Grade 6
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Communication and Multimodal Literacies
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Language Usage
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Research
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Reading Informational Text
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Reading Literary Text
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Reading and Vocabulary
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Writing
Virginia ELA Standard: 6.RV.1
Vocabulary Development and Word Analysis
Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
Greekymon Studies – Round 1
What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite
Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”
Virtue or Vice?
Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.
Jabberwocky and Context Clues
Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.
Greekymon
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Common English Words From Other Languages
Bored with typical spelling studies? Let’s dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!
Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche
We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.