Description

Text-Based Writing is ideal for preparing your sixth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards

This series provides scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential writing forms, such as:

• Argument
• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast
• Explanatory
• Opinion

The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.

Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:

• a dictionary page that introduces content words
• close reading of a leveled nonfiction article
• text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding
• a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing
• a text-dependent writing prompt
• a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay

Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features:

• Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
• The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
• The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy

The sixth grade content-area topics fall under these categories:

• Biographies
• Health articles
• Science articles
• Social studies articles
• Technology articles
• Visual arts articles

This resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

About Evan-Moor
A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.