Sixth Grade Curriculum

Language Arts

• Process writing
• Informative and persuasive essays
• Complete sentences and fragments
• Instruction on research
• Types of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative)
• Complete simple and compound subjects and predicates
• Simple and compound sentences
• Joining and separating sentences
• Poetry and creative writing
• Speaking and listening skills
• Vocabulary
• Spelling

Reading

• Students will take the Star reading test at the beginning and end of the first marking period and at the conclusion of every other marking period.
• Critical reading skills and interpreting literature.
• Identify author’s main points, supporting details, tone, and intended audience.
• Identify meaning words using context clues and reference materials.
• Identify and analyze author’s use of figurative language, and story elements
• Constructed-response questions and strategies to answer them.
• Distinguish between fact and opinion.
• Identify cause and effect.
• Identify root words, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms.
• Identify themes, morals, type of characters, problems, and resolutions.
• Read, analyze, and use maps, charts, and tables.
• Map stories:  identifying rising action, climax, and resolution.
• Identify, analyze, and discuss different types of text (Biographies, Autobiographies, Narratives, and Poetry).
• Conduct research, compile information, and create a presentation.

Math

·        Computations of whole numbers and decimals

·        Number sense and problem solving

·        Powers, factors, multiples, and roots

·        Fractions

·        Decimals, fractions, and percents

·        Integers

·        Statistics, line plots, and schedules

·        Graphing

·        Formulas

·        Geometry

·        Measurement

Social Studies

·        Five themes of Geography (Location, Place, Movement, Human/Environment Interactions, Regions)

·        United States and Canada

·        Pre-historic man

·        Explorers

·        China

·        Mesopotamia

·        Greece

·        Rome

·        Mayans

·        India

·        Byzantine Empire

Science

·        Scientific Method

·        Plants and Animals

·        Astronomy

·        Bacteria/Cells