Sixth Grade

Grade 6 Math Curriculum Framework

  • Understand ratios and rates and use this understanding to solve problems involving proportional relationships (e.g., unit pricing, constant speed, percent of a quantity)

  • Use knowledge of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions

  • Deepen understanding of positive and negative numbers and their relationship to one another on the number line

  • Apply mathematical properties to write equivalent expressions (e.g., 24x + 18y is equivalent to 6(4x + 3y)

  • Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents

  • Understand how to solve inequalities and equations with one variable

  • Solve real-world problems involving area, surface area, and volume

  • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

  • Reason abstractly and quantitatively

  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

  • Model with mathematics

  • Use appropriate tools strategically

  • Attend to precision

  • Look for and make use of structure

  • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

Grade 6 Literacy Curriculum Framework

  • Students will build reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills using grade 6 complex texts and other media formats

  • Analyze text explicitly using elaborate support and inferential observations

  • Determine the theme and summarize the text, omitting personal opinions and judgments

  • Determine the connotative and figurative meanings of words/phrases and analyze the impact of vocabulary on story elements, perspective, theme, and tone of text

  • Compare and contrast relevant claims in text and across genres, topics, and other media formats

  • Plan, write, revise, and share argumentative, informative and narrative pieces in a clear, organize manner using relevant evidence, content, domain-specific vocabulary, descriptive details and a conclusion

  • Use conventions of standard English grammar with particular attention to pronouns when writing or speaking

  • Clarify meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words/phrases with a range of strategies including the use of Greek/Latin roots or affixes, word relationships, and nuances

  • Engage in a range of collaborative discussions on various issues, topics, and texts with diverse partners

  • Present ideas and claims to an audience using facts, details, adaptive speaking skills, and multimedia components

Writing

  • Write an introduction for an expository essay that clearly previews the main points.

  • Provide detailed support for all Ideas in my writing.

  • Stay on topic throughout writing.

  • Write a conclusion that clearly restates main points.

  • Write a narrative essay that introduces characters, setting, and problem.

  • Sequence events in order that makes sense in narrative essay.

  • Use dialogue and description to develop events in narrative essay.

  • Have a conclusion that wraps up the events in narrative essay.

  • Use appropriate transitions in writing.

  • Plan, draft, revise, and edit essays.

  • Write a research report that includes information from different sources.

Language

  • Use the proper verb tense (i.e., past, present, perfect) in my writing.

  • Recognize and correct when I have made a mistake in verb tense.

  • Use commas appropriately (in a series, with introductory clauses, direct address).

  • Write the titles of works using the correct method (underlining, quotation marks, italics)

  • Spell words correctly in my writing, even if I need to access a resource.

  • Revise sentences to improve them by adding to them, combining them, or shortening them.

  • Use prefixes, suffixes, and roots to help understand a word.

Science and Social Studies Standards

Social Studies Standards
Science Standards

Grade 6 Curriculum Resources

  • HmH Into Literature

  • McGraw Hill Reveal Math

  • No Red Ink-not used 

  • NWEA MAP

  • IXL - Math, English, Reading, and Social Studies—--in red (not used)

  • ALEKS Math

  • Discovery Education

  • McGraw Hill: Inspire Science

  • Technology: Newline Interactive boards, student Chromebooks


Summer Reading Suggestions for Kids Going Into Seventh Grade

Grade 6 Online Resources for Parents and Students