Grade 6 -- Language Mechanics Scope and Sequence The Language Mechanics (Grade 6) Teaching Guide that you received in the workshop has activities for every concept. Recommendations: (1) Formative Assessments every week or couple of weeks (2) Looping for ongoing review – keep pulling in skills you’ve already taught (3) Format – Have students actually generate sentences that illustrate concepts and rules. You’ll be helping students become better readers and writers. Week Concept Notes 1 You should use the Overview PowerPoint to assess students’ knowledge. 2 Topic sentences/purposes of paragraphs I would teach these concepts (purposes and topic sentences) together to show students how to build topic sentences for specific purposes. I would teach all of the purposes this week. As you move on to teaching in depth the three types of writing, you can refer back to these purposes. 3 Review/continue topic sentences/purposes of As you teach these concepts, paragraphs keep referring to the overview Paragraph unity – eliminating irrelevant PowerPoint to remind information yourself how the questions Paragraphing – ordering of information will be asked. 4 Commas – setting off the words, for example Apostrophes – possessives 5 *Modifiers, misplaced 6 *Adjectives, comparative and superlatives *Quotation marks, around direct quotes and story titles 7 *Capitalization, first word of direct quotes *Adverbs, knowing when to use adverb instead of adjective 8 Capitalization, in titles (stories and paintings) *Capitalization – adjectives derived from place names; languages *Capitalization, title before a name *Overcapitalization – Term Paper, Book Report, etc.
9 *S-V Agr., singular and plural You will need to teach/review prepositions and prep. phrases here before you teach students that a subject can never be in a prep. phrase. 10 *Pronouns-subjective, objective, possessive Overuse – personal pronoun following a subject 11 *Commas, overuse, separating a subject and verb *Verb Tense – past, present, future
12 *Verb Tense cont. *Capitalization—title of people, languages * Capitalization – all words in location name
13 *Commas, with coordinating conjunctions *Commas, with subordinating conjunctions 14 *Commas, coordinating conj. or sub. cont. *Commas, in a listing; in a listing following a colon *Parallelism, in a listing 15 *Paragraphing, adding sensory detail (Teach in conjunction with narrative writing.) 16 *Fragments, prep. phrases *dependent clauses beginning with sub. conj. 17 *Run-ons, short sentence joined by only a comma or with no punct. 18 *Wordiness, repetition of words, words that mean the same
*Combining sentences to eliminate wordiness
19 *Voice – active rather than passive * Pronouns – who, whom 20 Give overview PowerPoint to assess students’ progress. 21 Reteach/review skills. 22 Reteach/review skills. 23 Reteach/review skills. 24 Reteach/review skills. 25 Reteach/review skills. 26 Reteach/review skills. 27 Reteach/review skills. 28 Reteach/review skills. 29 Reteach/review skills. 30 Reteach/review skills.