Grade 6

Manchester Public Schools

Office of Equity and Partnerships

Grade 6

Reading

Writing

Math

During the school year, your child will be expected to...

Reading

Develop reading identity by choosing 'just-right books', reading with increased fluency (speed) and stamina, participating in a reading communities, and engaging in thoughtful conversations about books and stories

Learn to make connections and think about texts, self-monitoring while reading

Explore different types of texts, comparing and contrasting them

Writing

Write personal narratives and learn how to craft powerful life stories, drawing on personal experience and previous learning.

Increase writing stamina

Create personal narrative by working through the writing process (Plan, write, revise, and edit)

Fall

Math

Divide whole numbers bigger than 100 using the standard method
Add, subtract, multiply & divide decimals that are made up of 1 or more numbers before or after the decimal
Replace numbers for letter values into an expression (which has exponents) & using addition, subtraction, multiplication & division to find the number the expression is equal to
Understand that equivalent expressions are the same value but may look different
Describe data by shape, & summary of mean, mode, range, median, variability & represent that information by creating a box & whisker plot

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Identify all factors and multiples of a whole number, then compare factors of 2 or more numbers to select the largest number they have in common, this number is called the Greatest Common Factor (GCF), or compare multiples of 2 or more numbers to select the smallest number they have in common, this number is called the Least Common Multiple (LCM)

Plot and explain how different orders pairs are located in different parts of a grid. They will use this skill to find the distance between 2 or more points

Use knowledge of the distributive property and inverse operations to find a number that makes a particular equation or inequality true.

Use the understanding of equations and variables to create tables and graphs that represent the relationship between unknown values in an equation.

Winter

Reading

Develop skills as independent readers building stamina and fluency

Refine thinking about characters to infer (make conclusions from clues in the text) traits, motivations and theme

Learn about scenes, narration, rising tension, climax and falling action

Writing

Read text closely to write literary essays, generating ideas about the characters and theme

Plan, write, revise, and edit literary essays

Learn strategies to write fluently and make writing coherent, logical, insightful, and engaging

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Reading

Develop skills to read, understand and analyze informational texts

Writing

Learn to research topics and write informational essays, beginning with teen activism

Analyze sources to develop a topic and communicate about it clearly

Research, plan and write informational books embedding information to support their topic

Create digital presentations

Math

Use unit rates and ratios to solve problems
Division of Fractions - Divide 2 fractions using the standard method "Keep, Change, Flip" and visual fraction model
Use formulas to find the area of squares, rectangles, triangles and other shapes made of rectangles, squares and triangles and volume of two and three dimensional shapes

Create and use nets (what a three dimensional figures looks like if it were opened up - flat) to find the surface area of prisms

Spring

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