Explore a detailed 26-week 6th Grade English Language Arts curriculum featuring foundational skills, vocabulary development, narrative writing, grammar, reading comprehension strategies, and aligned with Missouri Grade 6 ELA standards.
Schedule: 4 blocks per week
Block duration: 50 minutes each
Day 1, 50 min
Topic: Introduction to 6th Grade ELA & Diagnostic Reading Assessment
Lesson Plan: Introduce course expectations, key skills (reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary). Administer a reading comprehension diagnostic to gauge reading level.
Worksheet: Reading comprehension passages with questions.
Quiz: None (diagnostic)
Subject Explorer: Completed initial reading diagnostic to assess baseline skills.
Day 2, 50 min
Topic: Parts of Speech Review: Nouns and Verbs
Lesson Plan: Review noun and verb types with examples; interactive sentence identification exercises.
Worksheet: Identify nouns and verbs in sentences and classify verb tense.
Quiz: 5 questions on identifying nouns and verbs.
Subject Explorer: Practiced identifying nouns and verbs in sentences.
Day 3, 50 min
Topic: Sentence Structure Basics
Lesson Plan: Teach simple vs. compound sentences; identify subjects and predicates.
Worksheet: Label subjects and predicates; combine simple sentences with conjunctions.
Quiz: Sentence type identification.
Subject Explorer: Worked on sentences by distinguishing subjects and predicates.
Day 4, 50 min
Topic: Reading Comprehension Strategies
Lesson Plan: Teach strategies—previewing text, contextual clues, asking questions. Apply with a short passage.
Worksheet: Guided reading questions encouraging strategies.
Quiz: Short comprehension quiz based on passage.
Subject Explorer: Applied reading comprehension strategies on a short text.
Day 5, 50 min
Topic: Vocabulary Building: Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Lesson Plan: Introduce common Greek and Latin roots plus prefixes/suffixes. Use examples to decode meanings.
Worksheet: Matching root words to meanings; build words from roots/affixes.
Quiz: 10 vocabulary matching questions.
Subject Explorer: Learned vocabulary by analyzing roots and affixes.
Day 6, 50 min
Topic: Figurative Language: Similes and Metaphors
Lesson Plan: Define similes and metaphors with examples; group activity to create own examples.
Worksheet: Identify similes and metaphors in sentences; create original examples.
Quiz: 5 questions identifying figurative language types.
Subject Explorer: Created and identified similes and metaphors.
Day 7, 50 min
Topic: Context Clues for Vocabulary
Lesson Plan: Teach using context clues to understand unfamiliar words; practice with short paragraphs.
Worksheet: Passage with underlined unknown words and multiple-choice meanings.
Quiz: Context clue vocabulary quiz.
Subject Explorer: Practiced using context clues to infer word meanings.
Day 8, 50 min
Topic: Writing Descriptive Sentences Using Figurative Language
Lesson Plan: Write sentences using similes, metaphors, and vivid adjectives; peer review.
Worksheet: Sentence writing prompts incorporating figurative language.
Quiz: None (focus on writing).
Subject Explorer: Composed descriptive sentences using figurative language.
Day 9, 50 min
Topic: Narrative Writing Introduction and Story Elements
Lesson Plan: Define narrative writing; explain plot elements (beginning, conflict, climax, resolution). Analyze a short story.
Worksheet: Label plot elements in a given story.
Quiz: Short quiz on plot element definitions.
Subject Explorer: Identified plot elements in a narrative.
Day 10, 50 min
Topic: Character Development and Setting
Lesson Plan: Discuss how authors create characters and settings; character traits vs. feelings.
Worksheet: Character trait chart and setting descriptions.
Quiz: Identify character traits from texts.
Subject Explorer: Analyzed character and setting descriptions.
Day 11, 50 min
Topic: Writing a Narrative Outline
Lesson Plan: Students plan a short narrative story using graphic organizer for plot, characters, setting.
Worksheet: Narrative story planner graphic organizer.
Quiz: None (planning stage).
Subject Explorer: Created an outline for a personal narrative story.
Day 12, 50 min
Topic: Writing the Opening Paragraph
Lesson Plan: Teach how to hook readers with interesting openings; students write introductions.
Worksheet: Sentence starters and example hooks.
Quiz: None (writing practice).
Subject Explorer: Wrote narrative opening paragraphs focusing on hooks.
Day 13, 50 min
Topic: Pronoun Types and Usage
Lesson Plan: Teach personal, possessive, reflexive pronouns; clarify antecedents.
Worksheet: Replace nouns with correct pronouns; antecedent identification.
Quiz: 10 pronoun identification questions.
Subject Explorer: Practiced identifying and using pronouns correctly.
Day 14, 50 min
Topic: Subject-Pronoun Agreement
Lesson Plan: Review subject-pronoun agreement rules; exercises correcting pronoun errors.
Worksheet: Correct the sentences with pronoun agreement mistakes.
Quiz: 5 subject-pronoun agreement questions.
Subject Explorer: Corrected pronoun agreement errors in sentences.
Day 15, 50 min
Topic: Intro to Verb Tenses (Present, Past, Future)
Lesson Plan: Explain verb tense forms; practice tense consistency in writing.
Worksheet: Verb tense identification and correction activities.
Quiz: Verb tense quiz.
Subject Explorer: Identified and applied different verb tenses.
Day 16, 50 min
Topic: Writing Practice: Pronoun and Verb Tense Application
Lesson Plan: Write short paragraphs ensuring correct pronoun use and verb tense consistency. Peer review included.
Worksheet: Writing prompts.
Quiz: None (practice-focused).
Subject Explorer: Wrote paragraphs applying pronouns and verb tenses correctly.
(This pattern continues through the 26 weeks, cycling through core ELA strands such as reading comprehension strategies (themes, main idea, inference), vocabulary development (more advanced roots and context clues), grammar (adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions), writing (expository, persuasive, poetry), speaking/listening skills, and literature studies (novels, poetry, drama), aligned with Missouri Grade 6 English Language standards.)
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