Updated July 2014
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LearnZillion: 6th Grade ELA

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Common Core video lessons provide excellent skill support

Subjects & skills
Subjects
  • English Language Arts
Skills
  • Critical Thinking
Grades This grade range is a recommendation by Common Sense Education and not the developer/publisher.
6–7
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Many key 6th grade Common Core standards are covered.
There are structured lessons to help students hone thier narrative writing skills.
Videos features detailed, step-by-step scaffolding and instruction.

How Can I Teach with This Tool?

Though sometimes pitched as ideal for a flipped classroom, the 6th grade ELA video lessons are so specifically Common Core-aligned that they may be best as previews to your own units and assignments. There's excellent support in areas where students often struggle, such as recognizing mood and voice in a text, understanding idioms, or writing thesis statements. Many of the skills covered, moreover, are ideal not just for preparing students for Common Core assessments, but for middle school coursework in general.

Many of the lesson sets include anchor texts, leveled texts for practice, and performance assessments. You may want to begin by using the site as a planning resource before moving on to modeling how to follow the lessons with the whole class. Differentiated group work could be assigned thereafter.

Full Disclosure: LearnZillion and Common Sense Education share funders; however, those relationships do not impact Common Sense Education's editorial independence and this learning rating.

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Standards:

Key Standards Supported

Language

  • L.6.4

    Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

  • L.6.4.A

    Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

  • L.6.4.B

    Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).

  • L.6.4.C

    Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.

  • L.6.4.D

    Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).

  • L.6.5

    Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

  • L.6.5.A

    Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context.

  • L.6.5.B

    Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.

  • L.6.5.C

    Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).

  • 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.

Reading Informational Text

  • RI.6.4

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

  • RI.6.5

    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.6.6

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

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