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6th Grade - Reading Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details:
6.RI.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Web Games
  • Bio-Cube
  • Persuasion Map
  • Drawing Inferences
  • Story Map Interactive
  • ReadWriteThink Printing Press
  • Interactive Venn Diagram
  • Inference Riddles ​ 
  • Literary Elements Map
  • Truth in Advertising ​
Notebook Files:
  • Draw Inferences and Conclusions w/b
  • Inference Notes  w/b
  • Making Interences - 1
  • Making Interences - 2
  • Making Interences 3
  • Common Proverbs w/b
  • Proverbs from around the World w/b
  • KWL Graphic Organizer w/b
  • Clunks and Clues Graphic Organizer w/b
  • Fishbone map templatew/b
  • ​When Am I? - w/b
  • Where Am I? - w/b
  • Who Am I? - w/b


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6.RI.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Web Games
  • Bio-Cube
  • Persuasion Map
  • Strategies for Better Reading
  • Fractured Fairy Tales
  • Venn Diagram
  • Truth in Advertising
Notebook Files:

  • Summarizing
  • Who Should Supply School Supplies?
  • Draw Inferences and Conclusions w/b
  • Drawing Inferences  w/b
  • Making Inferences - 1 w/b
  • Making Inferences  - 2 w/b
  • Making Infrences 3 - w/b
  • Making Inferences Using Pictures - w/b 
  • Common Myths about the "First Thanksgiving"  w/b
  • When Am I? - w/b
  • Where Am I? - w/b 
  • Who Am I? - w/b
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6.RI.3
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
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  • Bio-Cube
  • Persuasion Map
  • Story Map Interactive: 
  • ReadWriteThink Printing Press
  • Interactive Venn Diagram
  • Inference Riddles
  • Story Mapping
  • Letter Generator
  • Fishbone map template
  • ​Strategies for Better Reading 
Notebook Files:
  • Inference Notes w\b
  • Making Inferences 1- w/b
  • Making Inferences - 2 w/b
  • Making Inferences 3 - w/b 
  • Making Inferences Using Pictures w/b
  • Common Proverbs w/b
    Proverbs from around the World: w/b




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Craft and Structure:
6.RI.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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  • Academic Vocabulary
  • Analogy Lesson ​
  • Analogy quiz 1
  • Analogy quiz 2 
  • Bio-Cube
  • Dictionary of Symbolism 
  • Fact Monster - Analogy of the Day
  • Homographs 
  • Homonyms Exercises
  • Story Map Interactive: 
    ReadWriteThink Printing Press
    Interactive Venn Diagram: 
  • Matching Homonym Game
  • Matching Synonyms ​
  • Puzz.com Index of Analogies
  • Self-Study Homonym Quizzes
  • Synonym Toast
  • Synonym.com
  • Synonymical: The Synonym Game
  • Synonyms Exercises 
  • Synonyms Game 
  • Word Confusion ​
Notebook Files:
  • Commonly Misused Words and Phrases w/b
  • Organic Gardening Research Project: w/b
  • Making Inferences 2 
  • Multiple Meaning Words w/b
  • Multiple Meaning Zig Zags activity 1 doc
  • Multiple Meaning Zig Zags activity 2 - doc
  • Synonym and Antonym Word Encounters - Level 3 Words
  • Synonym and Antonym Word Encounters - Level 2 Words
  • Synonym and Antonym Word Encounters - Level 1 Words


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6.RI.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
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  • Paragraph Organization
  • Paragraph Writing Exercises ​
  • Writing Resumes for Fictional Characters


Notebook Files:
  • Write a 5-Paragraph Essay - How to Write a 5 Paragraph Essay
  • Write a 5-Paragraph Essay - How to Provide Transition Between Paragraphs
  • Write a 5-Paragraph Essay - How to Develop a Cohesive Paragraph
  • Write a 5-Paragraph Essay - Effective Essay Writing Guides for Paragraph Structure
  • Write a 5-Paragraph Essay - Why Does a Paragraph Need a Support Sentence?
  • Write a 5-Paragraph Essay - Index of a large number of articles
  • Writing a Paragraph 
  • Purdue OWL's Resume Workshop
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6.RI.6
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
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  • Author's Purpose 1
  • Author's Purpose 2

Notebook Files:


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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
6.RI.7
Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
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A Creator's Rights - wb
Identifying High Quality Sites w/b
My Media w/b
​Which Me should I be? w/b
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6.RI.8
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
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Notebook Files:

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6.RI.9
Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
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  • Story Map Interactive
  • ReadWriteThink Printing Press
  • Interactive Venn Diagram
Notebook Files:


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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
6.RI.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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Notebook Files:
  • Can Animals Think?  w/b
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