6th Grade Curriculum Guide

Teachers will utilize the comprehensive Common Core State Standards (CCSS) when providing instruction. The following are essential skills that the district has determined are critical for mastery as students progress from one grade level to the next. Each learning skill has a direct correlation to one or more of the CCSS.

In English Language Arts, sixth-grade students will:

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. (RL.6.1)

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. (RL.6.2)

Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. (RL.6.3)

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. (RL.6.4)

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. (RL.6.5)

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. (RI.6.1)

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. (RI.6.2)

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text. (RI.6.3)

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings. (RI.6.4)

Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas. (RI.6.5)

Integrate information presented in different media or formats as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. (RI.6.7)

Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. (RI.6.8)

Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. (W.6.1)

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. (W.6.2)

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. (W.6.3)

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.  (W.6.4)

Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources. (W.6.8)

Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. (W.6.9)

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. (W.6.10)

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. (SL.6.1)

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. (SL.6.4) In Mathematics, sixth-grade students will: 

Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents. (EE.A.1)

Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers. (EE.A.2)

Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions. (EE.A.3/EE.A.4)

Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true. (EE.B.5)

Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes. (G.A.1)

Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths by packing it with unit cubes of the appropriate unit fraction edge lengths, and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths of the prism. (G.A.2)

Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. (RP.A.1)

Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. (RP.A.2)

Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations. (RP.A.3)

Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. (SP.A.1)

Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape. (SP.A.2)

Recognize that a measure of center for a numerical data set summarizes all of its values with a single number, while a measure of variation describes how its values vary with a single number. (SP.A.3)

Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots. (SP.B.4)

Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation. (NS.B.3)

Find the greatest common factor of two whole numbers less than or equal to 100 and the least common multiple of two whole numbers less than or equal to 12. (NS.B.4)

Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values. (NS.C.5)

Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. (NS.C.6)

Understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers. (NS.C.7)