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
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)
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
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
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
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
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