Mrs. Susan Pennell

Sixth Grade Students Will:

• Read works that focus on text complexity and its academic language
• Extract and employ evidence from the text, literary and informational 
• Build knowledge through content-rich non-fiction
• Write essays by responding to text, including comparison and synthesis of ideas
• Improve reading comprehension skills using Notice and Note strategies for both fiction and non-fiction texts
• Practice PVLEGS techniques for speaking and presenting in front of the class
• Use grammar skills to improve writing and speaking