New York - Grade 6 English Language Arts (ELA) - FULL YEAR BUNDLE
Grade 6 – New York English Language Arts (ELA) Curriculum – This bundle was created to cover the outcomes in all clusters of the English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum.
There are 1400+ activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the English Language Arts curriculum. This comprehensive bundle contains readings, hands-on activities, true/false, diagrams, reflections, word searches and more. We’ve presented the material in a variety of text forms, including reports, news articles, blog posts, and stories. There is also a unit test and answer pages for all activities!
Reading Unit (Literary and Informational Text)
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Understanding Text Types – Mirror Texts and Window Texts
- What are reading comprehension strategies?
- 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
- Activity: Exploring Ecosystems – using before reading, during reading, and after reading strategies
- Reading stamina progress charts
- Identity, social responsibility and efficacy
- Monitoring understanding of texts – use strategies to refocus and re-engage when reading complex texts
- 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
- Describing the identity of fictional characters and comparing that identity with their own
- 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
- 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, accessibility, social issues, moral dilemmas, and social justice
- Research – Confirm the accuracy of information presented in a report
- 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 biographies – using a glossary and a preface to understand a biography
- Carl Sagan, Michael Faraday, Wilma Mankiller, and Peggy Whitson biographies with prefaces and glossaries
- Activity: analyzing multimedia features (bold fonts, visuals, layout, music, colors, etc.)
- Metacognitive strategies: reading tracking charts and reading goals
- Answer pages for all activities
Language Standards (Reading Conventions)
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
- Reading strategies – questioning, predicting, summarizing, making inferences, and visualizing activities
- 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
- Literary devices – similes, metaphors, personification, symbolism, and imagery
- Creating complex sentences with adjective clauses/relative clauses
- Nouns that are gerunds
- Distinguishing and converting between active and passive voice
- Using rhythm in writing
- 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
- Using expression and intonations while reading
- Capitals for historical periods or events
- Proper adjectives and capitalization
- Reading between the lines – making inferences
- General word knowledge activities
- Regional dialects – standard American English versus American English, formal/informal registers, slang
- Formal and informal language – slang, social media texts, academic language
- Reconstructing texts – changing a news article into a short story or a formal text message into an informal one
- Word origins – words influenced by people, places, and events in history
- Fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
- Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
- Answer pages for all activities
Writing Learning Standards
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
- 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
- Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
- Writing using figurative language – similes, metaphors, imagery
- Characterization – creating funny, mysterious, fantasy, and adventurous characters
- Character development – describe how characters change over time due to big events
- Using quotations in our narratives – dialogue
- Adding quotations to pre-made stories
- 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
- Multimedia how-to-guide: taking pictures to represent and support text in a how-to-guide
- Writing a report – America’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
- Writing a problem/solution report
- 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, humor 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
- Reconstructing texts – translating texts from one form to another – e.g., letter to news report, infographic to story
- Inquiry project – students choose a topic and formulate questions to guide their research
- Answer pages for all activities
Speaking and Listening Standards
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Activity: Whisper Chain (Broken Telephone)
- Activity: Listener Leads
- Activity: Eye Contact Experiment
- Activity: Two Truths and a Lie - Detail Edition
- Activity: Listening Links
- Persuasive Techniques in Communication
- Activity: The Art of Persuasion
- Activity: Eco-Warriors' Campaign
- Activity: Socratic Seminar
- Activity: Creating a Story Circle
- Activity: Opinion Identification Game
- Activity: Community Helpers and Their Challenges
- Activity: The Justice Puzzle
- Activity: Podcast Analysis
- Activity: Listening Stations Activity
- Activity: Debate Club
- Activity: Historical Role-Play
- Activity: Character Creation Carousel
- Activity: Readers’ Theater
- Activity: Public Speaking 101
- Activity: Transforming Texts
- Activity: Active to Passive Voice Relay
- Activity: Story Builders
- Activity: Topic Toss
- Activity: Panel Discussion
- Activity: Speech for Different Audiences
- Activity: Poetry Slam
- Activity: Puppet Theater Showtime
- Activity: Inventors' Pitch
- Activity: Word Choice Exercise
- Activity: Story Stitchers
- Activity: Charades
- Activity: Charades with a Twist
- Activity: News Reporter Role-Play
- Activity: Cultural Exchange Circle
- Activity: Classroom Newscast
- Activity: Visual Aids and Speech
- Activity: Science Fair Presentations
- Activity: Public Speaking Challenge
- Activity: Digital Storytelling Project
- Activity: The Story Chain
This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning outcomes in the English Language Arts curriculum.
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