Due to closing school, the Sixth Grade Language Arts teachers have come up with a learning plan for students. Please do your best to complete the following assignments before returning to school. We will be using IXL, Read Theory, NewsELA, and your good fit book to help support your learning. Each assignment is explained below:

Read Theory

You are expected to complete 10 Read Theory Quizzes per week.  We will continue to expect you to complete 10 Read Theories per week (Starting on Monday and ending on Sunday night.

NewsELA

You are expected to complete 3 NewsELA articles while you are out of school. All three of them have been added to our classroom page on NewsELA. You are expected to complete one article each week. The directions for the assignment have been posted with the articles. They are the directions we have been following all year.

Article in NEWSela:

Week One: How this Busy Animal Rescue Gets by with Four Full-Time Employees

Week Two: Opinion: With or Without Trophies, Youth Sports Need to be Fun

Week Three: In a “Bizzare” Biological Twist, a Mother Lion Adopts a Leopard Cub in India

IXL

You are expected to complete four IXL lessons each week. The following lessons are required. We recommend you complete them in order to help you be successful:

For help with IXL, there will be links to videos posted to Google Classroom.

K. 1-4 Writing Strategies-Week 1 (See googleclassroom for videos).

A.1-Main Idea (Week 1)

D. 1-4 Text Structure Week 2

KK. 1-2 Capitalization (Week 2)

LL. 4 Formatting (Week 3)

Good Fit Books

Continue to read your good fit book for 20 minutes/5 days per week Continue to have your parent sign your planner on Sunday nights. Please utilize the public library. Many libraries have online services to borrow e-books.

One Pager:

Your one pager Comic Strip/theme contructed response and pyramid of action are still due on April 14th. The pink sheet is the rubric for this assessment. If you have lost this sheet, please see googleclassroom for a copy.

For those of you that want to draw the comic, the templates have been posted on googleclassom. We also posted the “faces” in case you would like to use them!

VOCABULARY

Unit 9 Vocabulary Test will be posted on googleclassroom on Wednesday. WE ARE EXPECTING YOU TO BE HONEST IN COMPLETING THIS TEST WITHOUT YOU BOOK MATERIALS.

UNIT 10: Create note cards for Unit 10. Follow the format in the back of the book to create the cards. COMPLETE THE entire UNIT IN THE BOOK FOR UNIT 10 BEFORE YOU RETURN TO SCHOOL. WE WILL CHECK WHEN WE RETURN.

We are going to be monitoring your progress as the weeks progress. Please check the blog for updates!