Grade 6 - Florida English
Florida: M/J Intensive Language Arts (Credit: 0.50)M/J Intensive Language Arts (MC) continues to build on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas—reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the following ways:
Reading develops students’ reading skills, including the identification of main ideas, supporting details, and sequence; teaches students how to reach logical conclusions; shows students how to identify parts of speech in sentences, with emphasis on adjectives, pronouns, verb types; and word choice; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills through the reading of biographical and autobiographical pieces, poetry, character analyses, and the newspaper.
Writing develops students’ understanding of the key concepts of writing, providing hands-on experience with coordination, tone, word-choice, and punctuation; develops students’ vocabulary and spelling skills; gives students the opportunity to develop their abilities in writing paragraphs, speeches, short stories, short biographies, summaries, and poetry.
Speaking teaches skills that enable students to become effective speakers and communicators, weaving the skills together throughout the course.
Listening teaches effective listening comprehension skills, weaving these together throughout the lessons; builds upon students' study skills.
Florida: M/J Intensive Reading (Credit: 0.50)M/J Intensive Reading continues to build on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas—reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the following ways:
Reading develops students’ reading skills, including the identification of main ideas, supporting details, and sequence; teaches students how to reach logical conclusions; shows students how to identify parts of speech in sentences, with emphasis on adjectives, pronouns, verb types; and word choice; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills through the reading of biographical and autobiographical pieces, poetry, character analyses, and the newspaper. 
Writing develops students’ understanding of the key concepts of writing, providing hands-on experience with coordination, tone, word-choice, and punctuation; develops students’ vocabulary and spelling skills. 
Speaking teaches skills that enable students to become effective speakers and communicators, weaving the skills together throughout the course.
Listening teaches effective listening comprehension skills, weaving these together throughout the lessons; builds upon students' study skills.
Florida: M/J Language Arts 1 (Credit: 1.00)In M/J Language Arts 1, students will delve into texts that span the genres of narrative fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and informational texts to build reading, writing and thinking skills. Students will also develop their writing skills as they focus on the six traits while producing narrative, argumentative, and explanatory compositions, as well as creative pieces including poetry. The course concludes with students completing a full research report. With a strong emphasis on close reading instruction, writing and thinking activities, as well as speaking and listening tasks, this course will help students expand their understanding of literature while building 21st century skills. Multimedia and interactive elements are built into every lesson to ensure a high-level of student engagement.
Curriculum decisions for this course are guided by the Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS). These standards were developed to provide clear and consistent goals for student learning and to ensure that students have the skills they need to be successful beyond high school. In addition to defining grade-level skills, the LAFS require that students be exposed to increasingly more complex texts to which they apply those skills. In order for curriculum to align to these standards, it must be both rigorous and relevant. It must also expose students to certain critical content. In language arts, that content includes high-quality contemporary works and the classics of literature. Students will be enriched as they expand their skills and confidence in English language arts through a comprehensive study.
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