IXL skill plan | 6th grade plan for SpringBoard ELA 2021

Skill plan for SpringBoard ELA 2021 - 6th grade

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1	Unit 1 Stories of Change
Activity 1.1: Previewing the Unit		1. Find words using context
Activity 1.1: Previewing the Unit
1. Find words using context

Activity 1.2: What Makes a Narrative?		Reading strategies 1. Identify story elements 2. Read historical fiction Writing 3. Show character emotions and traits Word study 4. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Activity 1.2: What Makes a Narrative?
Reading strategies 1. Identify story elements 2. Read historical fiction Writing 3. Show character emotions and traits Word study 4. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

Activity 1.3: Planning for Independent Reading
Activity 1.3: Planning for Independent Reading


Activity 1.4: Personal Narrative: Incident-Response-Reflection		1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Match causes and effects in informational texts 3. Identify text structures
Activity 1.4: Personal Narrative: Incident-Response-Reflection
1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Match causes and effects in informational texts 3. Identify text structures

Activity 1.5: He Said, She Said: Characterization		Reading strategies 1. Draw inferences from a text 2. Compare and contrast characters Word study 3. Positive and negative connotation Grammar and usage 4. Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns 5. Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive? Writer's craft 6. Punctuating dialogue Language checkpoint 7. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 8. Use the correct subject or verb
Activity 1.5: He Said, She Said: Characterization
Reading strategies 1. Draw inferences from a text 2. Compare and contrast characters Word study 3. Positive and negative connotation Grammar and usage 4. Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns 5. Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive? Writer's craft 6. Punctuating dialogue Language checkpoint 7. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 8. Use the correct subject or verb

Activity 1.6: Analyzing Narratives		Reading strategies 1. Identify similes and metaphors 2. Identify sensory details Writer's craft 3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Word study 4. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Activity 1.6: Analyzing Narratives
Reading strategies 1. Identify similes and metaphors 2. Identify sensory details Writer's craft 3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Word study 4. Use context to identify the meaning of a word

Activity 1.7: Creating a Narrative
Activity 1.7: Creating a Narrative


Activity 1.8: Creating a Narrative: Prewriting and Drafting		Writing 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters Writer's craft 3. Choose the best transition 4. Identify subordinating conjunctions
Activity 1.8: Creating a Narrative: Prewriting and Drafting
Writing 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters Writer's craft 3. Choose the best transition 4. Identify subordinating conjunctions

Activity 1.9: Creating a Narrative: Revising		Writing 1. Suggest appropriate revisions 2. Add imagery to stories 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue Grammar and usage 4. Capitalizing titles 5. Use the correct homophone 6. Use the correct modal verb 7. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Activity 1.9: Creating a Narrative: Revising
Writing 1. Suggest appropriate revisions 2. Add imagery to stories 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue Grammar and usage 4. Capitalizing titles 5. Use the correct homophone 6. Use the correct modal verb 7. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

Embedded Assessment 1: Writing a Personal Narrative
Embedded Assessment 1: Writing a Personal Narrative


Activity 1.10: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 1.10: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 1.11: Personal Narrative vs. Short Story: Comparing Genres		1. Compare two texts with different genres
Activity 1.11: Personal Narrative vs. Short Story: Comparing Genres
1. Compare two texts with different genres

Activity 1.12: What's in a Short Story?		Reading strategies 1. Match the quotations with their themes Writing 2. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" 3. Choose between subject and object pronouns
Activity 1.12: What's in a Short Story?
Reading strategies 1. Match the quotations with their themes Writing 2. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" 3. Choose between subject and object pronouns

Activity 1.13: Plot Elements		Reading strategies 1. Read science fiction with illustrations Word study 2. Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning 3. Multiple-meaning words with pictures
Activity 1.13: Plot Elements
Reading strategies 1. Read science fiction with illustrations Word study 2. Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning 3. Multiple-meaning words with pictures

Activity 1.14: In the Beginning		Reading strategies 1. Identify supporting details in literary texts 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone 3. Make predictions about a story Writer's craft 4. Create varied sentences based on models 5. Use coordinating conjunctions
Activity 1.14: In the Beginning
Reading strategies 1. Identify supporting details in literary texts 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone 3. Make predictions about a story Writer's craft 4. Create varied sentences based on models 5. Use coordinating conjunctions

Activity 1.15: A Day of Change: Developing the Story		Word study 1. Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Grammar and usage 2. Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
Activity 1.15: A Day of Change: Developing the Story
Word study 1. Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Grammar and usage 2. Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement

Activity 1.16: In the End		Reading strategies 1. Use personification 2. Classify figures of speech Word study 3. Which definition matches the sentence? 4. Which sentence matches the definition? Grammar and usage 5. Use possessive pronouns 6. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Activity 1.16: In the End
Reading strategies 1. Use personification 2. Classify figures of speech Word study 3. Which definition matches the sentence? 4. Which sentence matches the definition? Grammar and usage 5. Use possessive pronouns 6. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

Activity 1.17: Sparking Ideas		1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
Activity 1.17: Sparking Ideas
1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects

Embedded Assessment 2: Writing a Short Story
Embedded Assessment 2: Writing a Short Story

2	Unit 2 The Power to Change
Activity 2.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 2.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 2.2: Forces of Change		Writing 1. Choose the best topic sentence Writer's craft 2. Use the perfect verb tenses 3. Simple past, present, and future tense: review
Activity 2.2: Forces of Change
Writing 1. Choose the best topic sentence Writer's craft 2. Use the perfect verb tenses 3. Simple past, present, and future tense: review

Activity 2.3: Beginning the Journey		Reading strategies 1. Read realistic fiction with illustrations Language checkpoint 2. Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Activity 2.3: Beginning the Journey
Reading strategies 1. Read realistic fiction with illustrations Language checkpoint 2. Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Activity 2.4: Planting the Seeds of Character Analysis		Reading strategies 1. Compare and contrast characters Grammar and usage 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases Writer's craft 3. Choose the best transition
Activity 2.4: Planting the Seeds of Character Analysis
Reading strategies 1. Compare and contrast characters Grammar and usage 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases Writer's craft 3. Choose the best transition

Activity 2.5: Mapping the Journey: Plot and Subplot		1. Summarize a story
Activity 2.5: Mapping the Journey: Plot and Subplot
1. Summarize a story

Activity 2.6: A Tree of One's Own: Setting		Reading strategies 1. Match the quotations with their themes Writer's craft 2. Identify coordinating conjunctions 3. Create varied sentences based on models
Activity 2.6: A Tree of One's Own: Setting
Reading strategies 1. Match the quotations with their themes Writer's craft 2. Identify coordinating conjunctions 3. Create varied sentences based on models

Activity 2.7: Questions and Discussions		Reading strategies 1. Analyze short stories Word study 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Activity 2.7: Questions and Discussions
Reading strategies 1. Analyze short stories Word study 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Activity 2.8: Diction Detectives and "Evidence"		Word study 1. Find words using context Grammar and usage 2. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 3. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? Writer's craft 4. Use personification 5. Identify similes and metaphors
Activity 2.8: Diction Detectives and "Evidence"
Word study 1. Find words using context Grammar and usage 2. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 3. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? Writer's craft 4. Use personification 5. Identify similes and metaphors

Activity 2.9: Moving Away		1. Determine the meanings of similes 2. Read poetry
Activity 2.9: Moving Away
1. Determine the meanings of similes 2. Read poetry

Activity 2.10: Reporting from Paradise Falls
Activity 2.10: Reporting from Paradise Falls


Activity 2.11: Making Connections and Visualizing Art		1. Make predictions about a story
Activity 2.11: Making Connections and Visualizing Art
1. Make predictions about a story

Activity 2.12: Stepping into the Literature Circle
Activity 2.12: Stepping into the Literature Circle


Activity 2.13: Circling the Moon: Literature Circle Discussion		1. Read realistic fiction
Activity 2.13: Circling the Moon: Literature Circle Discussion
1. Read realistic fiction

Embedded Assessment 1: Responding to Literature
Embedded Assessment 1: Responding to Literature


Activity 2.14: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 2.14: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 2.15: Explaining and Interpreting Change		1. Which is a thesis statement? 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Activity 2.15: Explaining and Interpreting Change
1. Which is a thesis statement? 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

Activity 2.16: Writing and Changing Together		Writing 1. Choose the best concluding sentence 2. Choose the synonym 3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Writer's craft 4. Use parallel structure
Activity 2.16: Writing and Changing Together
Writing 1. Choose the best concluding sentence 2. Choose the synonym 3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Writer's craft 4. Use parallel structure

Activity 2.17: Reflecting on Marley: Textual Evidence		Reading strategies 1. Read about animals 2. Find synonyms in context 3. Use dictionary entries Word study 4. Words with mis-
Activity 2.17: Reflecting on Marley: Textual Evidence
Reading strategies 1. Read about animals 2. Find synonyms in context 3. Use dictionary entries Word study 4. Words with mis-

Activity 2.18: Making Connections Through Research		1. Use key details to determine the main idea 2. Compare information from two texts
Activity 2.18: Making Connections Through Research
1. Use key details to determine the main idea 2. Compare information from two texts

Activity 2.19: Synthesizing Temple's Story
Activity 2.19: Synthesizing Temple's Story


Embedded Assessment 2: Writing an Informative Essay
Embedded Assessment 2: Writing an Informative Essay

3	Unit 3 Changing Perspectives
Activity 3.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 3.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 3.2: It Is Time to Argue and Convince		1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Distinguish facts from opinions
Activity 3.2: It Is Time to Argue and Convince
1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Distinguish facts from opinions

Activity 3.3: Identifying Claims in Arguments		1. Identify an author's statement of opinion
Activity 3.3: Identifying Claims in Arguments
1. Identify an author's statement of opinion

Activity 3.4: Creating Support with Reasons and Evidence		Reading strategies 1. Read about science and nature Writing 2. Identify supporting details in informational texts
Activity 3.4: Creating Support with Reasons and Evidence
Reading strategies 1. Read about science and nature Writing 2. Identify supporting details in informational texts

Activity 3.5: Do Your Research: Sources, Citation, and Credibility		1. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Identify and correct plagiarism
Activity 3.5: Do Your Research: Sources, Citation, and Credibility
1. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Identify and correct plagiarism

Activity 3.6: The Formality of It All: Style and Tone		Reading strategies 1. Compare passages for tone Writer's craft 2. Which sentence is more formal?
Activity 3.6: The Formality of It All: Style and Tone
Reading strategies 1. Compare passages for tone Writer's craft 2. Which sentence is more formal?

Activity 3.7: A Graphic Is Worth a Thousand Words		1. Read graphic organizers
Activity 3.7: A Graphic Is Worth a Thousand Words
1. Read graphic organizers

Activity 3.8: Debate It: Organizing and Communicating an Argument		1. Trace an argument 2. Identify counterclaims
Activity 3.8: Debate It: Organizing and Communicating an Argument
1. Trace an argument 2. Identify counterclaims

Embedded Assessment 1: Researching and Debating a Controversy
Embedded Assessment 1: Researching and Debating a Controversy


Activity 3.9: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 3.9: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 3.10: Looking at a Model Argumentative Letter		Reading strategies 1. Identify the author's purpose Writing 2. Organize information by topic 3. Choose the best topic sentence
Activity 3.10: Looking at a Model Argumentative Letter
Reading strategies 1. Identify the author's purpose Writing 2. Organize information by topic 3. Choose the best topic sentence

Activity 3.11: Facts and Feelings: Rhetorical Appeals in Argumentative Writing		Writing 1. Identify appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos in advertisements 2. Choose evidence to support a claim Language checkpoint 3. What does the punctuation suggest? 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 5. Use dashes
Activity 3.11: Facts and Feelings: Rhetorical Appeals in Argumentative Writing
Writing 1. Identify appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos in advertisements 2. Choose evidence to support a claim Language checkpoint 3. What does the punctuation suggest? 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 5. Use dashes

Activity 3.12: Citing Evidence		Writing 1. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) Writer's craft 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases
Activity 3.12: Citing Evidence
Writing 1. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) Writer's craft 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases

Activity 3.13: Playing with Persuasive Diction: Appealing to Pathos		1. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb 2. Identify adjectives 3. Describe the difference between related words
Activity 3.13: Playing with Persuasive Diction: Appealing to Pathos
1. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb 2. Identify adjectives 3. Describe the difference between related words

Activity 3.14: Writing an Introduction and Conclusion		1. Which is a thesis statement? 2. Choose the best concluding sentence 3. Correct errors in everyday use 4. Commas: review
Activity 3.14: Writing an Introduction and Conclusion
1. Which is a thesis statement? 2. Choose the best concluding sentence 3. Correct errors in everyday use 4. Commas: review

Activity 3.15: Saying Too Much or Too Little?		Writing 1. Remove redundant words or phrases 2. Remove the sentence that does not belong 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 4. Correct capitalization errors Writer's craft 5. Identify dependent and independent clauses 6. Commas with compound and complex sentences
Activity 3.15: Saying Too Much or Too Little?
Writing 1. Remove redundant words or phrases 2. Remove the sentence that does not belong 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 4. Correct capitalization errors Writer's craft 5. Identify dependent and independent clauses 6. Commas with compound and complex sentences

Activity 3.16: Preparing to Write an Argument
Activity 3.16: Preparing to Write an Argument


Embedded Assessment 2: Writing an Argumentative Letter
Embedded Assessment 2: Writing an Argumentative Letter

4	Unit 4 A Change of Scene
Activity 4.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 4.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 4.2: Playing with Rhythm and Rhyme		Reading strategies 1. Label the rhyme scheme 2. Identify elements of poetry Grammar and usage 3. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters 4. Use dashes
Activity 4.2: Playing with Rhythm and Rhyme
Reading strategies 1. Label the rhyme scheme 2. Identify elements of poetry Grammar and usage 3. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters 4. Use dashes

Activity 4.3: Performing Poetically		Reading strategies 1. Read poetry 2. Interpret figures of speech Word study 3. Describe the difference between related words
Activity 4.3: Performing Poetically
Reading strategies 1. Read poetry 2. Interpret figures of speech Word study 3. Describe the difference between related words

Activity 4.4: One Poet's Voice, Many Poetic Forms		1. Classify figures of speech
Activity 4.4: One Poet's Voice, Many Poetic Forms
1. Classify figures of speech

Activity 4.5: The Work of a Poet		Writing 1. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) Word study 3. Multiple-meaning words with pictures Grammar and usage 4. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses 5. Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?
Activity 4.5: The Work of a Poet
Writing 1. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) Word study 3. Multiple-meaning words with pictures Grammar and usage 4. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses 5. Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?

Activity 4.6: Deepening Understanding: Research		1. Identify and correct plagiarism
Activity 4.6: Deepening Understanding: Research
1. Identify and correct plagiarism

Activity 4.7: Planning to Present Research		1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Activity 4.7: Planning to Present Research
1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

Embedded Assessment 1: Researching and Presenting a Poet
Embedded Assessment 1: Researching and Presenting a Poet


Activity 4.8: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 4.8: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 4.9: Play Ball: Analyzing a Game of Life		Reading strategies 1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone 2. Determine the themes of short stories Grammar and usage 3. Identify adverbs 4. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns Writer's craft 5. Identify vague pronoun references 6. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person Language checkpoint 7. Identify subordinating conjunctions
Activity 4.9: Play Ball: Analyzing a Game of Life
Reading strategies 1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone 2. Determine the themes of short stories Grammar and usage 3. Identify adverbs 4. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns Writer's craft 5. Identify vague pronoun references 6. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person Language checkpoint 7. Identify subordinating conjunctions

Activity 4.10: Drama Games		Reading strategies 1. Compare passages for tone Word study 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Activity 4.10: Drama Games
Reading strategies 1. Compare passages for tone Word study 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

Activity 4.11: Introducing The Miracle Worker		1. Read drama
Activity 4.11: Introducing The Miracle Worker
1. Read drama

Activity 4.12: One Event, Two Genres		Reading strategies 1. Compare two texts with different genres Grammar and usage 2. Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Activity 4.12: One Event, Two Genres
Reading strategies 1. Compare two texts with different genres Grammar and usage 2. Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Activity 4.13: Civil Wars
Activity 4.13: Civil Wars


Activity 4.14: Meaning in the Silence
Activity 4.14: Meaning in the Silence


Activity 4.15: Memories, Decisions, and Compromises		1. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
Activity 4.15: Memories, Decisions, and Compromises
1. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

Embedded Assessment 2: Performing a Scene
Embedded Assessment 2: Performing a Scene

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