Sixth Grade ELA Pacing Guide. Unit and Week Title Genre Target Concepts

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1 Sixth Grade ELA Pacing Guide Unit and Week Title Genre Target Concepts Unit 1, Week 1 Old Yeller Historical Fiction Plot and Setting, Four Types of Sentences, Synonyms, and Reading with Expression, Writing a Narrative Unit 1, Week 2 Mother Fletcher s Gift Realistic Fiction Character, Theme, Subjects and Predicates, Greek and Latin Roots, Thank you letter Unit 1, Week 3 Viva New Jersey Realistic Fiction Compare/Contrast, Summarize, Independent/Dependent Clauses, Unfamiliar Words, Writing a Poem Unit 1, Week 4 Saving the Rain Forests Expository Test Fact/Opinion, Important Ideas, Compound/Complex Sentences, words ending in ed and s, Writing a Problem/Solution Essay Unit 1, Week 5 Hachiko Historical Fiction Fact/Opinion, Questioning (while reading), Common/Proper Nouns, Organizing Paragraphs, suffixes ly, ous, Journal Entry Unit 1, Week 6 Review Week

2 Unit 2, Week 1 The Universe Expository Text Main Idea and Details, Monitor and Clarify (while reading), Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns, Greek and Latin roots Unit 2, Week 2 The Emperor s Silent Army Expository Text Main Idea/Details, Background (prior) Knowledge, Possessive Nouns, Suffixes ful, less, ly, al, Writing a Mystery. Quarter One Fall Break Unit 2, Week 3 Oct 19 28th NWEA Unit 2, Week 4 Oct 29 Nov 4th Unit 2, Week 5 Nov 5th Nov 11th Unit 2, Week 6 Nov 12th November 24th Stones, Bones, and Petroglyphs Expository Text Graphic Sources Text Structure, Action and Linking Verbs, Unknown words Dictionary/Glossary, Action and Linking Verbs Good Bye to the Moon Science Fiction Compare/Contrast, Story Structure, Subject Verb Agreement, Using Context Clues for Unfamiliar Words, Expression in Reading, Egypt Expository Text Graphic Sources, Past/Present/Future Tense, Greek and Latin Roots Review Week Start Ball Book Report, *Benchmark Assessment* Grandparents Day, Second Fluency Assessment, Veteran s Day, Book Fair, Unit 2 Benchmark (after the 12th)

3 November 30 December 4 December 7 December 11 Novel Study Ball Book Report DUE 12/11/15 FIRM Six Books to choose from, groups of 5 students December 13 December 18 Put Ball Report Together Novel Study Wrap Up Friday Movie Quarter Two Christmas Break

4 January 2016 Week and Unit Title Genre Target Concepts Unit 3, Week 1 Hatchet Realistic Fiction Sequence, Background/Prior Knowledge, Principal Parts of Regular Verbs, Word Endings ed, ing, Phrasing, Writing a Speech Unit 3, Week 2 When Marian Sang Biography Generalizing, Questioning, Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs, Suffixes ic, ous, ation, Writing a Biography Unit 3, Week 3 Learning to Swim Autobiography Sequence, Predict and Set Purpose, Verbs, Objects and Subject Complements, Synonyms/ Context Clues, Autobiographical Sketch, How to Demonstration Unit 3, Week 4 Juan Verdades Folk Tale Generalize, Visualize, Troublesome Verbs, Prefixes re, and dis, Writing a Folk Tale, Expression when reading. Unit 3, Week 5 Morning Traffic Drama (Play) Drawing Conclusions, Story Structure, Prepositions, Antonyms/Context Clues, Personal Narrative, Unit 3, Week 6 Review Week Writing Unit Benchmark Unit 3

5 Unit 4, Week 1 (6.2 Book) Into the Ice Narrative Fiction Cause and Effect, Important Ideas, Subject and Object Pronouns, Unfamiliar Unit 4, Week 2 The Chimpanzees I Love Expository Text Author s Purpose, Text Structure, Pronouns and Antecedents, Unknown Words Dictionary/Glossary Unit 4, Week 3 Black Frontiers Expository Text Cause/Effect, Inferring, Possessive Pronouns, Unfamiliar Unit 4, Week 4 Deep Sea Danger Drama (Play) Drawing Conclusions, Predict and Set Purpose, Indefinite and Reflexive Pronouns, Multiple Meaning Words Context Clues Unit 4, Week 5 Inventing the Future Biography Author s Purpose, Monitor and Clarify (while reading), Using Who and Whom, Prefixes re, pro, trans Unit 4, Week 6 Review Week Benchmark Unit 4

6 Unit 5, Week 1 The View From Saturday Humorous Fiction Plot and Theme, Summarize, Contractions and Negatives, Antonyms/Context Clues Unit 5, Week 2 Harvesting Hope Biography Fact and Opinion, Text Structure, Adjectives and Articles, Homonyms/Context Clues Unit 5, Week 3 The River That Went to the Sky Myth Cause and Effect, Story Structure, Demonstrative Adjectives, Synonyms/Context Clues Unit 5, Week 4 Gold Expository Text Main Ideas and Details, Background Knowledge, Comparative and Superlative Adjectives, Unfamiliar Unit 5, Week 5 Greensburg Goes Green Expository Text Sequence, Monitor and Clarify, Adverbs, Unknown Words/Dictionary and Glossary Unit 5, Week 6 Review Week Benchmark Unit 5

7 Unit 6, Week 1 Don Quixote and the Windmills Classic Historical Fiction Author s Purpose, Questioning, Modifers, Prefixes and Word Structure Unit 6, Week 2 Ancient Greece Expository Text Graphic Sources, Predict and Set Purpose, Conjunctions, Unfamiliar Unit 6, Week 3 The All American Slurp Realistic Fiction Compare/Contrast, Inferring, Commas, Multiple Meanings/Context Clues Unit 6, Week 4 The Aztec News Informational Text Drawing Conclusions, Important Ideas, Quotations and Quotation Marks, Multiple Meaning Words Unit 6, Week 5 Where Opportunity Awaits Expository Text Generalize, Visualize, Punctuation, Synonyms Unit 6, Week 6 Review Week Benchmark Unit 6

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