Description
All 8 lessons are complete — notice hyperbole in a text, make an inference using clues in a text, find the main idea and supporting ideas in a text, notice cultural elements in a text, find whose view a text shows, name the topic a text is about, notice how the past shapes a text made by a First Nations, Metis, or Inuit creator, and compare the critical thinking skills we used this unit.
Every lesson comes with a full teaching set: a lesson plan, a worksheet, homework, and a handout. The unit also includes 8 exit cards, 2 quizzes, a project, and an assignment.
Grade 6 · ready for Monday
What's in this unit
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1
Plan
8 lesson plans, each one 40-minute period, with what to say and what to watch for.
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Slides
The lesson on the board, one step at a time, with each answer on the next slide.
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Printouts
A worksheet, a handout and homework for every lesson.
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Assessment
8 exit cards, 2 quizzes, a project, an assignment.
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Answer keys
At the back of every worksheet, homework and assessment.
The 8 lessons
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Bigger Than Life, Wrapped in a Phrasenotice hyperbole in a text and notice idioms in a text - 2Reading Between the Linesmake an inference using clues in a text and tell whether an inference is about one moment or the whole text
- 3Finding the Big Idea and Judging the Evidencefind the main idea and supporting ideas in a text and judge whether information is reliable and useful, and to form a conclusion
- 4What a Tradition Tells Younotice cultural elements in a text and figure out what a cultural element might mean
- 5Whose Side Is the Story On?find whose view a text shows and spot bias and suggest a fairer way to write
- 6What Is This Text Really Saying?name the topic a text is about and find its message, and see that people can view a topic in different ways
- 7Stories Shaped by Time and Placenotice how the past shapes a text made by a First Nations, Metis, or Inuit creator and link that past to life today
- 8Which Thinking Skill Worked Best?compare the critical thinking skills we used this unit and explain which skills helped us most and why
- Read-Me-First — open it before anything else; one page that says what each file is for
- One numbered zip per lesson: lesson plan, worksheet, homework, handout and a one-page lesson read-me
- A zip for the 8 exit cards; a zip for the assessments: 2 quizzes, a project, and an assignment
- Every file as a print-ready PDF and an editable Word document; the lesson plan also as a PowerPoint deck to project
In every lesson
- Lesson plan
- Worksheet
- Homework
- Handout
For the whole unit
- 8 exit cards
- 2 quizzes
- A project
- An assignment
- Every format included — PDF, DOCX & PPTX
- Bigger Than Life, Wrapped in a Phrase
- Reading Between the Lines
- Finding the Big Idea and Judging the Evidence
- What a Tradition Tells You
- Whose Side Is the Story On?
- What Is This Text Really Saying?
- Stories Shaped by Time and Place
- Which Thinking Skill Worked Best?
- Each lesson fits one 40-minute period; the plan is written for a substitute to teach cold
- Prints cleanly in black and white; nothing depends on colour
- Answer keys on the teacher pages at the end of every worksheet, homework and assessment
- In My files right away, and by email.
- Zips open on any computer; on a phone, save them to Files or Drive first
- Licensed to one teacher for one classroom — not for sharing with colleagues or your school. Full licence terms
- Digital files are final sale; if something is wrong with a file we'll fix it
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