Sixth Grade Reading

About Grade 6 Reading

Grade 6 reading (6th grade, ages 11–12) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Unit 1 — Vocabulary & Word Study (lessons 1–8), Unit 2 — Literary Comprehension (lessons 9–16), Unit 3 — Reading Informational Texts (lessons 17–24), Unit 4 — Fluency & Performance (lessons 25–32), and finally Unit 5 — Reading Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to identify symbols in a literary text and distinguish them from their literal meaning, identify the main idea contributed by each of two or more sources on the same topic and plan a short audio summary or book review using a script structure.

Start here: Lesson 1: Greek & Latin roots and affixes for academic terms is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.