Common Core Lessons Reading Literary Text, Grade 6 - Softcover

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629381500 ISBN 13: 9781629381503

Publisher: Evan-Moor Corp, 2015

Synopsis

Help your sixth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills with activities that support Common Core rigor in the areas of Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, and Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
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Each of the 9 units provides literary text in a variety of genres such as poetry, fable, realistic fiction, and historical fiction, as well as supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including:

• Dictionary page to introduce content vocabulary and academic vocabularyÂ
• Close reading activity and close reading discussion
• Learn-and-apply activities covering vocabulary, the literature genre, and literary analysis
• Reading comprehension activity
• Literary response writing activity

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Additional teacher support includes:

• Correlations to Common Core State Standards and TEKS for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable homeâ??school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement
• Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students
• A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit

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The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections:

• Science Fiction: â??My Unusual Saturdayâ?
• Realistic Fiction: â??Two Thoughtful Gifts,â? adapted from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• Poetry: "The New Vestments" by Edward Lear
• Adventure Fiction: â??Hanging Out with the Bindi-Way Tribeâ?
• Realistic Fiction: â??Brick-and-Mortar Bookstoresâ?
• Historical Fiction: â??The Record of One Ancient Egyptian Womanâ?
• Poetry: â??The Brook,â? by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Fable: â??Notoriety Is Not Fameâ?
• Historical Fiction: â??Jerry and the Grape Boycottâ?/â?Jerryâ??s Dad and the Grape Boycottâ?

Edition details

• Publisher: Evan-Moor Corp
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1629381500
• ISBN 13: 9781629381503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Safi Teera, Matthews Lisa Vitarisi