Standard 3: Writing Process

Obejctives

Activities

Goal 3.1: Acquire Prewriting Skills

6.LA.3.1.1 Generate ideas using prewriting strategies.

Prewriting

Prewriting

6.LA.3.1.2 Generate a main idea appropriate to the type of writing.

Writing Process Site

Writing Process

Writing Vocab

6.LA.3.1.3 Select organizational strategies appropriate for writing.

Graphic Organizers

6.LA.3.1.4 Apply an appropriate writing format for purpose and audience.

Audience and Purpose

6.LA.3.1.5 Plan writing to produce a piece of writing within a set time period.

Goal 3.2: Acquire Skills for Writing a Draft

6.LA.3.2.1 Use ideas generated and organized in prewriting to write a draft with a main idea and supporting details.

6.LA.3.2.2 Write a draft with a main idea and appropriate details in a logical sequence

Goal 3.3: Acquire Skills for Revising a Draft

6.LA.3.3.1 Revise draft for meaning, clarity and effective sequencing.

Revision

Revising

Essay Punch

6.LA.3.3.2 Add details to more effectively accomplish the purpose of writing.

Audience and Purpose

6.LA.3.3.3 Apply and add transition words to clarify sequence.

Word List

6.LA.3.3.4 Rearrange words, sentences, and paragraphs to enhance writing style

Word Game

Sentence-ordering exercise 1

Sentence-ordering exercise 2

Sentence-ordering exercise 3

Sentence-ordering exercise 4

Sentence-ordering exercise 5

Sentence-ordering exercise 6

Sentence-ordering exercise 7

Sentence-ordering exercise 8

Self-test quiz

6.LA.3.3.5 Apply literary models to refine writing style.

6.LA.3.3.6 Apply strategies to guide the revision process.

Goal 3.4: Acquire Skills for Editing a Draft

6.LA.3.4.1 Edit the draft using an editing checklist with common editing marks.

Editing

Power Proofreading

Proofreading 1

Proofreading 2

Writer's Choice-Proofreading

Publishing

Goal 3.5: Acquire Skills to Publish Writing

6.LA.3.5.1 Publish writing in an appropriate format for the purpose and audience.

Publishing Student Writing

Expository Essay
Compare-Contrast Essay

6.LA.3.5.2 Share writing with intended audience.

Standard 4: Writing Applications

Goal 4.1: Acquire Expressive (Narrative/Creative) Writing Skills

6.LA.4.1.1 Write narratives that develop a standard plot line.

Narrative Writing

Evaluation Station

Comic Creator

6.LA.4.1.2 Write a variety of expressive works that include sensory details and figurative language.

Idioms

Idioms

Hangman

Figurative Language Games

Do you know your metaphors?

Do you know your similes?

Literary Devices Quizzes

Figurative Language Lessons

Goal 4.2: Acquire Expository (Informational/ Research) Writing Skills

6.LA.4.2.1 Write technical text that identifies a sequence of activities or processes.

6.LA.4.2.2 Write a research report with facts, details, and examples from multiple sources.

Research and I-Search Papers

Research Report

Goal 4.3: Acquire Persuasive Writing Skills

6.LA.4.3.1 Write persuasive compositions that state and support a position with emotional appeals.

Argument and Persuasive Writing

Opinion Essay

Persuasive Essay

Goal 4.4: Acquire Skills for Literary Response

6.LA.4.4.1 Write a response that identifies a text to self, text to world, and/or text to text connection

6.LA.4.4.2 Write responses to literature that identify the author’s purpose.

Standard 5: Writing Components

Goal 5.1: Acquire Handwriting Skills

6.LA.5.1.1 Write fluently and legibly in print or cursive

Goal 5.2: Acquire Spelling Skills

6.LA.5.2.1 Spell correctly Grade 6 high-frequency words and content area words.

6.LA.5.2.2 Spell correctly multisyllabic words that include those with Greek and Latin derivatives.

Great Site

Puzzle

Quiz

Funbrain

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Spelling Game

6.LA.5.2.3 Apply spelling rules appropriate to grade level (e.g., less common prefixes, suffixes and plurals) to spell accurately.

Spelling Resources

Goal 5.3: Acquire Skills for Sentence Structure

6.LA.5.3.1 Identify complex sentences with subject and verb agreement.

Skills assessed in previous grades are included.

Examples:  Sentence type recognition (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory)

Complete/incomplete sentences [and run-ons]

Combining sentences to correctly form complete simple, compound, or complex sentences

Link

Punctuate

6.LA.5.3.2 Use correctly:

·    future verb tenses

·    adjectives

·    personal pronouns

·    conjunctions

·    adverbs

Future Verb Tense

Quiz

Quiz

Is&Are

Quiz

Adjectives

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Personal Pronouns

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Conjunctions

Adverbs

Quiz

Quiz

Goal 5.4: Acquire Skills for Using Conventions

6.LA.5.4.1 Apply capitalization correctly in writing.

Quia

Quia

Quiz

6.LA.5.4.2 Use quotation marks and commas to punctuate dialogue.

Quia

GrammarBook

• Argument and Persuasive Writing
• Autobiography, Biography, and Memoir Writing
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Book Reports
• Business Letters & Resumes
• Citation
• Creative Nonfiction
• Creative Writing
• Descriptive Writing
• Digital Storytelling
• Expository Writing
• Grammar & Parts of Speech
• Graphic Organizers
• Logical Fallacies
• Mechanics & Writing Conventions
• Miscellaneous Writing Sites and Ideas
• Multigenre Projects
• Narrative Writing
• Position Papers
• Publishing Student Writing
• Research and I-Search Papers
• Revision
• Sentence Structure
• 6+1 Trait Writing
• Writing the Summary and the Précis
• Writing about Literature
• Writing to a Prompt