6th Grade Lessons

Story Elements

Author's Purpose

Lesson Plan

Author's Purpose Powerpoint

Worksheet

Blogging Annotations

You may set up a blog at Blogger.com

Blogging Annotating Response

Blogging Lesson Plan

Suggested Reader Responses

Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect Worksheet

Flag Day

The Crash

The Crash Questions (also may be created in Smart Response)

SMART Notebook Lesson on Cause and Effect

Characters and Conflict

You may copy the chart to Smart Notebook 10.
Lesson

SMART Notebook Lesson on Conflict

Story Hat Smart Lesson

Descriptive Writing

Holt Elements of Literature:
Descriptive Essay Pgs. 606-611

Descriptive Writing Paper Directions

Descriptive Writing Paper

Drama Lesson

6th Grade Drama Lesson Rubric
This lesson has been successfully used with the following plays: The Magic Touch; The Ketchup Bottle; and 12 Angry Pigs, Spoof of 12 Angry Men

Drawing Conclusions

Eleven Chart

Expository Writing

Holt Elements of Literature:
Comparison-Contrast Essay pgs. 404-409

Expository Writing pgs. 518-523

Author's Purpose Expository Writing Lesson Plan

Author's Purpose Worksheet

SMART Notebook Lesson on Expository Writing How

SMART Notebook Lesson on Expository Writing Why

Fact and Opinion

Newspaper Activity

Newspaper Treasure Hunt

I Was Not Alone

SMART Notebook Lesson on Fact and Opinion

Figurative Language

Figurative Language Sort

Figurative Language Sort Worksheet

Smartboard Lessons (Please download files below)

Figurative Language Lesson 1

Figurative Language Lesson 2

Powerpoint Game

Graphic Organizer

Idioms

"The Moon" Lesson Plan

For the Rap Project, you may want to use Flipcams to record the raps.
Rap Project

Sort

Don't Take It Literally!

Don't Take It Literally worksheet

"The Crow"

"The Crow" clicker quiz

Katy Perry lyrics

Musical Figurative Language using Katy Perry song

Graphic Organizers

Stray Multi-Flow Chart

A Remarkable Happening

Graphic Organizer Figurative Language and Poetic Devices

Identify Questions to be Answered

Clicker Training

Clicker Training Questions

French Fries

French Fries Questions 1

French Fries Questions 2

Imagery

Idioms

The Crow

The Crow Smart Response quiz

Don't Take It Literally!

Don't Take It Literally questions

Moon Lesson

Internal/External Conflict

Conflict

Drama, Drama, Drama

Story Hat Smartboard Lesson

iWeb Biography Lesson Plan

Project Timeline

Biography Rough Draft

iWeb Biography ABC Organizer

iWeb Biography Fact Sort

Making Inferences

The Crow

Smart Response Download for "The Crow"

Eleven Chart

Making Inferences SMART Notebook lesson

Making Predictions

A Remarkable Happening

Predictions and Inferences Smartboard Lesson

Narrative Writing

Holt Elements of Literature:
Narrative Writing pgs. 108-113

Personal Narrative Writing pgs. 292-297

Nonfiction Literature Circle

Comparison Sheet

The Gold Cadillac and I Was Not Alone Compare/Contrast
Ratings

Journal Blog Responses

Poster Project

Poster Rubric

Reading Plans

More Reading Plans

Book Reflection

You may also want to use a Google Lit trip to implement your lesson.

Patterns of Text/Text Features

Newspaper Treasure Hunt

Persuasive Writing

Holt Elements of Literature:
Problem Solving Essay pgs. 206-211

Supporting a Position pgs. 762-767
Create the writing prompt on google docs and have students respond.
Persuasive Writing and Google Docs Template

Persuasive Writing

Persuasive Essay Rubric

Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan

Rubric Score Record