● For your Common Core curriculum.
● Increase reading comprehension skills with motivating high-interest articles.
● Contains numerous comprehension skills including: comparing and contrasting, drawing conclusions, identifying mood, summarizing, and recognizing literary styles.
● Detailed graphic organizers aid students’ comprehension.
● Allows for daily practice, assists students to become competent readers, and encourages nonfiction reading in different content areas.
● 144 pages.
● Click Here for Sample CCSS Product Alignment ELA Grade 6 RL.6.3 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.
● RL.6.4 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 RL.6.5 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.
● RL.6.10 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.
● RI.6.7 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.
● W.6.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
● (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3.) W.6.5 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
● (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 6.) W.6.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
● W.6.9a Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “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”).
● W.6.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
● SL.6.1c Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
● L.6.3a Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
● L.6.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.