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Grade 6

• Composition

  • C.6.1
  • C.6.1.b
  • C.6.1.c
  • C.6.1.g
  • C.6.2
  • C.6.2.b
  • C.6.2.c
  • C.6.2.d
  • C.6.2.e
  • C.6.2.f
  • C.6.2.h
  • C.6.3
  • C.6.3.b
  • C.6.3.c
  • C.6.3.d
  • C.6.3.e
  • C.6.3.f
  • C.6.3.g
  • C.6.4
  • C.6.5
  • C.6.6
  • C.6.7

• Language

  • L.6.1.a
  • L.6.1.b
  • L.6.1.c
  • L.6.2
  • L.6.2.b
  • L.6.3
  • L.6.3.a
  • L.6.4
  • L.6.4.a
  • L.6.4.b
  • L.6.4.d
  • L.6.5
  • L.6.5.a
  • L.6.5.b
  • L.6.5.c

• Reading: Informational

  • RI.6.1
  • RI.6.2
  • RI.6.3
  • RI.6.5
  • RI.6.6
  • RI.6.7
  • RI.6.8
  • RI.6.9
  • RI.6.10

• Reading: Literature

  • RL.6.1
  • RL.6.2
  • RL.6.3
  • RL.6.5
  • RL.6.6
  • RL.6.7
  • RL.6.9
  • RL.6.10

KAS ELA Standard: RI.6.10

By the end of the year, flexibly use a variety of comprehension strategies (i.e., questioning, monitoring, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing, synthesizing, using prior knowledge, determining importance) to read, comprehend and analyze grade-level appropriate, complex informational texts independently and proficiently.

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

Gr 1-8

Zig Zag Cipher (Codes Part 3)

Let’s try a cipher that doesn’t substitute new letters or shapes. We just mix things up.

Gr 1-8

Math Game: Heaps

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) subtraction game!

Gr 1-6

Upgrade Research Questions With Depth and Complexity

Ever ask students to create research questions? Were their ideas a bit… blah? My own students had a very hard time writing questions they didn’t already know the answer to! This video is how I solved that problem: upgrade research questions with depth and complexity.

Gr 1-8

What’s In My Brain – Independent vs Dependent

These clauses are sorted into two groups. What’s the rule? No definitions given — just examples.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7

Chomp

Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.

Gr 1-8

Col – A Strategy Game

The first person to run out of regions loses in this strategy game.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: ❓ Unanswered Questions

This underutilized tool focuses students on what we don’t yet know and even what we can’t know.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 🏛️ Big Idea

Let’s get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: ⏳ Change Over Time

Want to get students thinking about how a topic has changed or might change in the future? The ⏳ Change Over Time thinking tool is just what you need!

Gr 2-8

Depth and Complexity: Patterns

Can your students spot anything that repeats? Or that has stopped repeating?

Gr 2-8

Depth and Complexity: 🌻 Details

Get kids focusing on the small, but essential, details of a topic.

Gr 1-8

Intellectual Intensity

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?

Gr 3-8