Sixth Grade
Sixth grade
reading curriculum is based on the assessment anchors which are provided by the
Pennsylvania Dept of Education. Some of our areas of focus are: identifying/explaining
main ideas and relevant details, summarizing, understanding components
within/between texts, drawing inferences and conclusions, recognizing and
developing a basic understanding of figurative language, determining author’s
purpose as well as genre, and point of view.
Our textbook is
entitled Quest and is published by
Houghton Mifflin. We will be concentrating on four basic themes: Survival,
Unwrapped Ancient Mysteries, Finding Common Ground and Ocean Quest.
In addition,
students will be required to have a novel with them at all times in the middle
school. This novel will be used for a book project which is required each
marking period.
Thematic Unit #1: Survival
Thematic Unit #2: Unwrapping Ancient Mysteries
Thematic Unit #3: Finding Common Ground
Thematic Unit #4: Ocean Quest
Mrs. Nichols, Team A