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IXL Spring Spotlight skill plan - Language arts 6th grade
Keep students learning with IXL's week-by-week skill plan! Find essential IXL skills for solidifying understanding below.
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Days 1-5
Day 1
  • Analyze short stories
Day 1
  • Analyze short stories
Day 2
  • Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Day 2
  • Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Day 3
  • Determine the main idea of a passage
Day 3
  • Determine the main idea of a passage
Day 4
  • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Day 4
  • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Day 5
  • Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Day 5
  • Use context to identify the meaning of a word
2
Days 6-10
Day 6
  • Determine the themes of short stories
Day 6
  • Determine the themes of short stories
Day 7
  • Compare passages for tone
Day 7
  • Compare passages for tone
Day 8
  • Read graphic organizers
Day 8
  • Read graphic organizers
Day 9
  • Identify and correct plagiarism
Day 9
  • Identify and correct plagiarism
Day 10
  • Formatting quotations and dialogue
Day 10
  • Formatting quotations and dialogue
3
Days 11-15
Day 11
  • Identify author's purpose
Day 11
  • Identify author's purpose
Day 12
  • Trace an argument
Day 12
  • Trace an argument
Day 13
  • Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Day 13
  • Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Day 14
  • Correct errors with frequently confused words
Day 14
  • Correct errors with frequently confused words
Day 15
  • Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Day 15
  • Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
4
Days 16-20
Day 16
  • Identify supporting details in literary texts
Day 16
  • Identify supporting details in literary texts
Day 17
  • Compare two texts with different genres
Day 17
  • Compare two texts with different genres
Day 18
  • Identify counterclaims
Day 18
  • Identify counterclaims
Day 19
  • Suggest appropriate revisions
Day 19
  • Suggest appropriate revisions
Day 20
  • What does the punctuation suggest?
Day 20
  • What does the punctuation suggest?
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