Grade 6 Lesson plan
Two Documents on Hallowford's PFAS Plan: A Grade 6 Lesson
A grade 6 ELA lesson comparing a fictional town's PFAS fact sheet with a resident's letter, so students see how purpose shapes the evidence a writer includes.
Common Core ELA · Grade 6
RI.6.1 Citing textual evidence
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Why water teaches this standard well
Sixth graders cite textual evidence to support analysis of water passages on topics such as groundwater depletion or how treatment removes contaminants. Water texts that mix claims with data give students meaningful evidence to select and cite.
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61 materials aligned to RI.6.1
Lesson plans
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Ironsdale's Lead Pipe Notice: A Grade 6 Research Writing Lesson
A grade 6 ELA lesson where students gather details from three short sources about a fictional town's lead service lines and write an informative response.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Marisol Water Plant: A Grade 6 Water Careers Reading Lesson
A grade 6 ELA lesson where students read a water plant operator's profile, cite evidence, and map the education paths into water-sector careers.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Why Ordway's Top Floor Loses Water Pressure: A Grade 6 Lesson
Grade 6 students cite evidence from a short text about a fictional six-story building, then write a cause-and-effect paragraph explaining weak top-floor pressure.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Sallowbeck Creek's Fish Kill: A Grade 6 Cause and Effect Lesson
A grade 6 ELA lesson in which students trace the cause and effect chain in a fictional creek's fish kill report and write an explanatory paragraph from it.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Word Choice in Tarnside's Drought Notice: A Grade 6 Lesson
A grade 6 ELA lesson comparing two drafts of a fictional town's drought notice, so students see how vague and precise word choices change what readers actually do.
Worksheets
Grade 6 Worksheet
Summarizing the Thistlebank Digester Article: A Grade 6 Worksheet
Students judge three candidate summaries of an article about a fictional plant's methane digester, then write their own summary free of opinion and stray detail.
Grade 6 Worksheet
The Whinmoor Pump Failure in a Log and a Letter: Grade 6 Worksheet
Students compare a fictional pump station operator's log with a resident's letter to the editor, citing evidence and separating direct observation from inference.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Norwood Vale's Well Test Letter: Reading the Results
A grade 6 document-analysis worksheet on a county letter reporting private well test results, covering what each result means and why private wells are the owner's job.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Coldwater Point's Home Filter: A Grade 6 Vocabulary Worksheet
A grade 6 ELA worksheet on a short passage about a home reverse osmosis filter, focused on figuring out key words from context and citing details.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Cresswell Flats Plant Tour: A Grade 6 Sequencing Worksheet
Grade 6 students put six scrambled treatment steps from a fictional plant tour in order, choose transitions, and write a sequenced explanatory paragraph.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Dellwood Water Plant Operator: A Grade 6 Careers Reading Worksheet
A grade 6 ELA worksheet on a short profile of a water treatment operator, with evidence-citing questions and vocabulary about the career path.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Elmcott's Groundwater Fact Sheet: A Grade 6 Paraphrase Worksheet
A grade 6 ELA worksheet using a fictional town's groundwater fact sheet to practice paraphrasing, judging copied wording, and keeping numbers and terms accurate.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Sable Ridge Home Water Audit: A Grade 6 Reading Worksheet
A grade 6 ELA worksheet built on a short passage about a fictional family's home water audit, mixing evidence-citing questions with vocabulary in use.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Sorting Comments on Stonefield Dam: A Grade 6 Evidence Worksheet
Grade 6 students sort six public comment cards about a fictional dam into claims, reasons, and evidence, then build one claim of their own from the cards.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Yarrowfield's Farm Water Report: A Grade 6 Structure Worksheet
A grade 6 ELA worksheet in which students name the text structure of four excerpts from a fictional farm water report and write one excerpt of their own.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Reading Thornby's Yearly Water Quality Report
A grade 6 civics worksheet where students read a fictional town's annual water quality report, compare test results to legal limits, and find one result as a percent.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Thornapple Lake's Algae Bloom: A Grade 6 Vocabulary Worksheet
A grade 6 worksheet where students use context clues and cited evidence from a fictional lake's water-testing notebook to define nutrient-pollution vocabulary.
Classroom activities
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Dovecote's Low Reservoir: A Grade 6 Research Question Carousel
Groups rotate through four posted source cards about a fictional town's low reservoir, narrowing a broad research question at each stop before choosing two sources.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Pellowmere's Water Main Break: A Grade 6 Newsroom Activity
A grade 6 ELA activity in which news teams weigh four sources about a fictional town's water main break and script a short report for a named audience.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Home Water Safety: A Grade 6 Sorting Activity
A grade 6 card-sort activity where students read short home water situations, decide whether to drink, skip, or take a step first, and cite the clue.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Bellamy Reservoir's Water Quality Report: A Grade 6 Vocabulary Relay
A grade 6 station-rotation activity where students define terms from a fictional water quality report and judge each measured result against its standard.
Reading passages
Grade 6 Reading passage
What Lives Under Wrenmere Creek's Gravel Bed
A grade 6 science reading passage on the water that moves through a creek's gravel bed, with fictional monitoring data and six comprehension questions.
Grade 6 Reading passage
The Fibers in the Ossley River: Counting Microplastics
A grade 6 science reading passage on how a fictional volunteer team samples and counts microplastics, with a data table and seven comprehension questions.
Grade 6 Reading passage
The Sunday the Wexlow Tap Tasted Like a Pool
A grade 6 reading passage in which a family traces a strong chlorine taste to routine utility maintenance, plus six comprehension questions and an answer key.
Grade 6 Reading passage
The Village Under Sparrow Gap Reservoir
A grade 6 reading passage about a valley village flooded to supply a growing city, with eight questions on the city's gain, the valley's loss, and how the rules changed.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Ardenridge Water Reuse Plant: A Day With the Operator
A grade 6 careers reading passage following a water reuse plant operator through one shift in a dry town, with six comprehension questions and an answer key.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Mapping the Dunmore Basin: A Hydrologist's Water Career
A grade 6 careers reading passage following a hydrologist who studies a shrinking aquifer, with comprehension questions on her fieldwork and long education path.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Bellcross's Water Line Crew: A Grade 6 Reading Passage
A grade 6 reading passage following a fictional town's water line crew through one workday, with the different education paths that brought each worker there.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Halstead Valley's Farm Water: A Grade 6 Reading Passage
A grade 6 informational passage on how a valley's farms use water, comparing drip and flood irrigation and the water it takes to grow food.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Listening for Leaks in Kirtland: A Grade 6 Reading Passage
A grade 6 informational passage following a fictional night-shift leak detection technician who finds cracked water mains by sound, with seven questions.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Two Sides of Fertilizer at Harlow Lake: A Grade 6 Reading Passage
A grade 6 informational passage about how the same nutrients that help a fictional farm's crops can harm a nearby lake, with comprehension questions.
Grade 6 Reading passage
The Ravensbrook Watershed: A Grade 6 Reading Passage
A grade 6 informational passage that follows a student tracing her town's tap water back through a creek and reservoir to its watershed.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Rill Creek Pump Station: A Grade 6 Reading Passage
A grade 6 informational passage explaining how a fictional pump station lifts water to higher ground and how operators keep it running, with questions.
Grade 6 Reading passage
The Microbes at Windlass Bay: A Grade 6 Reading Passage
A grade 6 informational passage on the living microbes that clean wastewater at a fictional plant, with seven comprehension questions and a full answer key.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Measuring Snow at Winnock Pass: A Grade 6 Reading Passage
A grade 6 reading passage following a fictional snow surveyor who weighs mountain snow to predict how much water a town's river will carry the following summer.
Grade 6 Reading passage
A Day at the Estcourt Water Plant: The Operator's Job
A grade 6 informational passage following a fictional water treatment operator through her day, covering the pay, training, and range of career paths in the water sector.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Feeding the Ellersby Digesters: Sludge, Microbes, and Gas
A grade 6 reading passage about the microbes inside the sludge digesters at Ellersby, with a five-week data table and seven comprehension questions.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Finding and Replacing Fernwald's Lead Water Lines
A grade 6 science reading passage on how a fictional town finds and replaces lead service lines, and the national rules that keep tightening.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Where the Rain Goes: Pebble Lane's New Rain Gardens
A grade 6 science reading passage about a fictional street's flooding, tracing how storm drains, rain gardens, and permeable pavement move and soak up rainwater.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Prescott Mills and the Pipes You Cannot See
A grade 6 science reading passage about a fictional town's water main break that explains why buried pipes age, break, and cost so much to replace.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Brimley's Wells and the New PFAS Rule
A grade 6 civics passage pairing a fictional town's PFAS discovery with the national PFAS rule to show the roles of citizens, the utility, the state, and the EPA.
Grade 6 Reading passage
How the Town of Eskdale Found Its Water
A grade 6 social studies passage about a fictional town that outgrew its wells and built a gravity aqueduct from a hill spring, showing how geography shapes settlement.
Grade 6 Reading passage
The Ditch Riders of the Vantry Valley
An original grade 6 passage about a fictional farmer-owned ditch company, the ditch rider who delivers its water, and how shareholders vote at the annual meeting.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Why Deepford Grew Beside the Brennig River Dam
An original grade 6 passage about a fictional mill town whose dam shaped where people lived and worked, and the choice the town faces now that the mill is gone.
Grade 6 Reading passage
When the Tap Isn't Safe: A Boil-Water Notice in Calder Springs
A grade 6 informational passage that follows a fictional family through a boil-water notice, explaining why it happens and how to stay safe at home.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Cobblestone Creek: A Grade 6 Storm Drain Pollution Reading Passage
A grade 6 informational passage explaining how storm drains carry untreated runoff to a fictional creek, tracing one storm's fertilizer and litter pathway.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Sparrow Pond's pH Swing: A Grade 6 Aquatic Chemistry Reading Passage
A grade 6 informational passage following a class's weekly pH testing at a fictional pond, tracing how a storm shifts pH and a natural buffer restores it.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Testing the Wells of Basswood Hollow for PFAS
A grade 6 reading passage following a fictional town's PFAS well-testing story, showing why nearby wells can test differently and what a federal limit means.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Aging Pipes, Rising Bills: Why Water Systems Need Investment
A grade 6 passage on why US water infrastructure needs investment, using real report-card grades, main-break rates, and bill-trend figures.
Grade 6 Reading passage
A Morning at Rockford Junction: Becoming a Water Operator
A grade 6 passage following a fictional apprentice operator through a shift, using real median pay, licensing, and workforce figures for the career.
Writing prompts
Grade 6 Writing prompt
Should Cranbeck Test Its School Fountains Every Year?
A grade 6 argument writing prompt on whether a fictional district should test every school drinking fountain yearly, with background, an organizer, exemplar, and rubric.
Grade 6 Writing prompt
Should Redwood Middle School Install a Water-Bottle Filling Station?
A grade 6 argument prompt on replacing vending-machine bottled water with a filling station, using real federal tap-water safety standards as evidence.
Debate kits
Grade 6 Debate kit
Capping the Pumps Over the Tanmoor Flats Aquifer
A grade 6 science debate on whether a fictional district should limit yearly pumping to what an aquifer gains back, with two-sided well and recharge evidence.
Grade 6 Debate kit
Should Ashkettle Approve the Water Bottling Plant?
A grade 6 debate kit on whether a fictional town should let a bottling company pump its aquifer, with two-sided evidence, assigned roles, and a four-level rubric.
Grade 6 Debate kit
Should Quarrymill Require Permeable Paving for New Lots?
A grade 6 debate kit on whether a fictional town should require permeable paving for new parking lots, with two-sided evidence, roles, and a four-level rubric.
Grade 6 Debate kit
Recycled Water for Verde Springs Park: A Grade 6 Debate Kit
A grade 6 debate kit on whether a fictional drought town should use recycled water to irrigate its park, with genuine two-sided evidence and a rubric.
Quizzes & test questions
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
The Dartmore Landfill and Vasterly's Wells: A Grade 6 Assessment
A 30-point grade 6 reading assessment on an article about a chemical from a fictional town's closed landfill reaching a monitoring well, with a written explanation.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Lorrick's Lead Service Lines: A Grade 6 Argument Assessment
A 30-point grade 6 assessment in which students read three short documents about who pays for a fictional town's lead pipe replacement and write an argument paragraph.
Graphic organizers
Grade 6 Graphic organizer
Kilverstone Water by the Numbers: A Grade 6 Units Organizer
A five-column organizer in which students unpack six sentences from a fictional utility's by-the-numbers page, naming each unit and restating it in everyday words.
Grade 6 Graphic organizer
Keeping Sedgeworth's Pool Open in a Dry Summer: Grade 6 Organizer
An argument-planning frame with an eight-item evidence bank about a fictional town's pool during a drought, ending with a box for the evidence a writer set aside.