BMS Sixth Grade Reading Suggested Curriculum Map

Draft last revised 10.20.08

Month	Content	Skills	Possible Resources	Assessments
	Instruction will be targeted in these areas for the listed months (or a comparable time chosen by each teacher based on student needs), but every content and skill area will continue to be used throughout the year.	These are building blocks for achieving competence in the content areas.	These are suggestions and may not necessarily all be used in every classroom every year.	Most assessments are used formatively to determine the course of future instruction and may be implemented and used differently in each classroom.
Ongoing	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • Vocabulary • Fluency of reading • Note taking • Answering WASL/CBA type questions	• Vocabulary Learning more words Prefixes/suffixes/roots Context clues Synonyms Antonyms Analogies • Answering WASL/CBA type questions -Using text-based evidence -Explain/clarify/support/prove/ quote/argument/rationale/ connections	• Wordly Wise • More Prefixes and Suffixes: Greek and Latin Roots	• Reading logs
August	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • Overview of pre-, during, and after reading skills	• Before Reading: “4 Ps” Purpose, preview, prior knowledge, predict • During Reading Skills Ask questions Connections and reactions Determine importance Infer and predict Visualize Clarifying meaning Fix-up strategies -Re-read text -Context clues -Ask for help -Dictionary use • After Reading Skills: Main idea, summary, vocabulary, infer and predict, literary elements/text features, cause and effect, compare and contrast, author’s purpose, evaluating, extending beyond the text	• Reading skills bookmarks
September	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • Informational Text Features • Before Reading: “4 Ps” Review • Summarizing • Literary Elements • During Reading: Fix Up Strategies and Making Connections	• Informational Text Features Chapter title Subtitles/subheadings Boldfaced words Captions Diagrams Maps Illustrations Table of contents Index Glossary • Before Reading: “4 Ps” Review Purpose, preview, prior knowledge, predict • Summarizing Beginning/middle/end Paraphrasing Summary statements • Literary Elements Plot elements -Exposition -Conflict -Rising action -Climax -Falling action -Resolution • During Reading: Fix Up Strategies and Making Connections Fix-up strategies -Re-read text -Context clues -Ask for help -Dictionary use Text-to-self and text-to-text connections	• CBA binder • Read aloud novel and/or storybooks • Prentice Hall Literature • 6^th grade teacher co-created Prentice Hall Literature textbook resources • Geography texts • Nonfiction posters and poster format	• GATES/Reading Maze • DIBELS fluency • CBA #1 (High Above it All)
October	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • Predictions • Inferences • During Reading: Make Connections	• During Reading: Make Connections: Text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world	• Plot elements poster • CBA binder • Prentice Hall Literature • 6^th grade teacher co-created Prentice Hall Literature textbook resources Suggested stories: • “The Drive-In Movies: “The Homecoming” “Market Square Dog” “Stray” (includes point of view and plot) • “Dragon, Dragon” “Zlateh the Goat” “The Old Woman Who Lived with the Wolves” “The Tail” (includes characterization and conflict) • Novels or storybooks • Geography texts
November	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • Main idea and supporting details • During Reading: Determine Importance	• Main idea and supporting details Paraphrasing Theme Summary statements	• CBA binder • Prentice Hall Literature • 6^th grade teacher co-created Prentice Hall Literature textbook resources Suggested stories: • “The Pigman and Me” “Turkeys” “Langston Terrace” “La Lena Buena” (includes mood and author’s influence) • Novels • Geography texts	• CBA #2 (Cricket War, The Care of Crickets)
December	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • During Reading: Ask Questions • Author’s Purpose	• Author’s Purpose Persuade Inform Entertain Other purposes	• CBA binder • Prentice Hall Literature • 6^th grade teacher co-created Prentice Hall Literature textbook resources Suggested stories: • “Hard as Nails” “Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last” “The Shutout” “Water” (includes autobiography) • Novels • The Ancient World and other ancient civilizations texts
January	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • Poetry: Literary elements	• Poetry: Literary elements Alliteration Tone/mood Foreshadowing Figurative language Idiom Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Repetition Simile	• CBA binder • Prentice Hall Literature • 6^th grade teacher co-created Prentice Hall Literature textbook resources • Novels • The Ancient World and other ancient civilizations texts
February	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • During Reading: Make Connections • Compare and Contrast • During Reading: Make Connections • Cause and effect	• Compare and Contrast Comparing can include differences • Cause and effect Chain reactions	• CBA binder • Prentice Hall Literature • 6^th grade teacher co-created Prentice Hall Literature textbook resources Suggested stories: • “Letters from Concentration…” “Letter to Scottie” “Becky and the Wheels” “Southpaw” “Sound of Summer Running” “Eleven” “Why Monkeys…” “The Case of Monkeys” “Stage Fright” “My Papa, Mark Twain” (includes author’s style, character’s motives, symbolism, fiction vs. nonfiction, author’s perspective, fact vs. opinion, author’s purpose) • “The Lion and the Bulls” “A Crippled Boy” “The Tiger…” “The Ant and the Dove” “The Whale Rider” “Arachne” (includes fables and myths) • Novels • The Ancient World and other ancient civilizations texts	• CBA #3 (They’re Made Out of Meat, Aliens from Earth) • Reading maze
March	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • During Reading: Connections • Evaluating reasoning • Extending beyond the text	• Extending beyond the text: During Reading: Connections Text-to-world	• CBA binder • Prentice Hall Literature • 6^th grade teacher co-created Prentice Hall Literature textbook resources Suggested stories: • Several other short stories for evaluating reasoning • “The All-American Slurp” “The Circuit” “Aaron’s Gift” “The King of Mazy May” (includes theme and setting) • Novels • The Ancient World and other ancient civilizations texts
April	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • Review During Reading: Determining Importance • Review Summarize	• Reviewing and applying previously taught skills	• CBA binder • Prentice Hall Literature • 6^th grade teacher co-created Prentice Hall Literature textbook resources • Novels • The Ancient World and other ancient civilizations texts	• CBA #4 (Pumpkin Patch, Grandma’s Hill) • WASL (The WASL is a summative, final evaluation, unlike the other assessments.)
May	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) • Review Ask Questions • Review Author’s Purpose • Review Evaluate Reasoning • Review Extending Beyond the Text	• Reviewing and applying previously taught skills	• CBA binder • Novels • The Ancient World and other ancient civilizations texts	• GATES/Reading Maze • DIBELS fluency
June	See WA State Grade Level Expectations (GLEs)	• Reviewing and applying previously taught skills	• CBA binder • Novels • The Ancient World and other ancient civilizations texts