Sixth Grade Learning Objectives:

Language Arts

​Reading:

 The students will be able to (TSWBAT):

• Understand the meaning of the prefixes: re, pre, de, co, extra, over, trans, un, dis, mis, non, im, and in.

• Understand the meaning of suffixes able/ible, er/or, less, and ous/ful

• Understand and use synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms (homophones and homographs) in context

• Use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, multiple meaning words, and compound words

• Infer meaning and draw conclusions from explicitly state text and implied textual information

• Identify author’s purpose: inform, persuade, entertain, and explain

• Compare and contrast information from multiple sources

• Determine cause and effect from written text

• Identify and describe story elements; character, setting, and plot (conflict/resolution)

• Identify simile and metaphors (basic and extended) and personification.

• Identify alliteration, idiom, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia

• Determine main idea from written text

• Sequence; determine events in correct order

• Identify/determine persuasive elements: of bias, assumption, validity of source and stereotyping

• Determine if a statement is true, false, fact, opinion or inference.

• Use reference skills: finding information in the table of contents, glossary, and index, and understanding text organization

 

Language:

The students will be able to (TSWBAT):

• Generate a main idea appropriate to the type of writing

• Select organizational strategies appropriate for writing

• Apply and appropriate writing format for purpose and audience

• Revise draft for meaning, clarity, and effective sequencing

• Add details to more effectively accomplish the purpose of writing

• Apply and add transition words to clarify sequence.

• Rearrange words, sentences, and paragraphs to enhance writing style

• Edit the draft using an editing checklist with common editing marks

• Spell correctly grad 6 high-frequency words

• Apply spelling rules appropriate to grade level and spell accurately

• Identify complex sentences with subject and verb agreement

• Use correctly: future verb tenses, adjectives, personal pronouns, conjunctions, adverbs

• Apply capitalization correctly in writing

• Use quotation marks and commas to punctuate dialogue

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Math

The students will be able to (TSWBAT): 

• Order and Compare decimals through thousandths

• Add and subtract decimals with horizontal and vertical alignment

• Multiply whole numbers and decimals with 2-digit multipliers with horizontal and vertical alignment

• Organize and use data in tables, graphs, and charts in order to answer questions

• Solve everyday story problems

• Use order of operations with and without exponents

• Divide decimals with the decimal point in the dividend, divisor, and/or both

• Determine GCF/LCM given a set of whole numbers

• Identify fractions in lowest terms and find equivalency

• Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and mixed numbers to improper fractions

• Convert decimals, fractions, and percents

• Add and subtract with like and unlike denominators simplifying and regrouping as necessary

• Measure with customary and metric units

• Understand and use proportion and ratios

• Determine probability of certain outcomes

• Estimate with whole numbers and decimals

• Calculate perimeter, area, and volume of various shapes