SCOPE AND SEQUENCE WITH TAKS/TEKS CORRELATIONS
SIXTH GRADE
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A. Information Acquisition |
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| Library Instructional Collaboration |
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TAKS Objectives |
TEKS |
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6.A.1 Locate and use important areas of the Library (circulation area, card catalog/OPAC, fiction, non-fiction, biography, reference and periodical). |
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Tech Apps:
126.12.5B
Demonstrate the ability to access, operate, and manipulate information for secondary storage and remote devices including CD/ROM/laser discs and on-line catalogs. |
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6.A.2 Understand and use the Dewey Decimal System to locate materials. |
Dewey and the Decimals by Paige Taylor. 1579500501 Stretchy Library Lessons by Pat Miller 1579500838 Dewey Decimal Apron Kit, KidsClick! Dewey |
TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Math: 111.22.11A
Identify and apply mathematics to everyday experiences. |
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6.A.3 Demonstrate appropriate behaviors for locating, checking out, returning, and caring for library materials according to district procedures. |
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Social Studies:
113.22.13A
Describe roles and responsibilities of citizens. |
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6.A.4 Demonstrate an understanding that the card or on-line catalog is an index to the library collection and use the catalog information to locate materials in the library media center. |
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts:
110.22.13C
Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources, to locate information relevant to research questions. Tech Apps: 126.12.4A Use strategies to locate and acquire desired information. |
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6.A.5 Demonstrate a working knowledge of library terminology, such as renew, hold, on-line resources and on-line catalog. |
TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Tech Apps:
126.12.4A
Use strategies to locate and acquire desired information. Tech Apps: 126.12.4B Apply appropriate electronic search strategies in the acquisition of information including keyword and Boolean search strategies. |
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6.A.6 The student uses a variety of print and non-print sources in the problem solving process, including dictionaries, nonfiction books, thesauri, encyclopedias, experts, CD-ROMs, and Internet resources. |
TAKS Reading #2: The student will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts:
110.22.6C
Locate the meanings, pronunciations, and derivations of unfamiliar words using dictionaries, glossaries and other sources. Language Arts: 110.22.13C Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources, to locate information relevant to research questions. Tech Apps: 126.12.4A Use strategies to locate and acquire desired information. |
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6.A.7 The student is encouraged to use public libraries, university libraries, museums and community resources in school assignments. |
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TAKS Reading #4: The student applies critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Social Studies: 113.22.16A
Identify institutions basic to all societies. |
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6.A.8 The student understands that bilingual books and Spanish books are part of the library collection when applicable. |
§ Bilingual and Spanish Activities
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
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6.A.9 The student analyzes information by distinguishing fact from opinion, determining cause and effect, and predicting outcomes to determine usefulness to problem solution. |
§ Persuasive Writing – Fact and Opinion
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TAKS Reading #4: The student applies critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.2C
Distinguish between the speaker’s opinion and verifiable fact. Language Arts: 110.22.10J Distinguish fact from opinion in various texts. Language Arts: 110.22.10H Draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations. Social Studies: 113.22.21B Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions. |
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6.A.10 Acquire library terminology, such as renew, reserve, online resources and online catalog |
Refer to HISD Librarian’s Handbook |
TAKS Reading #1: Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Math: 111.5.1B- Use place value to read, write, compare, and order decimals. 111.5.14A- Identify the mathematics in every day situations. |
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6.A.11 Use the online catalog and keyword, author, title, and subject searches to locate specific materials |
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TAKS Reading #4: The student applies critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.13C-use multiple resources, both print and non-print |
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6.A.12 Understand and use the Dewey Decimal System to locate materials |
DDS
Matching Game
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TAKS Reading #1: Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts |
Math: 6.11A- make observations and connections |
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6.A.13 Identify and use the parts of a book to gather information, including glossary, copyright, index, table of contents, publisher, guide words, and title page |
Libeary Skills: (Grades Four through Grade Six) by The School Librarians of Chambersburg, PA 0513020446
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TAKS Reading #3: Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.13C use multiple resources, both print and non-print |
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6.A.14 Consider and list possible print and nonprint sources for use in problem solving process, including dictionaries, nonfiction books, thesauri, encyclopedias, experts, atlases, magazines, newspapers, timelines, almanacs, CD-ROMs, and Internet resources |
§ Vocabulary – Unfolding Meaning (Thesaurus) § A Million Dollar Trip by Atlas § Using Sources of Information How to Use an Almanac to Learn About the States |
TAKS Reading #4: The student will apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.13C -use multiple resources, both print and non-print, 6.13 D - interpret and use graphic sources |
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6.A.15 Analyze information by distinguishing fact from opinion, determining cause and effect, comparing and contrasting sources, and predicting outcomes
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Cause and Effect Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell; Why the Chicken Crossed the Road by David Macauley Predicting Outcomes Giggle Giggle Quack by Doreen Cronin; The Frog Principal by Stephanie Calmenson; Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett; Bark, George by Jules Feiffer |
TAKS Reading #4: The student will apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.10E -cause and effect, 6.10L represent text information in different ways, 6.10J -distinguish between fact and opinion ; Social Studies: 6.21B - |
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B. Reading Literacy |
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Library Instructional Collaboration |
Resources |
TAKS Objectives |
TEKS |
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6.B.1 Listen attentively, critically and purposefully to stories, plays, and poems read aloud for enjoyment and to gain information. |
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student demonstrates a
basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.
TAKS Reading #110.6: The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts |
Language Arts: 110.22.1A
Determine the purposes for listening such as to gain information, to solve problems, or to enjoy and appreciate. Language Arts: 110.22.9A Develop vocabulary by listening to selections read aloud. |
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6.B.2 Read or listen to a variety of multicultural/multiethnic materials. |
TAKS Reading #2:
The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.4A
Connect his/her own experiences, information, insights and ideas with experiences of others through speaking and listening. Language Arts: 110.22.4B Compare oral traditions across regions and cultures. Language Arts: 110.22.4C Identify how language use such as labels and sayings reflects regions and cultures. Language Arts: 110.22.14A Compare events with his/her and other reader’s experiences. Language Arts: 110.22.14B Determine distinctive and common characteristics of cultures through wide reading. Language Arts: 110.22.14C Articulate and discuss themes and connections that cross cultures. |
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6.B.3 Read regularly in independent-level materials. |
TAKS Reading #110.3:
The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.22.7D Adjust reading rate based on purposes for reading. Language Arts: 110.22.7F Read silently with increasing ease for longer periods. |
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6.B.4 Select, read and respond to materials from a variety of literary genre for pleasure reading and/or to acquire information, such as non-fiction, fiction, poetry, magazines, newspapers, and electronic texts. |
§ Lighthouses (fiction and nonfiction)
Web Lessons: |
TAKS Reading #110.3:
The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.22.8A Read classic and contemporary works. Language Arts: 110.22.8B Select varied sources such as plays, anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure. Language Arts: 110.22.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. Language Arts: 110.22.10B Establish and adjust purposes for reading such as reading to find out, to understand, to interpret to enjoy and to solve problems. Language Arts: 110.22.12B Recognize the distinguishing features of genre, including biography, historical fiction, informational texts, and poetry. |
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6.B.5 Explore works from award lists such as Bluebonnet, Newbery , Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King titles, and recognize the significance of these awards. |
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TAKS Reading # 1:
The student demonstrates a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.22.8A Read classic and contemporary works. Language Arts: 110.22.8B Select varied sources such as plays, anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure. Language Arts: 110.22.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. |
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6.B.6 Read or listen to, and understand, a variety of literary forms such as fiction, poetry, myths, fables, tall tales, folktales, plays, informational books, biographies and autobiographies. |
§ Fables |
TAKS Reading #110.3:
The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.22.8A Read classic and contemporary works. Language Arts: 110.22.8B Select varied sources such as plays, anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure. Language Arts: 110.22.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. Language Arts: 110.22.12A Identify the purposes of different types of texts such as to inform, influence, express, or entertain. Language Arts: 110.22.12B Recognize the distinguishing features of genre, including biography, historical fiction, informational texts, and poetry. Language Arts: 110.22.12E Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies and autobiographies. Science: 112.22.3E Connect Grade 6 science concepts with the history of science and contributions of scientists. |
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6.B.7 Understand literary terms such as author, illustrator, fact, fantasy, fiction, and nonfiction. |
§ Harry Potter Fantasy Dream Cast
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TAKS Reading #110.3: The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.12D
Understand and identify literary terms such as, playwright, theater, stage, act, dialogue, analogy and scene across a variety of literary forms. Language Arts: 110.22.12E Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies and autobiographies. |
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6.B.8 The student distinguishes and appreciates the styles of various authors and illustrators. |
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AN AUTHOR, ILLUSTRATOR, AND POET |
TAKS Reading #110.3: The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.22.12H Describe how the author’s perspective or point of view affects the text. Language Arts: 110.22.12I Analyze ways authors organize and present ideas such as through cause/effect, compare/contrast, inductively, deductively or chronologically. Language Arts: 110.22.12J Recognize and interpret literary devices such as flashback, foreshadowing, and symbolism. Language Arts: 110.22.22A Describe how illustrators’ choice of style, elements, and media help to represent or extend the text’s meaning. |
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TAKS Reading #110.3: The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.
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Language Arts: 110.22.8A
Read classic and contemporary works. Language Arts: 110.22.10I Find similarities and differences across texts such as in treatment, scope or organization. Language Arts: 110.22.11D Connect, compare, and contrast ideas, themes, and issues across text. Language Arts: 110.22.12C Compare communications in different forms such as contrasting a dramatic performance with a print version of the same story or comparing story variants. Social Studies: 113.22.18D Identify examples of art, music, and literature that have transcended the boundaries of societies and convey universal themes. |
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6.B.10 The student participates in various reading incentive programs. |
§ Accelerated Reading
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.22.7F Read silently with increasing ease for longer periods. Language Arts: 110.22.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. |
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6.B.11 The student demonstrates the correlation between the classroom reading program and library experiences. |
Web Lesson:
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.22.7B Read regularly in instructional-level materials that are challenging but manageable. Language Arts: 110.22.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. |
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6.B.12 The student identifies and uses periodicals for entertainment. |
TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.8C
Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. Language Arts: 110.22.12A Identify the purposes of different types of texts such as to inform, influence, express, or entertain. Language Arts: 110.22.12B Recognize the distinguishing features of genre, including biography, historical fiction, informational texts, and poetry. |
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6.B.13 The student distinguishes between reality and fantasy. |
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Language Arts: 110.22.12E
Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies and autobiographies. |
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6.B.14 The student uses comprehension skills to retell or summarize information. |
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TAKS Reading # 1:
The student demonstrates a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. TAKS Reading #110.3: The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.10E
Use the text’s structure or progression of ideas such as cause and effect or chronology to locate and recall information. Language Arts: 110.22.10G Use paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform, or organize ideas. Language Arts: 110.22.10H Draw inferences from conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience. Language Arts: 110.22.20D Summarize and organize ideas gained from multiple sources in useful ways such as outlines, conceptual maps, learning logs and time lines. Social Studies: 113.22.21B Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions. |
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6.B.15 The student becomes familiar with feelings and emotions of characters. |
TAKS Reading #2:
The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.12F
Analyze characters, including their traits, motivations, conflicts, points of view, relationships, and changes they undergo. Language Arts: 110.22.12K Recognize how style, tone, and mood contribute to the effect of the text. |
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6.B.16 The student identifies the setting of a story. |
TAKS Reading #2:
The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.12G
Recognize and analyze story plot, setting, and problem resolution. |
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6.B.17 The student demonstrates information literacy by recalling facts and details from reading fiction and non-fiction literature. |
TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.10F
Determine a text’s main idea (or major ideas) and how those ideas are supported with details. |
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6.B.18 The student identifies and recognizes conflict in stories. |
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TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.12F
Analyze characters, including their traits, motivations, conflicts, points of view, relationships, and changes they undergo. Language Arts: 110.22.12G Recognize and analyze story plot, setting, and problem resolution. |
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6.B.19 The student uses comprehensive skills to draw conclusions from whatever is read. |
Web Lesson: |
TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.10C
Monitor his/her own comprehension and make modifications when understanding breaks down such as rereading a portion aloud, using reference aids, searching for clues, and asking questions. Language Arts: 110.22.10H Draw inferences from conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience. Language Arts: 110.22.12F Analyze characters, including their traits, motivations, conflicts, points of view, relationships, and changes they undergo. Social Studies: 113.22.21B Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions. |
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6.B.20 The student develops vocabulary through listening and reading. |
§ Holes By Louis Sachar (Collaboration Activity)
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TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.22.9A
Develop vocabulary by listening to selections read aloud. Language Arts: 110.22.9B Draw on experiences to bring meanings to words in context such as interpreting idioms, multiple-meaning words, and analogies. |
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6.B.21 Listen actively, critically, and purposefully to gain information, to solve problems, and for enjoyment
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See Librarian for books to support you classroom and unit needs. |
TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.1A - determine purpose |
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6.B.22 Read regularly in independent-level materials
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See Librarian for books to support your classroom and unit needs. |
TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.7A - read independently |
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6.B.23 Explore culturally diverse works of various authors and illustrators |
See Librarian to help select books and materials to support your author/illustrator study. |
TAKS Reading #2: The student will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.8B - select varied sources |
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6.B.24 Self-select materials from a variety of literary genre for pleasure reading and/or to acquire information, such as nonfiction, fiction, anthologies, poetry, magazines, newspapers, and electronic texts |
Library Orientation |
TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.8 - read a variety of sources |
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6.B.25 Explore works from award lists, including Bluebonnet, Newbery, and Coretta Scott King titles, and recognize the significance of these awards
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Newbery and Bluebonnet posters
Book Talk, Bluebonnet Video or PowerPoint.
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. TAKS Reading #2: The student will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts |
Language Arts: 6.8A - read classic and contemporary selections |
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6.B.26 Read or listen to, and understand, literary forms such as fiction, poetry, myths, fables, tall tales, folktales, plays, informational books, biographies, and autobiographies
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Children's Literature: Promotion, Use, and Teaching in the School Media Center ed. by H. Thomas Walker 0874366666 Cinderella Around the World Writing Webquest T-Chart (Compare and contrast two types of genre. Venn Diagram (Compare and contrast genre) |
TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 6.8B - read various selections and sources, 6.12E - understand literary forms |
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6.B.27 Recognize the distinguishing features and purpose of literary genre, including biography, autobiography, historical fiction, informational text, poetry, mystery, science fiction, and fantasy. Lesson -T-Chart (Compare and contrast two types of genre) Venn Diagram (Compare and contrast genre) |
Learning about Books and Libraries, A Gold Mine of Games by Carol K. Lee. 157950051X Science Fiction Writing Activities T-Chart (Compare and contrast two types of genre) Venn Diagram (Compare and contrast genre) |
TAKS Reading | |