Mrs. Shaver - 6th Grade ELA
Welcome to 6th Grade English Language Arts!
Weekly Word Stems
Books we will be reading this year:
Restart by Gordon Korman
Some important ELA Topics we will focus on this year:
- Reading and making inferences (understanding what is implied, but not directly stated)
- Understanding new or unfamiliar vocabulary words in a text, using context clues
- Understanding the text structure of non-fiction texts
- Reading & determining the central idea or theme of a text
- Understanding figurative language in a text
- Writing personal narratives & research-based informational essays
- Building an understanding of word stems (Latin & Greek roots)
