Language Arts and PI Language Arts

 

Textbooks: The Language of Literature and The Writer’s Craft

Approved novels for sixth grade

 

The sixth grade curriculum includes a variety of language arts activities.  The students will be focusing on reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, spelling and grammar, and technology in an integrated curriculum.

 

The Project Idea (P.I.) language arts curriculum is differentiated to meet the needs of academically talented learners by changing the process, content, product, or learning environment in which students are engaged. 

 

Some of our units of study:

 

Introductions

·        Who I Am

·        Introduction presentations

 

Learning Resource Center skills

·        LRC orientation

·        LRC scavenger hunt

·        Dictionary & Encyclopedia

·        Research skills

·        Computer skills

·        Internet searches

 

Biography and autobiography

·        Novel of student choosing

·        Short stories

 

Friends and family

·        Personal narrative

·        Descriptive writing

·        Novel study

 

Literary terms

 

Survival

·        Novel study

·        Nonfiction reading selections

·        Comparison/contrast essay

 

Metacognitive reading strategies

 

Greek/Roman

·        Research project

·        Greek myths

·        Greek and Roman root words, prefixes, and suffixes

 

Medieval

·        Novel study

·        Heraldry project

·        Expository essay

 

Renaissance

·        Novel study

 

Science fiction

·        Novel study

·        Creative writing

 

Spelling & Vocabulary

 

Grammar and usage skills

·        Eight parts of speech

·        Capitalization

·        Punctuation

 

Poetry

 

Writing skills

·        The writing process

·        6+1 Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, Presentation

 

 

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