6th Units and Lessons

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Sixth Grade Lessons and Units Resources

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State Collections

Louisiana Department of Education: Sixth Grade
Mississippi Exemplar Unit: Sixth Grade
New York State ELA Units
Vermont Writing Collaborative: Writing for Understanding Common Core Units for Teachers
Kentucky Literacy Strategies and Organizers

Independent Organization Collections

Student Achievement Partners: Instructional Lesson Planning Guide
Anthology Alignment Project (6th-10th): Common Core-aligned lessons for use with texts included in anthologies developed prior to the CCSS Grades 6-11
Basal Alignment Project (3rd-6th): Common Core-aligned lessons for Basal programs developed prior to the CCSS (some of which include texts that are commonly used trade books) Grades 3-6. Select the series on the left.
Anthology Alignment Project: Free teacher-developed Common Core-aligned lessons for anthology reading series in grade seven. Each story has updated text-dependent questions, tier 2 vocabulary as well as culminating tasks including writing.
CommonLit: High quality, free, standards aligned instructional units that support literacy development in grades 5-12
Common Sense Media: Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum: These free K-12 materials are aligned to our new standards and can be accessed in IBooks or in printable form.
NCTE Lessons: Poetry
Literacy Design Collaborative: Sample curriculum