Pacing Chart for Grade 6 Reading and English Language Arts (Scope & Sequence)

**UPDATE**
8/16/14 - Grammar & Language

I am making this available on Teachers Pay Teachers as a free download in response to overwhelming requests to view this document. This is not meant for you to use as-is, but is rather available to provide an example of how I use my various interactive notebooks and other products during the course of a school year.

I have revised this document because I will be teaching 6th grade ELAR (English Language Arts & Reading) during the 2014-2015 school year. I do not have a document in this format for grades 7 and 8, which I have also taught for the past several years, as I'm no longer teaching those grades.


This is a working document and therefore it will certainly change during the course of a school year. It is based on my calendar as well as policies from my district and will most likely require revision in some form in order for you to use. You may use this document in any way for your own personal classroom use. You may also share it with other educators. You may not, however, post it publicly on the Internet or alter this specific document in any way. I have made it available in order to provide other teachers with an outline of how I organize my pacing charts around interactive notebooks as well as specific lessons.

In some cases, specific stories or readings are planned without a listed skill or standard. In other cases, a skill and standard are listed but a story or reading has not yet been chosen. Here, you will see TBD – To Be Determined. This is based on the need to adapt instruction to specific students and classes and also to be flexible with the readings from year to year to keep up with current events as well as find readings that will best be suitable for and interest the students I will be teaching but have not yet met.

At the present time I am in the process of creating curriculum materials for language and grammar. The skills or topics listed in this document are placeholders but do not indicate actual skills that will be covered at those specific times. Please check back for an updated version that includes the language alignment in late summer 2014.

When listing specific standards for the CCSS alignment, I have only indicated standards that will be heavily emphasized during a given week. The standards listed are in no way exclusively taught but are often taught along with all standards that have been taught before it. For example, I will focus heavily on RL.6.1 (Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.) during the first weeks of school. You will not find it listed each week, but students will absolutely be engaged in some form of this standard during every week of the school year.

Abbreviations have been used to indicate where the lessons can be found, if applicable.
IRLN (Interactive Reading Literature Notebook)IRITN (Interactive Reading Informational Text Notebook)
IWN (Interactive Writing Notebook)
IRP (Interactive Research Papers)
IPN (Interactive Poetry Notebook)
IGN (Interactive Grammar Notebook)

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