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Communication Arts and Reading- Course Outline
2010-2011 6th grade Communication Arts Long Range Plans
August:
Intro activities-getting to know you, getting to know self as writer
Writing process
Paragraph writing
Word processing Skills
GUM: Parts of speech review/Subject/Predicate
September:
Fantasy Unit
Paragraph writing
GUM: Nouns/Pronouns/Antecedents
October:
Camp
News media Unit
Nonfiction/Informational text
GUM: Verbs/linking verbs /verb tense
November:
News media Unit
Nonfiction/Informational text
Persuasive essays
GUM: Appositives/quotation marks/dialogue
December:
Word study
Letter writing
GUM: Apostrophe/Prepositions/Prepositional phrases
Preposition stories
January:
Figurative Language/Poetry
-simile/metaphor, onomatopoeia/alliteration
Snowflake paragraph
GUM: adjectives
February:
Realistic Fiction Unit
-Freak the Mighty
-Short Story/Writer’s craft
Author study
GUM: contractions/homonyms
March:
Realistic Fiction Unit (finish)
spring break
test prep
April
MAP testing
Folktales
May
Shakespeare Unit
Biography
August:
Intro activities-getting to know you, getting to know self as writer
Writing process
Paragraph writing
Word processing Skills
GUM: Parts of speech review/Subject/Predicate
September:
Fantasy Unit
Paragraph writing
GUM: Nouns/Pronouns/Antecedents
October:
Camp
News media Unit
Nonfiction/Informational text
GUM: Verbs/linking verbs /verb tense
November:
News media Unit
Nonfiction/Informational text
Persuasive essays
GUM: Appositives/quotation marks/dialogue
December:
Word study
Letter writing
GUM: Apostrophe/Prepositions/Prepositional phrases
Preposition stories
January:
Figurative Language/Poetry
-simile/metaphor, onomatopoeia/alliteration
Snowflake paragraph
GUM: adjectives
February:
Realistic Fiction Unit
-Freak the Mighty
-Short Story/Writer’s craft
Author study
GUM: contractions/homonyms
March:
Realistic Fiction Unit (finish)
spring break
test prep
April
MAP testing
Folktales
May
Shakespeare Unit
Biography