Evan-Moor Text-Based Writing, Grade 6 Teacher Resource

Text-Based Writing is ideal for preparing your sixth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards!

This series provides scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential writing forms, such as:

• Argument
• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast
• Explanatory
• Opinion

The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.

Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:

• a dictionary page that introduces content words
• close reading of a leveled nonfiction article
• text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding
• a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing
• a text-dependent writing prompt
• a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay

Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features:

• Downloadable home - school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
• The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
• The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!

The sixth grade content-area topics fall under these categories:

• Biographies
• Health articles
• Science articles
• Social studies articles
• Technology articles
• Visual arts articles

This resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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