Sixth Grade Language Arts

Sixth Grade Language Arts Skills

Additional Sixth Grade Language Arts Sites

Sixth Grade Standards
Note: These resources are categorized to match Jordan School District's report cards.

Reading:

• Word analysis and vocabulary
  • Synonyms
  • Alliteration
  • Eye on Idioms
    • Teaching Idioms
• Comprehension
  • NASA'a Online Books
  • Cyberguides
    CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web.
  • Improve Comprehension - Inspiration Template
  • Shakespeare Gets a Facelift - Inspiration Template
    
• Independent reading
  • Literature Circles Resource Circles
    The Literature Circles Resource Center web site is based on the premise that there is no one way to do literature circles. Literature circles look different in every classroom; they change from teacher to teacher, grade to grade, student to student. Literature circles have no recipe, they are not a specific "program", and they never look the same from year to year -- or even from day to day. The reason? True engagement with literature within a community of learners can't possibly be prescribed -- it can only be described. And that's the goal of this web site
    
• Fluency and expression
  • Reading Literacy-Books on CD - iLife Lesson

Communicating:

• Written composition
  • 6 Trait Writing Sites
  • Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan
  • Paragraph Writing Tips
  • Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
  • Instant Poetry Forms
  • 30 Days of Poetry
  • Story Development - Inspiration Template
  • Visualizing Meaning in Poetry - Inspiration Template
  • Getting into the Essay - Inspiration Template
• Writing conventions
• Spelling
• Speaking and presenting
  • Readers Theatre--How to Script, Direct and Act Out a Piece of Literature
    This site will direct the teacher in how to script, use cuts and changes,
    narrate, and act out almost any story. Suggestions and handouts are available to print out. Tips for how to teach children to team script stories are included as well.
• Listening skills
  • BookPals-Storyline Online
• Legible handwriting

Technology:

• Demonstrates keyboarding skills

Research and Library Skills:

• Finds, extracts and organizes information