← All Standards

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.W.3.c

Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

Characters’ Faults Can Also Be Strengths

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

Gr 1-8

Comparing Characters’ Bedrooms

What item’s in a character’s bedroom would reflect their deepest desires? And what if they toured a similar character’s room?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🏟️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🕰️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 👁️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🤖

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🏰

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Bobbing for Apples

What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?

Gr 2-8

A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong

Let’s go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?

Gr 1-8

Think Like An Author: Hemingway vs Dickens

What if your students rewrote Dickens in the style of Hemingway and vice versa?

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Do Narrators Have Too Much Power?

Imagine being a character in a story. Are you worried that your story’s narrator may inaccurately describe you? What if they reveal something you wanted to be kept secret? Do narrators have too much power!?

Gr 1-8

The Personalities of Rocks

What would an igneous rock be like? Would it get along with a sedimentary rock? Could they handle the hot personality of a metamorphic rock?

Gr 2-8

What Would Poetry Think About Prose?

Poetry and Prose meet at a party. What would they say to each other? How would they feel about each other’s style?

Gr 1-8

Describing Author’s Voice

What if… Edgar Allen Poe wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8

Showing A Character’s Trait

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

Gr 2-8

Historic Social Media

How would people from history have interacted online? Students will develop a conversation online between people involved in the same event from history.

Gr 1-8

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!

Gr 1-8