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Curriculum Guide - 6th Grade

6th Grade - Marking Period 1

Literacy Pt. 1

Skills – Reading

  • We begin the school year with a focus on building reading habits and stamina. Students will be reading large volumes of texts throughout the year. Our main focus skills for this trimester will be:
    • Understand characters’ thoughts, words, actions, and motivation
    • Use text evidence and background information to infer a character’s personality traits and predict future actions
    • Identify the author’s purpose for writing the text (persuade, inform, entertain)
    • Describe how a text presents information sequentially
    • Identify story elements of a fiction text
    • Determine if details in a text are fact or opinion
    • Determine the theme (or moral) of a story
    • Draw conclusions and make generalizations about a text

Literacy Pt. 2

Skills – Writing

  • Our main focus skills for this trimester are:
    • revising, publishing, identifying and organizing parts of a paragraph using descriptive details, transition words and text evidence to support a claim.

Expected Reading Behaviors

  • Expected Reading Level: Instructional V(Start), X(End)
  • Reading across all genre types
  • Dedicating at least 30 minutes per day towards independent reading

Resources

 

  • Into Reading
  • iXL
  • ClassLink

Text Level Indicators (R-Z) for Parents

Math

Skills

  • To prepare for our first unit, we begin the school year with a brief review of 5th grade skills associated with fractions (GCF, LCM, comparing and ordering and all four operations). Students will work to build multiplication fact fluency throughout the year and are expected to master facts from 0 - 12. Our main focus skills for this trimester will be:
    • Understand the idea and language of ratios and rates, including ratio/rate tables and unit rates
    • Solve real word problems involving ratios and rates using proportional reasoning
    • Graphing on the coordinate plane
    • Solving area problems involving triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, regular polygons and complex figures
    • Comparing, adding and subtracting with fractions and decimals
    • Multiplying and dividing with whole numbers, decimals, fractions and mixed numbers

Resources

  • Math Expressions: Homework & Remembering
  • iXL
  • Personal Math Trainer

8 Standards of Mathematical Practice

Science

Skills

  • Students begin the year with an introduction to the scientific method and begin a unit of study on motion and forces. Students will conduct labs throughout the trimester that focus on the following concepts:
    • Describing Motion / The Laws of Motion

Resources

  • Integrated iScience/Physical iScience
  • Lab Reports via Science Teacher

Social Studies

Skills

  • Students will use informational texts, timelines and maps to learn how the discovery of agriculture represents a turning point in the development of human beings. Our main focus for the trimester will be:
    • Investigating how, why and when early humans left their point of origin and populated the world
    • Discovering what life was like for early humans and how the discovery of agriculture changed their lives

Resources

  • Putnam BOCES SS/ELA Curriculum
  • Studies Weekly
  • Map Skills for Today

Social Emotional Learning

Skills

  • Identify and distinguish nuanced emotions using the mood meter
  • Practice expressing feelings respectfully even when disagreeing
  • Strengthen listening skills through paraphrasing and asking clarifying questions
  • Practice empathy by noticing when peers may need support
  • Reflect on personal triggers, strengths, and growth areas

Resources

  • The RULER anchor tools
    • Class Charter, Mood Meter, Meta-Moment, BluePrint

Google Drive: 6th Grade

Enrichment

Skills

  • Use of iPad apps to guide learning in letter and number learning with increased independence.
  • Use of RazKids to promote early reading skills.

Resources

Computer Science & Digital Fluency

Skills

  • Students will collect data related to a real life question or need. For example, students will use a digital platform, such as Google forms, to survey the class and develop an agreed upon set of guidelines to formulate the Class Charter.

Resources

  • Google Classroom/Forms
  • Math Expressions PMTs
  • Review360
  • ClassLink

Family Engagement

  • Meet the Teacher Night 9/10/25
  • Marking Period 1 Progress Reports 10/24/25
  • American Education Week- Week of 11/17/25
  • Marking Period 1 Report Cards 12/5/25
  • Check the calendar for PTA & School Events

Enrichment

  • Enrichment for All Push In: Career Exploration and Financial Literacy
  • Project-Based Learning
  • Individualized Digital Pathways(iXL)
  • Trip to Caumsett