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.W.3.A
Revise writing for clarity of content, word choice, sentence variety, and transition among paragraphs.
Improving Shakespeare’s Repetition
Let’s help William Shakespeare with his use of repetition.
Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite
Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”
Writing A Thanksgiving Letter
What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?
Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche
We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.
Writing Clear Directions
Can you write directions so clear that a group of kids can put a toy together with no illustrations?