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Sixth Grade Lessons and Units Resources

Lesson Design Tools

 Unit and lesson design guidance and templates

Literacy In Action

Videos that share literacy practices in action

Lessons and Units
State Collections

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

​Independent Organization Collections

• Achieve: A not for profit, independent group dedicated to raising student achievement; assisted in development of the CCSS: Select EQuIP Exemplars Tab, Grade 6
• 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. 
• Student Achievement Partners: Instructional Lesson Planning Guide
• 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: Teachers

• Literacy Design Collaborative Overview Page: Resources describe basics of LDC units--videos will give understanding as well.

• LDC Modules: What Task?
• LDC Modules: What Skills?
• LDC Modules: What Instruction?
• LDC Modules: What Results? 
• How to fill in LDC Templates
• LDC Task Collection Templates
• Resources Page offers tools for three writing types and much more
• Sample Curricula is available here however if educators sign up for a free LDC Core Tools  account, all modules are available for download.