Beginning the Journey

The complete Language Arts 6 curriculum guide is located at the link below, as well as the assessments that connect to each learning topic. Additional information about Language Arts 6 is located throughout the page.

2017-2018 Language Arts 6 Curriculum Guide (6.2.17)

2016-2017 ELA6 Topic Assessments

Writing Genre Focus: Narrative

In each year of the seven-year progression through Secondary Literacy, a specific genre of writing is focused upon in both practice and assessment. The current sixth grade narrative writing checklist and scoring guide (which we affectionally call a "nubric") is located at the link below.

2015-2016 ELA6 Nubric

Additional Resources

​Language Arts 6 is primarily supported by the 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt JOURNEYS textbook and supplemented by the 2012 Prentice Hall Writing Coach Grade 6 textbook. Additional resources, as compiled by DMPS teachers, are listed below.

PLC-Provided Resources

Curriculum Guide in Word Format (Version: Gamma)

SRI Information

Writing Coach Information

Useful Links (provided by teachers)

• Learnzillion (scripted video clip lessons for specific reading and writing standards)
• Youtube Video (supports teaching theme)
• newsela.com (nonfiction literacy and current events)
  
• Text Structure (gives articles from the NY Times for each of the different text structures)
• Prezi: Text Structure (definitions/examples/short clips for each type of text structure)

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