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Exercise Topics - Grade 6 ELA, week 11

Topic Study References *
Use the text's structure or progression of ideas such as cause and effect or chronology to locate and recall information (4-8)
  • FV “Meeting Mr. Henry”pg.84
  • “The Fury of a Hurricane” pg.148
  • FV “The Marble Champ” pg.268
  • FV “Paul Reveres’ Ride” pg.536
  • Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies, and autobiographies (3-7);
  • SIB “Half Chicken” pg.346
  • SIB “Poetry” pg.450-453, 550-553
  • FV “Babe to the Rescue”pg.302
  • “When the Rain Came Up From China” pg.349
  • “How the Sun Came” pg.389
  • “The Cat in the Bag” pg.514
  • Draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience (4-8)
  • SIB “Drawing Conclusions” pg.258
  • SIB “Marvin of the Great North Woods” pg.260
  • SIB “Counting Money” pg.278
  • TEKSTAR: 110.6 “All Aboard” Whistle Stop
  • FV "I Want to Vote" pg.448
  • TEKSTAR,110.7
  • “What is the Main Idea of Games/”
  • Draw conclusions from information gathered from multiple sources (4-8);
  • RC Pueblo Storyteller – Hoyt-Goldsmith
  • FV “Just Telling the Truth” pg.616
  • Determine a text’s main (or major) ideas and how those ideas are supported with details (4-8)
  • Project CRISS
  • FV ”The Jr.Iditarod Race” pg.354
  • RC Childtimes
  • TEKSTAR, 110.7
  • “Creative Fairy Tales”
  • write in complete sentences, varying the types such as compound and complex, and use of appropriately punctuated dependent clauses (6);
  • Six Traits + 1
  • HL pg.24-27,38,39,52,53,56,57,62,63,338-343
  • Learn the basic reading and test taking techniques that could be useful in certain situation. Such as reading the first sentence of each paragraph, skipping details, narrowing down the right answers, and etc.
  • Develop vocabulary through reading
  • JOW "Yippee-Yay" pg.196
  • JOW "Visitors From Space" pg.344
  • Revise drafts for coherence, progression, and logical support of ideas (4-8);
  • Six Traits + 1
  • recognize how style, tone, and mood contribute to the effect of the text (6-8).
  • Distinguish between fact and opinion in various texts (4-8)
  • SIB “Fact and Opinion” pg.596
  • SIB “Coming Home” pg.598
  • TEKSTAR: 110.6 “Just the Facts Please”
  • TEKSTAR, 110.7
  • “Fanciful Folk Tales”
  • Identify the purposes of different types of texts such as to inform, influence, express, or entertain (4-8)
  • SIB “A Visit with Grandpa” pg.22
  • SIB “Ranching and the Cowboys” pg.41
  • Determine meanings of derivatives by applying knowledge of the meanings of root words such as like, pay, or happy and affixes such as dis-, pre-, and un- (4-8)
  • HL pg.211
  • FV “The Memory Box” pg424
  • describe how the author's perspective or point of view affects the text (4-8).
  • SIB “John Henry” pg.240
  • Employ standard English usage in writing for audiences, including subject-verb agreement, pronoun referents, and parts of speech (4-8);
  • HL pg.52, 92, 120, 130, 164, 174, 192, 202

  • * SFAW ---- Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley, ENGLISH STUDENT EDITION
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