaries
• Answer pages for all activities

Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Suffixes: -en, -ize, -ing, -ly, -able, -less, -ment, -ful, -ness, -tion, -ous, -y, -ize, -ship and many more
• Prefixes: pro-, com-, con-, en-, oc-, re-, dis-, pre-, ex-, in-, non-, sub-, inter-, anti-, mis-, super-, and many more
• Complete sentences versus fragments
• Simple and compound sentences
• Using independent and dependent clauses in sentences
• Parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections
• Run-on sentences
• Four types of sentences – declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative
• Conjunctions – FANBOYS
• Building complex sentences and subordinating conjunctions
• Compound-complex sentences
• Figures of speech – similes, metaphors, and analogies
• Creating complex sentences with adjective clauses/relative clauses
• Nouns that are gerunds
• Distinguishing and converting between active and passive voice
• Palindromes
• Commas with clauses and commas in a list
• Colons for introducing a list, colons in formal letters, colons in memo salutations
• Colons to give an explanation or an example
• Semicolons versus commas
• Commas with direct address, commas with appositives, commas after transitional words
• Vocabulary – using context clues to read unfamiliar words
• Subject-verb agreement
• Identifying synonyms
• Fluency readings
• Using expression and intonations while reading
• Capitals for historical periods or events
• Proper adjectives and capitalization
• Word origins – words influenced by people, places, and events in history
• Word origins – words that have changed over time
• Word origins – words with Greek and Latin roots that are still used today
• Word origins – words in English with French, First Nation, Métis, and Inuit roots
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 6 - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 6, Alberta Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.