Grade 6- READING
September
Quarter 1 Theme:
Courageous Characters
Topics:
Monitor Comprehension
a) follow your inner conversation
b) notice when you lose your way
c) read, write, and talk: think your
way through the text
Literature:
1) Homeless Bird by Gloria
Whelan (extended text-realistic
fiction)
2) “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by
Maya Angelou (poem)
3) “If” by Rudyard Kipling (poem)
4) “Willow and Ginko” by Eve
Merriam (poem)
January
Topics:
Infer Meaning continued…
d) crack open features
e) read with a question in
mind
f) wrap your mind around the
big ideas
Literature:
1) The Pigman and Me by Paul
Zindel (extended textautobiography/memoir)
2) “Alphabet” by Naomi Shihab
Nye (poem)
3) “Cynthia in the Snow” by
Gwendolyn Brooks (poem)
October
Topics:
Activate and Connect
a) follow the text signposts
b) merge your thinking with new
learning
c) connect the new to the known
Literature:
1) Homeless Bird by Gloria
Whelan (realistic fiction)
2) “Fame is a Bee” by Emily
Dickinson (poem)
3) “Marriage or Else”- Jr.
Scholastic article (non-fiction)
4) “Justice at Last: Jackie
Robinson (non-fiction)
February
Quarter 3 Theme:
Folklore: Past and Present
Topics:
Determining Importance
a) spotlight new thinking
b) record important ideas
c) target key information
d) determine what to
remember
e) distinguish your thinking
from the author’s
f) construct main ideas from
supporting details
Literature:
1) Gluskabe and Old Man Winter
November
Quarter 2 Theme:
Growing and Changing
Topics:
Questioning
a) questioning the text
b) read to discover answers
c) ask questions to expand
thinking
December
Topics:
Infer Meaning
a) infer the meaning of
unfamiliar words
b) infer with text clues
c) tackle the meaning of
language
Literature:
Literature:
1) The Pigman and Me by Paul
1) The Pigman and Me by Paul
Zindel (extended textZindel (extended textautobiography/memoir)
autobiography/memoir)
2) Eleven by Sandra Cisneros
2) The Inner Tube by Gary Soto
(fiction)
(non-fiction; narrative)
3) “Abuelito Who” by Sandra
3) “Ode to Family Photographs” by Cisneros (poem)
Gary Soto (poem)
March
April
Quarter 4 Theme:
6th Grade Reading
Reaching Out
and Literature MCAS Assessment
Topics:
Review and integration of all
Topics:
Summarize and Synthesize
reading strategies
a) read, think, and react;
paraphrasing
b) think beyond the text
c) read to get the gist
d) reread, and rethink
e) create a summary response
to extend thinking
MCAS review; Genre of test
Literature:
reading
1) Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli
(extended text- realistic fiction)
Literature:
1) Why Monkeys Live in Trees
2) The All-American Slurp by
4) You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown by Clark Glesner (drama)
May
by Joseph Bruchac
(drama; folktale)
2) The Lion and the Bulls Aesop
(fiction;fable)
3) Arachne Olivia E. Coolidge
(fiction;myth)
4) Prologue from the Whale Rider
Witi Ihimaera (fiction;myth)
5) “36 Beached Whales Die in St.
Martin”- Marvin Hokstam (nonfiction;article)
June
Topics:
Review and integration of all
reading strategies
Topics:
Review and integration of all
reading strategies
Literature:
1) Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli
(extended text- realistic fiction)
2) My Heart is in the Highlands
Jan Yolen (non-fiction; speech)
Literature:
1) Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli
(extended text- realistic fiction)
2) Reader’s Workshop- selfselected texts
3) “April Rain Song” Langston
Hughes (poem)
Julius Lester (folktale)
2) The Case of the Monkeys that
Fell from the Trees Susan E.
Quinlan (non-fiction;
informational)
3) Animaland.org (nonfiction;website)
Lensey Namioka
(non-fiction;memoir)
3)“Social Interactions 101: The
Rituals of Relating Alex J. Packer
(non-fiction; informational)