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Sixth Grade: English Language Arts Overview

This program is designed to strengthen language skills including reading, writing, listening and speaking. Students become active learners as they utilize the writing process for formal writing assignments, maintaining a journal and refining their grammar, vocabulary and critical reading skills. Literacy skills are taught through the use of novels and supplementary text. Core reading selections focus on the themes of survival and legacies. Each quarter, students will have an extending reading assignment in addition to their core reading.

Basic Text: The Daybook of Critical Reading and Writing

Core reading selections include:

The Giver
The Outsiders
Poetry

Link to Poetry Web Sites

Suggested Supplies:

2 marble compostion notebooks

1 three subject spiral notebook

2 two pocket folders

1 packet of loose leaf paper

Dictionary and Thesauras

Color Code for ELA is Red

Web Site Page

Link to Ms. Tepper's home page

Link to an author study on Eve Bunting http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/buntingeve/