Ideal for preparing your sixth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series provides scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential writing forms, such as: - Argument - Cause and effect - Compare and contrast - Explanatory - Opinion The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes: - a dictionary page that introduces content words - close reading of a leveled nonfiction article - text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding - a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing - a text-dependent writing prompt - a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features - Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
- Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference.
- The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
- The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy The sixth grade content-area topics fall under these categories: - Biographies - Health articles - Science articles - Social studies articles - Technology articles - Visual arts articles.
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| Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes | a dictionary page that introduces content words close reading of a leveled nonfiction article textdependent comprehension questions to support understanding a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing a textdependent writing prompt a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay |
| The sixth grade content-area topics fall under these categories |
Evan Moor Educational Publishers Text based writing nonfiction, grade 6, paperback/evan-moor educational publishers
