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

Grade 6 - Reading Comprehension Unit - BC Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 6 Reading Comprehension unit in the BC 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 learning standards, elaborations, and Big Ideas related to reading strategies, comprehension, text forms, and stories in the grade 6 British Columbia Language (ELA) curriculum. There are 376 pages for students to master the skills they need to meet the requirements of the curriculum.

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 learning standards below:

Story/Text: elements of story, functions and genres, text features, and literary elements and devices.

Reading Strategies: using contextual clues; using phonics and word structure; visualizing; questioning; predicting; previewing text; summarizing; making inferences

Metacognitive Strategies: goal setting, self-evaluating, and reflections

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, imagery, simile
• Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• Comedy story, tragedy story, and historical fiction story
• Character analysis – protagonist, antagonist and stock characters
• Characterization – character traits, decision making, and evolution of 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
• Cross-curricular connections – text forms related to themes in science and social studies (electricity, USMCA)
• Persuasive writing – using critical thinking skills to determine bias
• Techniques of persuasion: the use of emotional and logical appeals to persuade
• 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
• Research – Confirm the accuracy of information presented in a report
• Land Literacy Report: Inuit inuksuit, Métis lobsticks, Coastal First Nations totem poles
• Expository texts – How to guides
• Use of graphs, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Literary devices used in poetry – idioms and hyperbole
• Assignment – dissecting poems written by Indigenous authors
• Understanding haiku, limericks, acrostic poems, cinquain poems, and rhyming poems
• 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
• Metacognitive strategies: reading tracking charts and reading goals
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

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