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August thru October<br />

Sixth Grade<br />

Focus: Creative (Narrative), Informative (Expository) p. 41<br />

WRITING APPLICATION/SIX TRAITS SSS RESOURCES<br />

IDEAS:<br />

• Generating ideas from multiple sources(e.g., prior knowledge, discussion,<br />

writer’s notebook, research materials, reliable sources) based upon teacher<br />

directed topics and personal interests<br />

• Develop main ideas using primary and secondary sources appropriate to<br />

purpose and audience and elaborate on ideas<br />

LA.6.3.1.1<br />

LA.6.3.2.1<br />

Definition of narrative DC 31<br />

Definition of expository DC 31<br />

Personal narrative M/MH Unit 1: 127A, 127F; prompt 127B;<br />

Unit 2: Narrative prompt 189<br />

Fictional narrative prompt M/MH Unit 4: 425<br />

ORGANIZATION:<br />

• Make a plan for writing that prioritizes ideas, addresses purpose, audience,<br />

min idea, and logical sequence<br />

• Use organizational strategies and tools(e.g., technology, outline, chart,<br />

table, graph, web, story map)<br />

• Create interesting leads, elaborated middles, and effective endings<br />

• Add transitional words and phrases<br />

• Connect conclusion to ending(e.g., use of the circular ending<br />

• Write in a variety of expressive forms(e.g., short plays, song lyrics, historical<br />

fiction, limericks, )<br />

Creative:<br />

• Beginning, middle, and end (B-M-E), setting, characters, characterization,<br />

plot, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution<br />

Informative:<br />

• Write in a variety of informational/Expository forms(e.g., summaries,<br />

procedures, instructions, experiments, rubrics, how-to-manuals, assembly<br />

instructions)<br />

• Write informational/Expository essays(e.g., process, description,<br />

explanation, comparison/contrast, problem/solution) that has a thesis<br />

statement, supporting details, and introductory, body, and concluding<br />

paragraphs<br />

• Write informal and formal communications that follow a formal<br />

• Write directions to unfamiliar locations using cardinal and ordinal directions,<br />

landmarks, and distances, and create an accompanying map<br />

LA.6.3.2.1<br />

LA.6.3.1.3<br />

LA.6.3.3.2<br />

LA.6.4.1.2<br />

LA.6.4.1.1<br />

LA.6.4.2.1<br />

LA.6.4.2.1<br />

LA.6.4.2.3<br />

LA.6.4.2.4<br />

LA.6.4.2.5<br />

Narrative DC 17, Expository DC 5-15<br />

Thinking Maps<br />

Writers workshop M/MH Unit 3: 363A-363F, Narrative<br />

prompt 363B<br />

Interesting lead DC 60<br />

Transition DC 22-26<br />

Literary Devices/Writing Skills, see PbP<br />

Transitions M/MH Unit 1:122A Cause/Effect 123A<br />

Write a scene from a play M/MH Unit 3: 358-359B<br />

Narrative prompts DC 34<br />

Topic sentence/Details M/MH Unit1: 65A<br />

Adding emotions DI 35<br />

Write with a clear beginning, middle, and end M/MH Unit 3:<br />

334-335B<br />

Write a Character Sketch M/MH Unit 3: 272-273B<br />

Time Order Word M/MH Unit 6: 620-621<br />

Write About A Process M/MH Unit 6: 682-683<br />

Diary entry M/MH Unit1:123A<br />

Friendly letter M/MH Unit 1: 65A<br />

See Social Studies (Holt)

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