Introduction to Fiction 4 Reading 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.C.3b

Level I Unit 1 Fiction Finding a Place in the World Grade 6 Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts Introduction to Fiction 4 Reading 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.C.3b Guided Reading Understanding Plot 6 Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3c Fiction Reading Model 8 Reading 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Lob s Girl by Joan Aiken 9 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 5.B.3b Understanding Characters 24 Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3c The Goodness of Matt Kaizer by Avi 25 Sentence Fragments and Run-ons40 Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a, 5.C.3c, 3.B.3b Understanding Setting 41 Reading 1.A.3a, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez 42 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a

Harvesting Hope: The Story of César Chávez by Kathleen Krull 50 Directed Reading The All-American Slurp by Lensey Namioka 56 Vocabulary & Spelling Synonyms and Antonyms 67 Eleven by Sandra Cisneros 68 Same Song by Pat Mora 72 Types of Nouns 74 Comparing Literature 75 All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury 76 The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov 82 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 5.A.3b, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3a, 5.C.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Research 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Research 5.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3b, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3b Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 3.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c

The Scribe by Kristin Hunter 86 The Sand Castle Alma Luz Villanueva 95 The Forecast: A Warmer World A News Article from Time for Kids 100 Semicolons and Colons 103 Independent Reading Aaron s Gift by Myron Levoy 104 La Bamba by Gary Soto 112 Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3c Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.C.3b, 3.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b For Your Reading List 119 Reading 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Writing Workshop Expository Writing: Responding to a Short Story 120 Speaking & Listening Workshop Delivering and Listening to an Expository Presentation 126 Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Literary Response Joyriding Reading 1.C.3a, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3d, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c Literature 2.A.3b, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a

by Jim Naughton 128 Revising and Editing Skills 129 Reading Skills Priscilla and the Wimps by Richard Peck 130 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3c

Unit 2 Fiction Meeting Challenges Grade 6 Guided Reading Understanding Point of View 134 Tuesday of the Other June Norma Fox Mazer 135 Identifying Personal and Possessive Pronouns 148 Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b Understanding Theme 149 Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a The Bracelet Yoshiko Uchida 150 In Response to Executive Order 9066 by Dwight Okita 158 Directed Reading Ta-Na-E-Ka by Mary Whitebird 160 Vocabulary & Spelling Denotation and Connotation 170 Comparing Literature 171 Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake Boys by James Berry 172 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Reading 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 5.C.3a, 5.C.3b Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Research 5.C.3b The Southpaw 179 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b,

by Judith Viorst 1.C.3c Literature 1.A.3b, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c, 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer 183 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 191 The Dog of Pompeii by Louis Untermeyer 192 Pompeii by Robert Silverberg 202 President Cleveland, Where Are You? by Robert Cormier 213 Card-carrying Collectors by Kathleen McKenna 223 Comma Use 228 Independent Reading Dragon, Dragon by John Gardner 229 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3e, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3b Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 5.B.3b, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 3.B.3c, 3.B.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 3.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c

The King of Mazy May by Jack London 236 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 3.C.3b For Your Reading List 243 Reading 1.C.3d Literature 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Writing Workshop Narrative Writing: Writing a Short Story 244 Speaking & Listening Workshop Delivering and Listening to a Literary Interpretation 252 Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Literary Response 254 Revising and Editing Skills 255 Reading Skills The Tunnel by Sarah Ellis 256 Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3b, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3c

Unit 3 Nonfiction Defining Freedom Grade 6 Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts Introduction to Nonfiction 260 Reading 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d Guided Reading Nonfiction Reading Model 262 The Jacket by Gary Soto 263 Abd al-rahman Ibrahima by Walter Dean Myers 270 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement 284 Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3b, 4.B.3d Understanding the Essay 285 Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3c Why? by Anne Frank 286 from All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum 291 The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be by Nikki Giovanni 296 Directed Reading from The Need for Solidarity Among Ethnic Groups by Aung San Suu Kyi 298 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a

Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3b from There Is No Salvation for India by Mohandas Gandhi 303 An Old Language Lives from Tales from the Times by Rachel L. Swarns 306 Vocabulary & Spelling Spelling by Syllables 310 from The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa by Zitkala-Sa 311 Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns 320 from The Pigman and Me by Paul Zindel 321 Vocabulary & Spelling Word Parts (Prefixes, Suffixes, and Base Words) 331 Comparing Literature 332 Satchel Paige by Bill Littlefield, Patricia C. McKissack, and Fredrick McKissack, Jr. 333 The Shutout by Patricia C. McKissack and Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 5.C.5c Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Reading 1.A.3b Reading 1.A.3, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b

Fredrick McKissack, Jr. 340, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d Little Rock, Arkansas by Jim Haskins 344 Youth by Langston Hughes 348 Capitalization Rules 350 Independent Reading from Woodsong by Gary Paulsen 351 Mi Familia by Carmen Tafolla 355 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a For Your Reading List 361 Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 5.C.3c Writing Workshop Persuasive Writing: Persuasive Essay 362 Speaking & Listening Workshop Delivering and Listening to a Persuasive Speech 368 Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Persuasive Essay The Fan Club by Rona Maynard 370 Revising and Editing Skills 371 Reading Skills from I m Still Me by Christopher Reeve 372 Reading 1.C.3a, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3b, 4.A.3d, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d Reading 1.A.3b Writing 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3c

Unit 4 Nonfiction Testing Limits Grade 6 Introduction to Informational Text and Visual Media 376 Guided Reading The Five Wanderers of the Ancient Skies by Dennis Brindell Fradin 378 Earth from Space Photographs from NASA 386 An Ancient Computer Surprises Scientists by John Noble Wilford 389 Noise Levels by Bob Ludlow 392 Hearing Under Seige by Bob Ludlow 394 Vocabulary & Spelling Context Clues 397 Directed Reading Comparing Literature 398 Developing Your Chops by Fran Lantz 399 Muddy Waters from The Blues Singers by Julius Lester 405 Parts of Speech 409 Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts Reading 1.A.3a, 1.C.3f Literature 2.A.3c Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a, 5.C.3c Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3b Research 5.C.3c Reading 1.B.3a, 1.C.3f Literature 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Reading 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Research 5.C.3c

How to Surf 410 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3c A Sea Worry by Maxine Hong Kinston 414 from Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey 419 from Woman in the Mists by Farley Mowat 423 Subject-Verb Agreement 426 Childhood Photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue 427 from Diary of a Century by Jacques-Henri Lartigue 431 Independent Reading A Breath of Fresh Air? by Alexandra Hanson-Harding 434 The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island by Hergé 438 Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3b, 5.C.3c, 3.B.3b Reading 1.B.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3a, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Reading 1.B.3a Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b

For Your Reading List 441 Writing Workshop Expository Writing: Cause-and-Effect Essay 442 Viewing Workshop Critical Viewing: Getting Information from Visuals 448 Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Expository Essay 450 Revising and Editing Skills 451 Reading Skills from The Challenger Disaster by Peggy Noonan 452 Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Writing 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3b, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d

Unit 5 Poetry Expressing Yourself Grade 6 Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts Introduction to Poetry 456 Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3e Poetry Reading Model 458 Reading 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Understanding Imagery and Figurative Language 459 Ode to La Tortilla by Gary Soto 460 Vocabulary & Spelling Spelling with Prefixes and Suffixes 464 Abuelito Who by Sandra Cisneros 465 The Bats from Under the Royal Palms by Alma Flor Ada 468 Reading 1.B.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d Reading 1.A.3b Reading 1.B.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3b Reading 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c, 5.C.3c Understanding Sound Devices 472 Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a Life Doesn t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou 474 The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll 479 Vocabulary & Spelling Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d Reading 1.A.3b

Use Reference Materials to Determine Word Meanings 486 Directed Reading Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll 487 from The Other Alice by Christina Björk 490 Comparing Literature 493 There Is No Word for Goodbye by Mary Tallmountain 494 If You Should Go by Countee Cullen 496 One Time by William Stafford 498 Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg 501 Dashes and End Punctuation 505 Steps by Naomi Shihab Nye 506 Adjective and Adverb Clauses 510 Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 511 Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 5.C.3c Reading 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Reading 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 3.C.3b Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b Reading 1.B.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a, 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.c.3a, 5.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b

, 5.B.3b, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c Almost Evenly Divided by Emma Suárez-Báez 514 The Sidewalk Racer, or On the Skateboard by Lillian Morrison 517 Independent Reading Jimmy Jet and His TV Set by Shel Silverstein 520 Good Hot Dogs by Sandra Cisneros 522 A Remarkable Adventure by Jack Prelutsky 524 Reading 1.B.3a, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 5.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 5.A.3b Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d For Your Reading List 527 Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3b Writing Workshop Narrative Writing: Personal Narrative 528 Speaking & Listening Workshop Delivering and Listening to an Oral Summary 534 Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: A Personal Narrative My Father s Song by Simon Ortiz 536 Revising and Editing Skills 537 Reading 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3b, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Reading 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3b, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d

Reading Skills from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge 538 Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a

Unit 6 Poetry Encountering Nature Grade 6 Guided Reading Understanding Meaning in Poetry 542 The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes 543 in Just by E.E. Cummings 547 Directed Reading The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 551 Dangers of the Deep by Alex Markels 557 Simple and Compound Subjects 561 Child on Top of a Greenhouse by Theodore Roethke 562 Cynthia in the Snow by Gwendolyn Brooks 565 Comparing Literature 568 Seal by William Jay Smith 569 Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3b Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3e Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3b, 4.b.3d Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3b

Whale Breathing by Bill Holm 570 Spring is like a perhaps hand by E.E. Cummings 572 Vocabulary & Spelling Homonyms, Homophones, and Multiple-meaning Words 575 Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple by Emily Dickinson 576 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 579 Haiku by Matsuo Bashō 580 Comparing Literature 584 The Eagle: A Fragment by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 585 Street Corner Flight by Norma Landa Flores 586 Regrets on the Way to an Airport by Ali Abunimah 588 English Sparrows (Washington Square) Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d, 5.C.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 3.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a, 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a, 3.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Research 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d

by Edna St. Vincent Millay 591 Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Limericks by Edward Lear 594 A Minor Bird by Robert Frost 598 Independent Reading We grow accustomed to the Dark by Emily Dickinson 601 City Trees by Edna St. Vincent Millay 603 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 3.C.3b Research 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.B.3a Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a, 3.C.3b For Your Reading List 605 Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3b, 5.A.3b Writing Workshop Descriptive Writing: Descriptive Essay 606 Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Narrative Presentations 612 Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Descriptive Essay 614 Revising and Editing Skills 615 Reading Skills Cat and the Weather by May Swenson 616 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Reading 1.B.3b Writing 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3b, 4.A.3d, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a

Unit 7 Drama Discovering Other Worlds Grade 6 Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts Introduction to Drama 620 Reading 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c Research 5.C.3c Guided Reading Drama Reading Model 622 In the Fog by Milton Geiger 623 from Gettysburg by John Stanchak 635 Directed Reading Comparing Literature 637 The Fairies Lullaby by William Shakespeare 638 The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats 640 Independent and Dependent Clauses 643 Do You Think I m Crabby? by Clark Gesner 644 Vocabulary & Spelling Figurative vs. Literal Meaning, Idioms, and Analogies 649 Independent Reading The Phantom Tollbooth, Act 1 Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Reading 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 5.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3e Reading 1.A.3b Literature 2.A.3a Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e

by Norton Juster 650 Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3b Research 5.C.3c The Phantom Tollbooth, Act 2 by Norton Juster 667 Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Speaking and Listening 4.A.3b, 4.B.3d, 5.C.3c For Your Reading List 687 Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3d, 4.B.3d Writing Workshop Expository Writing: Compare-and-Contrast Essay 688 Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Informative Presentations 694 Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Expository Essay from Charlotte s Web by E.B. White 696 Revising and Editing Skills 697 Reading Skills Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Richard R. George 698 Reading 1.C.3c Literature 2.B.3b, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Reading 1.C.3d Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3b, 4.A.3d, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d, 5.A.3b, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3c

Unit 8 Folk Literature Imagining the Fantastic Grade 6 Introduction to the Folk Literature 702 Reading 1.A.3b Literature 2.A.3c Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts Guided Reading Folk Literature Reading Model 704 Arachne by Olivia Coolidge 705 The Orb Weaver by Robert Francis 713 Vocabulary & Spelling Greek and Latin Roots and Word Origins 715 Why Monkeys Live in Trees by Julius Lester 716 Directed Reading The Twelve Labors of Hercules by Walker Brents 722 Simple and Compound Predicates 731 Comparing Literature 732 The Magic Mortar by Yoshiko Uchida 733 Reading 1.B.3a, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3b, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 5.C.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c

The Stone by Lloyd Alexander 738 The Cow of No Color by Nina Jaffe and Steve Zeitlin 745 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 2.B.3c Research 5.A.3b, 5.C.3a, 5.C.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.B.3a Ewe Proverbs 748 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3b, 5.C.3a, 5.C.3b The Legend of the Hummingbird by Pura Belpré 750 The Creation by Joseph Bruchac 755 The Living Kuan-yin by Carol Kendall and Yao-Wen Li 759 Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences 766 The Affair of the Horns by Victor Montejo 767 Conjunctions 773 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c, 5.C.3a Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b, 5.C.3b Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3e, 5.C.3c, 3.B.3b Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Research 5.C.3c, 3.B.3b

Independent Reading Clever Anaeet by Tanya Robyn Batt 774 How Robin Hood Saved the Widow s Three Sons by Sara Hyry Barry 780 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Research 5.C.3c For Your Reading List 783 Reading 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Writing Workshop Expository Writing: Research Report 784 Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Research Presentations 792 Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Research Report 794 Revising and Editing Skills 795 Reading Skills from Why the Sky Is Far Away From the Earth by Fitzgerald Iyamabo 796 Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 5.A.3b, 5.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 5.C.3a, 5.C.3e Reading 1.C.3d, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d Research 5.C.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3c