Grade 6 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Alberta Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 6 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Alberta Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 6 Reading Comprehension unit in the 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 workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all skills and procedures in the organizing ideas: Text Forms and Structures as well as Comprehension. The 323 pages teach the skills and procedures in these two curriculum areas.

We’ve included a variety of activities, including independent reading responses, group activities, assignments, experiments, exemplars, and hands-on activities to keep your students engaged.

Included in this resource are the organizing ideas below:

Text Forms and Structures: taught throughout the unit, with the use of 10 different blocks of text forms, including narratives, reports, poetry, comic strips, letters, procedural writing, book reviews, persuasive writing, and biographies.

Comprehension: as students learn about the text forms and structures of different types of writing, they will practice reading comprehension skills. They will read these different text forms, and use before reading, during reading, and after reading comprehension strategies – inferencing, visualizing, predicting, summarizing, making connections, synthesizing, and questioning. We have also included an independent reading response booklet.

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week/block.

Some of the concepts 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

Google Lesson Slides

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

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.