Grade 6
Grade 6 English Language Arts
9 units and 59 learning lessons. This is the outline a Grade 6 student works through in English Language Arts — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Grade 6 English Language Arts
OHM School · Grade 6
English Language Arts
9 units · 59 lessons
It opens with Fiction and Narrative Structures and closes with Grammar and Vocabulary.
All units
All units
Lessons
Unit 1 of 9
Fiction and Narrative Structures
8 lessons
Lessons
- 1Citing Evidence in Fiction
- 2Plot and Subplot
- 3How Characters Respond and Change
- 4Conflict Types
- 5Narrative Pacing
- 6How a Chapter Fits the Whole
- 7Theme and Objective Summary
- 8The Narrator's Point of View
Unit 2 of 9
Myths and Traditional Literature
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Greek Myths and Their Themes
- 2Word Choice and Tone
- 3Comparing Genres on One Theme
- 4Reading, Listening, and Watching
- 5Independent Novel Study
Unit 3 of 9
Poetry Analysis
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Poetic Structure and Form
- 2Sound Devices in Poetry
- 3Interpreting Poetic Meaning
- 4Personification and Analogy
- 5Poems and Stories on One Theme
Unit 4 of 9
Non-Fiction and Central Idea
10 lessons
Lessons
- 1Citing Evidence in Nonfiction
- 2Identifying Central Idea in Complex Text
- 3How a Key Idea Is Developed
- 4Technical and Connotative Meanings
- 5Analyzing Text Structure
- 6Author's Purpose and Point of View
- 7Information from Words and Media
- 8Tracing an Argument
- 9Comparing Two Authors' Accounts
- 10Reading Literary Nonfiction
Unit 5 of 9
Argument Essays
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Crafting a Claim
- 2Reasoning and Evidence
- 3Structuring the Argument Essay
- 4Transitions and Formal Style
- 5Concluding an Argument
Unit 6 of 9
Informative and Narrative Writing
7 lessons
Lessons
- 1Organizing Informative Writing
- 2Developing Informative Writing
- 3Writing a Personal Narrative
- 4Narrative Techniques
- 5Planning, Revising, and Editing
- 6Writing Routinely
- 7Publishing and Keyboarding
Unit 7 of 9
Research Skills
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Short Research Projects
- 2Credible Sources
- 3Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Citing
- 4Using Evidence from Texts
Unit 8 of 9
Speaking and Listening
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Collaborative Discussions
- 2Interpreting Media
- 3Evaluating a Speaker's Claims
- 4Presenting Findings
- 5Multimedia in Presentations
Unit 9 of 9
Grammar and Vocabulary
10 lessons
Lessons
- 1Pronoun Case
- 2Intensive Pronouns and Pronoun Shifts
- 3Vague Pronouns
- 4Punctuating Nonrestrictive Elements
- 5Spelling Strategies
- 6Varying Sentence Patterns
- 7Using Context Clues
- 8Greek and Latin Roots
- 9Connotation and Denotation
- 10Academic Vocabulary
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered9 units and 59 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of English Language Arts in Grade 6, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Grade 6 student would work through today.
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