6th Grade |
English and Language Arts
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Produce the following types of writing:
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Persuasive writing
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Research essay
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Standard business letter
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Poetry
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Short stories
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Speaking and Listening:
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Group discussions
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Short speech
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Listen to read aloud texts and retell
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Read and comprehend text:
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Foundations and Frameworks units (F and F): Our reading program teaches the essential skills needed for comprehension in a unit-by-unit structure. Instruction is taught in small reading groups, utilizing visual tools, vocabulary instruction, group projects, and assessments.
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Read grade level fictional and nonfictional texts, poetry, dramas, classical mythology, short stories, biographies and speeches according to Core Knowledge with the purposes of retelling, summarizing, and interpreting the texts
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Identify and define literary terms and vocabulary:
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Define Latin and Greek root words and give examples of English words based on them
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Recognize troublesome grade level words; spell and use them correctly
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Grammar and Usage:
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Understand what a complete sentence is
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Identify different types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
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Correctly use punctuation: semi-colons, and commas in the place of conjunctions to form a compound sentence
History and Geography
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World: Greece, Rome
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Americas
Mathematics
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Develop higher-order problem-solving skills
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Numbers and numbers sense
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Ratio, percents, and proportions
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Computation: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and solving problems and equations
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Measurement: time, using the metric system
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Geometry
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Pre-Algebra
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Probability and Statistics
Science
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