Grade 6 Reading Unit Plans
Theme: Adventure
Standards
Read four adventure stories.
Theme: Becoming
Standards
Read five realistic stories about growing up.
Theme: Experiences
Standards:
Read five stories based on personal experiences of the authors.
Theme: Timeless Tales
Standards:
Read six timeless tales:
Theme: Novel
Standards:
Theme: Nonfiction - Discovering Ancient Egypt
Content:
Read three nonfiction selections and a photographic feature about ancient Egypt:
Theme: Nonfiction - Exploring the Oceans
Standards:
Read about interesting scientific facts and theories in four nonfiction selections about exploring the oceans:
Theme: Poetry
Standards:
Read several poems by two authors
Resources/Materials
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Standards
- learn how characters face conflicts within themselves and with their environments
- use the preview and predict strategy
- note sequence of events
- evaluate story settings
- use story details to identify or infer conflict
- select books to read and writing projects to complete independently
- develop a travel guide for adventurers
- write an eyewitness account of a real-life adventure
Read four adventure stories.
- “Boar Out There” from the book Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant
- “Slaves No More” from the book Profiles in Black and White by Elizabeth Chittenden
- “Survival at Sea” by Ariane Randall
- “Long Claws” by James Houston
- Independent Reading and Writing
- Building Background
- Developing Vocabulary
- Reading and Responding to Literature
- Developing Skills Through Literature (Setting, Pacing and Sequence of Events)
Theme: Becoming
Standards
- Put yourselves in each character’s place and imagine how you would feel
- Understand how characters experience growth and change in their everyday lives:
- Summarize realistic writing;
- Identify or infer setting, mood, characterization, and dialogue;
- Infer theme, using the Stop and Think Strategy.
- Complete self-selected reading and writing projects.
- Create an album of the lives of famous people and the childhood events that influenced them.
- Write a description of scene from the past.
Read five realistic stories about growing up.
- “Sister” from the text book Beyond the Reef by Eloise Greenfield
- “The Circuit” from Cuentos Chicanos by Francisco Jimenez
- “Papa’s Parrot” from Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant
- “The Bracelet” by Yoshiko Uchida from The Scribner Anthology for Young People
- “The Scribe” from Gusts in the Promised Land
- Independent Reading and Writing
- Building Background
- Developing Vocabulary
- Reading and Responding to Literature
- Developing Skills Through Literature (Characterization, Setting, Foreshadowing)
Theme: Experiences
Standards:
- Learn to identify, appreciate, and evaluate personal narrative selections.
- Identify characteristics of personal narrative and its use of story elements.
- Identify the theme.
- Use critical reading strategies.
- Work on self-selected independent reading and writing projects.
- Work in a group to create a time capsule.
- Write about an important incident in your own life.
Read five stories based on personal experiences of the authors.
- “The Figgerin of Aunt Wilma” from Thurber Country by James Thurber
- “Summer School” from Living Up the Street by Gary Soto
- “Daddy” from Talk That Talk by Yolanda King in collaboration with Hilda R. Tompkins
- From Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
- From Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
- Independent Reading and Writing
- Building Background
- Developing Vocabulary
- Reading and Responding to Literature
- Developing Skills Through Literature (Setting, Pacing and Sequence of Events)
Theme: Timeless Tales
Standards:
- Understand how lessons are taught through traditional tales
- Select and use strategies to help
- understand tale
- draw conclusions
- make inferences
- compare and contrast lessons
- identify characteristics of traditional tales
- Choose books and writing projects to work on independently.
- Create a display of information about cultures from around the world.
- Write a story.
Read six timeless tales:
- “Brer Rabbit and Brer Cooter Race” retold by William J. Faulkner
- “The Hunter Who Wanted Air” by Alex Whitney
- “The Very Angry Ghost” told by Spotted Elk and retold by Richard Erdoes
- “The Headless Rider” from Stories That Must Not Die retold by Juan Suvageau
- “Old Plott” by Ellis Credle
- “The Alligator War” by Horacio Quiroga
- Independent Reading and Writing
- Building Background
- Developing Vocabulary
- Reading and Responding to Literature
- Developing Skills Through Literature (Plot, Exaggeration, and Irony)
Theme: Novel
Standards:
- Understand how an author develops themes in a novel:
- Select and use appropriate reading strategies,
- Identify and interpret symbols,
- Recognize and interpret an author’s use of flashback.
- Select books and writing projects of special interest to work on independently.
- Observe and study human behavior by taking a poll.
- Write a play.
- “The Summer of the Swans” by Betsy Byars.
- Independent Reading and Writing
- Building Background
- Developing Vocabulary
- Reading and Responding to Literature
- Developing Skills Through Literature (Symbolism, Flashback)
Theme: Nonfiction - Discovering Ancient Egypt
Content:
Read three nonfiction selections and a photographic feature about ancient Egypt:
- From “A Message of Ancient Days” a social studies textbook
- “Seeing the Unseen” from Tales Mummies Tell by Patricia Lauber
- “The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen” from Lost Worlds: The Romance of Archaeology by Anne Terry White
- Learn how to read, interpret, and evaluate different kinds of history writing.
- Use a K-W-L chart.
- Preview selections and ask questions.
- Identify cause and effect relationship.
- Evaluate opinions.
- Recognize text organization and sources of information.
- Select books and writing projects to work on independently.
- Create a museum of ancient Egypt.
- Write a solution to a modern environmental problem.
- Independent Reading and Writing
- Building Background
- Developing Vocabulary
- Reading and Responding to Literature
- Developing Skills Through Literature (Understanding Cause and Effect Relationship in History Writing, Identifying Information from the Arts)
Theme: Nonfiction - Exploring the Oceans
Standards:
- Learn to summarize and evaluate various kinds of science writing: identify characteristics of science writing, use the SQP3R Reading Strategy, summarize informational text, and recall supporting details.
- Gather scientific information and write a report.
- Demonstrate how to do something or how something happens.
- Select books and writing projects to work on independently.
Read about interesting scientific facts and theories in four nonfiction selections about exploring the oceans:
- “Treasures of the Andrea Doria” from Treasures of the Deep by Walter Oleksy
- “Oceans of the Earth” from Earth Science, a science textbook
- “Discovering the Oceans” from Under the High Sea: New Frontiers in Oceanography by Margaret Poynter and Donald Collins
- From Lurkers of the Deep: Life Within the Ocean Depths by Bruce H. Robison
- Independent Reading and Writing
- Building Background
- Developing Vocabulary
- Reading and Responding to Literature
- Developing Skills Through Literature (Noting Details to Identify Main Ideas and Make Inferences, Understanding the Uses of Categorization)
Theme: Poetry
Standards:
- Understand poet’s distinctive use of language
- Become acquainted with some subjects that stimulate the poet’s imagination
- Understand poet’s special style
Read several poems by two authors
- Moments in Time-Pat Mora
- Moving Pictures -James Berry
- Independent Reading and Writing
- Building Background
- Developing Vocabulary
- Reading and Responding to Literature
- Developing Skills Through Literature (Simile, Metaphor, and Personification, Rhyme, Rhythm, Repetition, Alliteration, and Onomatopoeia)
Resources/Materials
- Text Book
- Computer and projector
- iPads
- Internet
http://www.englishdaily626.com/comprehension_1.html