TEACHER ELEMENTS

STUDENT ELEMENTS

GRADE 6

GRADE 6

THE TEACHER SHALL:

THE STUDENT SHOULD:

REVIEW, RETEACH, AND REASSESS PAST CONCEPTS.

NEW CONCEPTS

NEW CONCEPTS

Teach students to revise own paragraph writing and that of peers (e.g., revising to clarify purpose, for audience, for clarity, for coherence, for unity, to clarify meaning with word choice, for content and organization, for economy, to improve style).

Revise own paragraph writing and that of peers (e.g., revising to clarify purpose, for audience, for clarity, for coherence, for unity, to clarify meaning with word choice, for content and organization, for economy, to improve style.)

Provide multiple opportunities for students to write various one-paragraph papers (e.g., invitations, friendly letters, thank-you notes, business letters, envelopes, book reports, research reports, journals, poems, plays, messages/lists, editorials, summaries).

Write various one-paragraph papers (e.g., invitations, friendly letters, thank-you notes, business letters, envelopes, book reports, research reports, journals, poems, plays, messages/lists, editorials, summaries).

Show students how to write a more sophisticated sounding paragraph by using combining techniques (e.g., combining sentences with compound subjects, compound predicates, compound sentences, complex sentences; expanding subject, expanding predicate; with words in a series, with appositives, with additions of adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases).

Write a more sophisticated sounding paragraph by using combining techniques (e.g., combining sentences with compound subjects, compound predicates, compound sentences, complex sentences; expanding subject, expanding predicate; with words in a series, with appositives, with additions of adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases).