6th Grade
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What is Language Arts Plus?
This yearlong course is designed around the Read 180 framework and the sixth grade curriculum for language arts. The course is designed to support students with reading fluency and comprehension, written expression, vocabulary skills and development, and critical thinking skills through the exploration of both fiction and nonfiction texts. Course Outline Workshop One: The New Americans Comprehension Focus: Main Idea and Details Writing Focus: Informational Paragraph Argumentative Debate Maniac Magee Unit Focus: Character, Plot, Theme, Point of View, Figurative Language Narrative Writing Unit Workshop Two: When Disaster Strikes Comprehension Focus: Sequence of Events Writing Focus: Narrative Paragraph Research Project-Disasters Informational Writing Unit Workshop Four: Stolen Childhoods Workshop Four: Stolen Childhoods Comprehension Focus: Summarize Writing Focus: Informational Summary Argument Texts and Response Argumentative Writing Unit Nonfiction Unit Focus: Text features and Text structures Workshop Three: Identity Crisis Comprehension Focus: Story Elements Writing Focus: Literary Analysis Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Nonfiction Memoir Unit *Grammar will be embedded in all units throughout the course of the year |