Common Core ELA · Grade 6
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Why water teaches this standard well
Sixth graders select, organize, and analyze relevant content to explain systems such as drinking water treatment or a watershed's response to a storm. Technical water processes reward the definitions, classifications, and transitions this standard demands.
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Grade 6 Lesson plan
A grade 6 art lesson in which students use a horizon line, one vanishing point, and converging lines to draw an irrigation canal and furrowed fields for a farm calendar.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
A grade 6 graphic-design lesson where students create a pictogram sign system and short captions for the six stages of a water reclamation plant tour.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
A grade 6 ELA lesson where students read a fictional river monitoring table and write an explanatory paragraph describing what the water-quality readings show.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
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
A grade 6 ELA lesson in which students organize source facts and draft an explanatory paragraph on how a town's aquifer and wells supply its water.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Grade 6 students convert a fictional town's meter units into gallons, then draft an explainer paragraph telling residents what one billing unit really means.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
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
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.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
A 50-minute grade 6 lesson where students sequence reverse-osmosis process cards from a fictional coastal plant into an organized informative paragraph.
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
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
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
A grade 6 ELA worksheet that builds explanatory-writing skills, ordering the water-cycle stages and drafting a clear paragraph about a valley's water.
Grade 6 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
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 Classroom activity
Grade 6 students draw with vinegar and baking soda on paper dyed with red cabbage indicator, planning a composition whose pink and green marks show acid and base.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
A grade 6 art station where students paint a five-step light-to-dark value scale for water clarity and write short captions matching each swatch to a turbidity level.
Grade 6 Classroom 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 Writing prompt
A grade 6 informative writing prompt asking students to explain a fictional park's rain closure rule for a creek swim area using runoff data and test results.
Grade 6 Writing prompt
A grade 6 explanatory writing prompt in which students explain how rain gardens help a fictional town soak up stormwater and protect its creek.
Grade 6 Project
A five-session grade 6 project in which students stipple black-ink drawings of floc, ciliates, rotifers, and filaments for a fictional wastewater plant's field guide.
Grade 6 Project
Over five sessions, students research, script, test, and record a three-minute audio explainer telling families where a fictional town's storm drain water goes.
Grade 6 Project
Students turn the technical vocabulary of a fictional utility's annual water quality report into a twelve-term plain-language glossary booklet written for families.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
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 Graphic 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
A grade 6 compare and contrast organizer on who treats, tests, pays for, and reports on a private well against a city water supply, with a completed exemplar.