Common Core Standards
Grade 6
Language L.6.6
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
This Common Core Standard pretty much summarizes everything else the student should have learned in sixth grade. As long as sixth graders know some sixth-grade vocabulary and how to figure out the definition of new words, they'll have this standard covered.
P.S. If your students need to brush up on their spelling and grammar, send 'em over to our Grammar Learning Guides so they can hone their skills before conquering the Common Core.
Aligned Resources
- Social Studies Online: Digital Literacy Connections to Civics and History: To Speak or Not to Speak… Freely
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Pizza Problems—Too Many to Count
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Exploring Homelessness
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching Walk Two Moons: Movie Makin'
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth: The Phantom Tollbooth WebQuest
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Channeling Winn-Dixie
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Create Your Own Knowledge Bowl
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- Teaching Hatchet: Biology 101
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Operation "I Spy"
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Ode to a Static or Dynamic Character
- Teaching Number the Stars: Good to See You Again…
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Building Bridges
- Online Research and Keyword Search Techniques: Key(word)s to Your Heart: Google Search Tips
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Twilight Activity: The Cullen Cars
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Google Maps: A Modern Tool for a Modern Rat
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: T.J.'s Downward Spiral
- Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Facebook or Twitter Plot Summary
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Rats on the Run
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: The Great Lab Rat Debate
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- Teaching Hatchet: What's The Big Deal in Hatchet?: Determining the Climax
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Rules of Flag Flying (You Read That Right)
- Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth: Write to Learn
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Too Many Narrators? What's Your Point of View?
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: The Byron Files