Text-Based Writing Grade 6

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Vendor:Evan-Moor

SKU:8134

Categories: Evan-Moor, Grade 6, Language Arts — Writing, Writing Grades 6-8

Description

SKU: 8134

Ideal for preparing your sixth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series provides scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential writing forms, such as:
· Argument
· Cause and effect
· Compare and contrast
· Explanatory
· Opinion

The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.

Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:
· a dictionary page that introduces content words
· close reading of a leveled nonfiction article
· text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding
· a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing
· a text-dependent writing prompt
· a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay

Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!
· Downloadable home–school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
· Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference.
· The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
· The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!

The sixth grade content-area topics fall under these categories:
· Biographies
· Health articles
· Science articles
· Social studies articles
· Technology articles
· Visual arts articles. From Evan-Moor.

Text-Based Writing Grade 6

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