Grade: 6 | Unit: 5 | |
Tasks | Literature | Informational Text |
Text: DO NOT Pre-teach Vocabulary with this text. 1. In shared read, project the text on the screen and read through with the class. 2. Print copies of the text for each student to use throughout these tasks. Australian Whale Rescue video Graphic Organizer to use while viewing video | Text: Whales Use only the first section of this article entitled Whale - STOP at Kinds of baleen whales DO NOT Pre-teach Vocabulary with this text. 1. In shared read, project the text on the screen and read through with the class. 2. Print copies of the text for each student to use throughout these tasks. | |
Recall | Standards: L.6.4b: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible). L.6.4c: . Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech. | Standards: RI.6.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
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Apply | Standards: RL.6.3: Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. | Standards: |
Performance Tasks: 1. Describe how the boy’s role changes throughout the story.
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Analyze | Standards: RL.6.5: Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. RL.6.6: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text. RL.6.7: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. | Standards: |
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Writing | Standards: W.6.3a: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. W.6.3c: Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. W.6.3d: . Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events. W.6.3e: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events | Standards: W.6.2a: Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. W.6.2b: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples. W.6.2d: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. W.6.2e: Establish and maintain a formal style. W.6.2f: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the information or explanation presented. |
Performance Tasks: Write a narrative piece, using descriptive and sensory language, to retell the story in Save the Whales, as if you were a newspaper reporter.
| Performance Tasks: Write an informative/explanatory summary based on of the information from Whales, Save The Whales, and the Australian Whale Rescue.
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