Sixth Grade Writing

About Grade 6 Writing

Grade 6 writing (6th grade, ages 11–12) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Unit 1 — Argument Writing (lessons 1–8), Unit 2 — Narrative & Personal Writing (lessons 9–16), Unit 3 — Informational & Research Writing (lessons 17–24), Unit 4 — Persuasive Media & Multimodal (lessons 25–32), and finally Unit 5 — Publishing & Reflection (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to distinguish between subject (what a story is about) and theme (what the story says about the subject), plan an informational article by identifying a clear topic and dividing it into sections and plan and script a short opinion podcast using a structured framework of intro, opinion, reasons, and call to action.

Start here: Lesson 1: Recognize claims, reasons and evidence 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.