6th Grade Report Overview

The grade 6 instructional materials for ThinkCERCA Core English Language Arts and Reading meet expectations for alignment.

Anchor texts are well-crafted, content-rich, and rich in language and academic vocabulary; texts reflect the distribution of text types and genres required by the standards. The tasks, questions, and assignments are connected to the texts students read and require students to collect textual evidence. Units are grouped around a unit theme or topic and an essential question to build students’ knowledge over the course of the school year. Throughout the program, there are varied culminating tasks. 

The materials include grammar and usage activities and opportunities for students to interact with and acquire academic vocabulary. Materials include explicit vocabulary and grammar and usage instruction. Although the materials include research activities, they generally occur in one designated unit. 

The materials provide writing instruction that aligns to the standards across the school year and meets the distribution required by the standards for argumentative, informative/explanatory, and narrative writing.

Most questions and tasks are aligned to grade-level standards, and the Teacher Guide mostly includes sufficient guidance or resources to support standards-aligned, explicit instruction. The implementation schedules align with the core learning objectives and may be reasonably completed in the time allotted.