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6th grade 19 TAC §110.22 82 student expectations 13 activities

6th grade Reading & Writing

Sixth grade reading and writing moves into analysis: plot and conflict, theme, point of view, argument, and research, with writing that organizes evidence across multiple paragraphs.

Practice activities

🔍Word Detective: Roots and ContextGreek and Latin roots, context clues (definition, analogy, example), and what a dictionary entry tells you.
🚀Typing Rocket: Academic WordsType academic words and words built on Greek and Latin roots (mit, bene, man, vac, scrib, jus) accurately.
🧺Word Catch: Parts of Speech and RootsCatch parts of speech, Greek and Latin roots, and words by connotation.
🧠The Active ReaderSet a purpose, ask questions, predict, picture, connect, infer, weigh details, synthesize, and fix it when understanding breaks down.
💬Responding to TextsPersonal connections, written responses that compare sources, text evidence, paraphrase and summary, notetaking and annotation, new vocabulary, explicit and implicit meaning, register and tone, and revising a response when new evidence appears.
📓Cornell NotesPractice the five Rs of Cornell Notes, write cues that make you think, take notes while listening, and write strong summaries.
📚Genres and How Texts Are BuiltLiterary genres, meter and line breaks in poems, dialogue and staging in drama, thesis and organizational patterns in informational text, and claim, evidence, and audience in arguments.
📖Conflict and PlotFive conflict types and five plot stages.
🏗️How Nonfiction Is BuiltTake apart informational and argumentative texts: controlling idea, organizational patterns, text features, claim, evidence, and how a writer handles the other side.
🎭Author's Craft: Purpose, Point of View, and DevicesPurpose and message, how structure and graphics serve a purpose, metaphor and personification, omniscient vs. limited point of view, mood and voice, and rhetorical devices vs. logical fallacies.
✍️Writing Workshop: Plan, Draft, Edit, PublishChoose a genre for the purpose and audience, organize with an introduction, transitions, and conclusion, develop ideas with specific details, edit conventions, publish, and compose narratives, informational essays, arguments, and letters, checking sources on the way.
✏️Editor's Desk: Sentences and ConventionsFixing fragments, run-ons, and comma splices; verb tense; conjunctive adverbs; prepositional phrases and agreement; relative pronouns; subordinating and correlative conjunctions; capitals; commas; commonly confused words.
🧪Research Lab: Sources, Credibility, and CitationsResearch questions and plans, primary vs. secondary sources, synthesizing, paraphrase vs. plagiarism, reliability and bias, faulty reasoning, citations, and how to present results.

The learning path

One stop per unit. Filled stops have practice activities today.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. Th2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary.3Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. Th4Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustai5Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacog6Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an in7Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The studen8Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognize9Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses c10Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses11Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre ch12Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in b

Units and standards preview

The knowledge-and-skills strands below are the state's, reproduced from English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 6, Adopted 2017. Open a unit to read each student expectation and jump to the activities that practice it.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.0/4 practiced
  1. (A) listen actively to interpret a message, ask clarifying questions, and respond appropriately;
    19 TAC 110.22(b)(1)(A)
  2. (B) follow and give oral instructions that include multiple action steps;
    19 TAC 110.22(b)(1)(B)
  3. (C) give an organized presentation with a specific stance and position, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, natural gestures, and conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively; and
    19 TAC 110.22(b)(1)(C)
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2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.3/3 practiced
  1. (A) use print or digital resources to determine the meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, word origin, and part of speech;
    19 TAC 110.22(b)(2)(A)
    🔍 Word Detective: Roots and Context
  2. (B) use context such as definition, analogy, and examples to clarify the meaning of words; and
    19 TAC 110.22(b)(2)(B)
    🔍 Word Detective: Roots and Context
  3. (C) determine the meaning and usage of grade-level academic English words derived from Greek and Latin roots such as mis/mit, bene, man, vac, scrib/script, and jur/jus.
    19 TAC 110.22(b)(2)(C)
    🚀 Typing Rocket: Academic Words🧺 Word Catch: Parts of Speech and Roots🔍 Word Detective: Roots and Context

10 more units, 82 expectations, 13 activities

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How to help at home

Read the same article or chapter and compare what each of you thinks the main idea is.
Ask your child to find the sentence that proves a claim. Evidence is the whole game now.
When they write, have them read it aloud; ears catch what eyes miss.

Source: Texas Education Agency, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, 19 TAC §110.22. Curriculum text on this site is reproduced from the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills as published by the Texas Education Agency and codified in Title 19 of the Texas Administrative Code. Baccare is an independent product of Brigade Management, Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Texas Education Agency, the State Board of Education, or the Texas Secretary of State. Sources and attribution.

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Course details

  • Grade6th grade
  • SubjectReading & Writing
  • Standard19 TAC §110.22
  • Units12
  • Expectations82
  • Activities13
  • PriceFree to play
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