6th Grade GSE Pacing Guide

2nd 8 Weeks

Reading Literary (RL) Standards—Fictional Elements

***The first 5 weeks of this quarter will be devoted to fictional text covering the first 5 standards listed.

***Standards highlighted in this color must be taught all year. Elements will be interwoven throughout the curriculum during the entire year.

ELAGSE6RI10—By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

ELAGSE6RL10—By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature including stories, dramas, and poems, in grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end

of the range.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Practice careful and attentive reading of assigned and independent texts
  • Provide evidence from the text for all claims and inferences made
  • Read a variety of texts—styles, genres, literary periods, authors, perspectives, cultures, and subjects
  • Use annotation, note-taking—Consider keeping a notebook with relevant notes and student work
  • Fluency, self-monitoring, and self-correcting skills when reading
  • Read with rhythm, flow, and meter that sounds like everyday speech (prosody)

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Literary
  • Claim
  • Annotation
  • Genre
  • Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Informational
  • Plot
  • Evidence
  • Summary
  • Analysis
  • Prosody

ELAGSE6RI4—Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Determines the meaning of unfamiliar words by using word, sentence, and paragraph clues.
  • Uses knowledge of Greek and Latin affixes to understand unfamiliar vocabulary.
  • Identifies and interprets words with multiple meanings.
  • Uses reference skills to determine pronunciations, meanings, alternate word choices, and parts of speech of words.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of contextual vocabulary in various subjects.
  • Uses content vocabulary in writing and speaking.
  • Explores understanding of new words found in subject area texts.

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Prefixes
  • Suffixes
  • Multiple Meanings
  • Reference Skills
  • Parts of Speech
  • Context
  • Subject Level Vocabulary
  • Greek and Latin Affixes
  • Context Clues
  • Alternate Word Choices/ Synonyms/Antonyms

ELAGSE6RL4—Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Evaluate the effect of sound in poetry in sound and narrative and how the sound contributes to meaning, tone, or mood
  • Identify and know how to use the major types of figurative language
  • Identify and know how to use sound devices
  • Review and understand the basics of poetic structure and language appropriate to grade 6

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Stanza/Verse/Line
  • Literal
  • Analogy
  • Rhyme/Rhythm
  • Rhyme Scheme
  • Tone
  • Imagery
  • Symbolism
  • Diction
  • Poetry
  • Free Verse
  • Ballads
  • Lyric Poem
  • Narrative Poetry
  • Figurative Language
  • Hyperbole
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Personification
  • Sound Devices
  • Alliteration
  • Onomatopoeia

ELGSE6RL5—Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Identifies events that advance the plot and explain past or present actions of characters
  • Cite specific events that foreshadow future actions
  • Cite specific events and actions which help the development of the plot, theme, or setting

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Foreshadowing
  • Plot
  • Setting
  • Theme
  • Character
  • Cite/Defend

ELAGSE6RI5—Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Applies knowledge of common textual features (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences).
  • Applies knowledge of common graphic features (i.e., graphic organizers, diagrams, captions, illustrations, charts, tables, graphs).
  • Applies knowledge of common organizational structures and patterns (e.g., transitions, logical order, cause and effect, classification schemes).
  • Identifies and analyzes main ideas, supporting ideas, and supporting details.

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Main Ideas
  • Supporting Ideas/Details
  • Diagrams
  • Captions
  • Illustrations
  • Charts
  • Tables
  • Cause and Effect
  • Graphs
  • Logical Order
  • Chronological Order
  • Transitions

ELAGSE6RI6—Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Examines the author’s purpose in writing various types of literature
  • Cite examples from the text which illustrate the author’s purpose in writing the text

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • To Entertain
  • To Inform
  • To Persuade

***The Listening, Speaking, and Viewing Standards are taught in Reading the 2nd Quarter via the 4-H Presentation and in English/Language Arts via Research Paper.

ELAGSE6SL1—Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on Grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

  1. Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
  2. Follow rules for collegial discussions, set specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
  3. Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
  4. Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.

ELAGSE6SL2—Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.

ELAGSE6SL3—Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.

ELAGSE6SL4—Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.

ELAGSE6SL5—Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.

ELAGSE6SL6—Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.