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Grade 6

• Communication & Collaboration

  • 6.CC
  • 6.CC.1
  • 6.CC.2
  • 6.CC.3
  • 6.CC.4
  • 6.CC.5
  • 6.CC.6
  • 6.CC.7
  • 6.CC.8

• Reading: Comprehension

  • 6.RC
  • 6.RC.1
  • 6.RC.2
  • 6.RC.3
  • 6.RC.4
  • 6.RC.5
  • 6.RC.6
  • 6.RC.7
  • 6.RC.8
  • 6.RC.9
  • 6.RC.10
  • 6.RC.11
  • 6.RC.12
  • 6.RC.13

• Writing

  • 6.W
  • 6.W.1
  • 6.W.1.a
  • 6.W.1.b
  • 6.W.1.d
  • 6.W.1.f
  • 6.W.2
  • 6.W.2.a
  • 6.W.2.b
  • 6.W.2.c
  • 6.W.2.d
  • 6.W.2.e
  • 6.W.2.f
  • 6.W.2.g
  • 6.W.3
  • 6.W.3.a
  • 6.W.3.b
  • 6.W.3.c
  • 6.W.3.d
  • 6.W.3.e
  • 6.W.4
  • 6.W.4.a
  • 6.W.4.b
  • 6.W.5
  • 6.W.5.a
  • 6.W.5.b
  • 6.W.5.c
  • 6.W.5.d
  • 6.W.5.e
  • 6.W.5.f
  • 6.W.6
  • 6.W.6.a
  • 6.W.6.b
  • 6.W.7
  • 6.W.7.a

Indiana ELA Standard: 6.RC.2

Determine how a theme or central idea of a work of literature is conveyed through particular details; provide a detailed, objective summary of the text. (E)

Summarize In Haiku: Power

Can your students fit a whole story into seventeen syllables? Now do it from inside a character’s head. Then once more, following the power.

Shrinking A Summary

Can your students shrink a whole story down to one sentence? Every cut reveals what is truly essential.

Identifying A Story’s Theme

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

Writing Sample: The Fall of the House of Usher

A passage from “The Fall of the House of Usher” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Elements of The Fantasy Genre

Every fantasy story has patterns hiding underneath the magic. Once your students see the elements, they’ll spot them everywhere — and use them in their own writing.

Romeo and Juliet Summary

Romeo and Juliet in just about five minutes.

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

Twelfth Night Summary

An animated summary of Shakespeare’s utterly ridiculous “Twelfth Night.”

Hamlet Summary

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Nothing could possibly go wrong with a love potion on the loose!

Writing Summaries in Haiku

Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.

Think Like An Economist

How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.

Better Stories Part 3: Literary Themes

A typical student narrative includes plot and characters but lacks a larger idea to hold it all together. This is where a lesson on themes comes in…