Reading Literary Text, Grade 6 Teacher Resource

By Evan Moor and Evan Moor Educational Publishers

Help your sixth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills

Each of the 9 units provides literary text in a variety of genres such as poetry, fable, realistic fiction, and historical fiction, as well as supporting activities that are easy to scaffold.

Activities include:

Dictionary page to introduce content vocabulary and academic vocabulary Close reading activity and close reading discussion Learn-and-apply activities covering vocabulary, the literature genre, and literary analysis Reading comprehension activity Literary response writing activity

Additional teacher support includes:

Correlations for every unit for easy reference Downloadable home - school connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit

The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections:

Science Fiction: "My Unusual Saturday" Realistic Fiction: "Two Thoughtful Gifts," adapted from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry Poetry: "The New Vestments" by Edward Lear Adventure Fiction: "Hanging Out with the Bindi-Way Tribe" Realistic Fiction: "Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores" Historical Fiction: "The Record of One Ancient Egyptian Woman" Poetry: "The Brook," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Fable: "Notoriety Is Not Fame" Historical Fiction: "Jerry and the Grape Boycott"/"Jerry's Dad and the Grape Boycott"

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

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629381500
• ISBN13: 9781629381503
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 11 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 7