IXL skill plan | ELA 6th grade plan for the Georgia Milestones

Skill plan for the Georgia Milestones - ELA 6th grade

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Reading and Vocabulary
Key Ideas and Details
Reading Literary Text		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Part 2 3. Analyze short stories Inference and analysis 4. Draw inferences from literary texts 5. Determine the themes of short stories Summary 6. Summarize a story
Reading Literary Text
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Part 2 3. Analyze short stories Inference and analysis 4. Draw inferences from literary texts 5. Determine the themes of short stories Summary 6. Summarize a story

Reading Informational Text		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from I Am Malala: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from I Am Malala: Part 2 3. Read about science and nature Central idea 4. Determine the central idea of a passage Text relationships 5. Compare and contrast in informational texts 6. Match causes and effects in informational texts 7. Match problems with their solutions
Reading Informational Text
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from I Am Malala: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from I Am Malala: Part 2 3. Read about science and nature Central idea 4. Determine the central idea of a passage Text relationships 5. Compare and contrast in informational texts 6. Match causes and effects in informational texts 7. Match problems with their solutions
Craft and Structure/Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Reading Literary Text		1. Read drama 2. Read poetry 3. Compare two texts with different genres
Reading Literary Text
1. Read drama 2. Read poetry 3. Compare two texts with different genres

Reading Informational Text		Text structure 1. Identify text structures Author's purpose and point of view 2. Identify the author's purpose 3. Determine the author's point of view Visual elements 4. Read graphic organizers Trace and evaluate an argument 5. Trace an argument 6. Classify logical fallacies Compare texts 7. Compare information from two texts
Reading Informational Text
Text structure 1. Identify text structures Author's purpose and point of view 2. Identify the author's purpose 3. Determine the author's point of view Visual elements 4. Read graphic organizers Trace and evaluate an argument 5. Trace an argument 6. Classify logical fallacies Compare texts 7. Compare information from two texts
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Vocabulary		Vocabulary in context 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational 5. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures Figurative language 6. Interpret figures of speech 7. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Multiple-meaning words 8. Which definition matches the sentence? Shades of meaning 9. Describe the difference between related words Greek and Latin roots 10. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Reference materials 11. Use dictionary definitions
Vocabulary
Vocabulary in context 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational 5. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures Figurative language 6. Interpret figures of speech 7. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Multiple-meaning words 8. Which definition matches the sentence? Shades of meaning 9. Describe the difference between related words Greek and Latin roots 10. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Reference materials 11. Use dictionary definitions

Writing and Language
Writing
Argumentative		Idea development 1. Choose evidence to support a claim 2. Identify supporting details in literary texts 3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Organization 4. Which is a thesis statement? Coherence 5. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Argumentative
Idea development 1. Choose evidence to support a claim 2. Identify supporting details in literary texts 3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Organization 4. Which is a thesis statement? Coherence 5. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

Informative/Explanatory		Idea development 1. Identify supporting details in informational texts 2. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational Organization 3. Choose the best topic sentence 4. Choose the best concluding sentence Coherence 5. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Informative/Explanatory
Idea development 1. Identify supporting details in informational texts 2. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational Organization 3. Choose the best topic sentence 4. Choose the best concluding sentence Coherence 5. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

Narrative		1. Add imagery to stories 2. Show character emotions and traits 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue 4. Use coordinating conjunctions 5. Put the sentences in order
Narrative
1. Add imagery to stories 2. Show character emotions and traits 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue 4. Use coordinating conjunctions 5. Put the sentences in order

Revision		1. Remove the sentence that does not belong 2. Organize information by topic 3. Suggest appropriate revisions
Revision
1. Remove the sentence that does not belong 2. Organize information by topic 3. Suggest appropriate revisions

Research		1. Identify relevant sources 2. Identify and correct plagiarism
Research
1. Identify relevant sources 2. Identify and correct plagiarism
Language
Language Usage and Conventions		Grammar 1. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 2. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person Capitalization 3. Correct capitalization errors Punctuation 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 5. Use dashes Spelling 6. Correct errors with frequently confused words
Language Usage and Conventions
Grammar 1. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 2. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person Capitalization 3. Correct capitalization errors Punctuation 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 5. Use dashes Spelling 6. Correct errors with frequently confused words

Knowledge of Language		1. Create varied sentences based on models 2. Which sentence is more formal? 3. Compare passages for tone
Knowledge of Language
1. Create varied sentences based on models 2. Which sentence is more formal? 3. Compare passages for tone

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