ELA 6

Major skills: Close reading and finding and evaluating evidence from the text.  Core reads: "Ta Na E Ka" and various paired reads. CCSS Reading Literature Standards Emphasis: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 CCSS Reading Informational Text Emphasis:  CCSS Writing Standards: 6.2 CCSS Language Stand…

Major Skills: Understanding the various structures of literary and informational texts, understanding author's point of view and how that influences a text's structure; understanding an author's use of craft; developing student's own craft and style Core reads: The Cay and various paired reads…

Major Skills: Understanding how to read and evaluate argumentative texts; understanding and identifying author's point of view and how that influences the author's claims; understanding and evaluating author's evidence that backs up his/her claims; writing effective argumentative text with adequate…

Major Skills: Understanding how to engage in short and longer-term inquiry and research activities. Understand how to embed evidence into explanatory and argumentative texts. Understand how to maintain appropriate styles and structures of text in writing. Compare and contrast different representati…