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Sixth Grade Lessons and Units Resources

Literacy In Action

Videos that share literacy practices in action

State Collections​

• Louisiana Department of Education: Sixth Grade
• Maryland Exemplar Units
• Mississippi Exemplar Unit: Sixth Grade
• New York State ELA Units (EngageNY)
• ​Vermont Writing Collaborative: Writing for Understanding Common Core Units for Teachers

​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     ​