Description

Provide your sixth-grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support current standards learning paths

The informational texts cover 6th grade content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.

What's Inside:
Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including a:

• dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary
• close reading activity
• reading comprehension activity
• vocabulary activity
• text structure activity

The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.

Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations to current standards is provided for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home.
• Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students

The informational texts and structures for 6th grade cover:

Science Articles: The Force of Magnetism (Question and Answer); Food Webs in Ecosystems (Cause and Effect); Genes for Survival (Main Idea and Details)

Social Studies Articles: Comparing Rights and Responsibilities (Compare and Contrast); Ancient Economies (Main Idea and Details)

Biography Articles: Phillis Wheatley: Antislavery Poet (Question and Answer); Colin Powell: An American Leader (Time Order)

How-to Articles: How to Grow a Container Garden (Time Order); How to Evaluate Online Sources (Question and Answer); How to Reuse Items and Reduce Waste (Cause and Effect)

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

About Evan-Moor
A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.