Grade 6 - English
Language Arts 600 (Credit: 1.00)In Language Arts 600, 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 highâ€level of student engagement.
Language Arts 600 Fundamentals (Credit: 1.00)Language Arts 600 Fundamentals 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,
sequence, and facts and opinions; introduces more advanced reading skills, showing students how to analyze
propaganda, make inferences, and determine the author’s authority; shows students how to identify parts of
speech in sentences, with emphasis on kinds and uses of nouns, pronouns, and verb tenses; develops
students’ capacities for identifying basic elements of narrative prose; enhances students’ abilities for reading
newspaper articles and informative nonfiction; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills
through the reading of short stories, nonfiction pieces, and poetry.
ï‚· Writing develops students’ understanding of sentence structure, providing handsâ€on experience with
subjectâ€verb agreement, participles, and phrases; emphasizes parts of speech and their roles, including
adjectives, nouns, and verbs; familiarizes students with roots, affixes, and basic word relationships, including
homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms; develops students’ vocabulary and spelling skills; gives students the
opportunity to develop their abilities in writing paragraphs, business letters, poetry, and short stories; guides
students through planning, organizing, writing, and revising a report.
Spelling 600 (Credit: 0.50)
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