6th Grade Resources

This blog provides links to nonfiction and diverse media for lessons in the 6th grade reading program. Students in the program will expand their knowledge of topics and themes by exploring 'outside texts' related to narrative and nonfiction titles.

6.1 The Westing Game

Vocabulary Handbook

Labels and Highlighting Directions

Realistic Fiction (Mystery) Genre Chart

Day 3 - "Ellen Raskin and The Westing Game"

Day 3 - "How the American Dream Works"

Day 13 - "Biography: Andrew Carnegie"

Day 16 - Updated Lesson

Day 16 - "Salem Witch Trials: The Story of the Witch Hunt"

Day 16 - "Seeds of Paranoia: The Salem Witch Trials"

Day 26 - Updated Lesson

Day 26 - "Andrew Carnegie - Rags to Riches, Power to Peace"

(Teachers, this video has been taken down and was a replacement to the PBS video Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World. We are working to resolve this but, in the meanwhile, here is another video link to use: How Andrew Carnegie Became the Richest Man in the World.)

Day 31 - "Napoleon Hill"

Day 31 - "Napoleon Hill: Whatever the Mind Can Conceive and Believe, the Mind Can Achieve"

6.1 Book Club

Mystery Genre Chart

The London Eye Setting Map

The Hound of the Baskervilles Article

6.2 Children of the Dust Bowl

Vocabulary Handbook

Labels and Highlighting Directions

Historical Nonfiction Genre Chart

Day 4 - "What Are Stocks?"

Day 4 - "The Market Crashes"

Day 4 - "Sinking Deeper and Deeper"

Days 10 & 11 - "Surviving the Dust Bowl"

Days 10 & 11 - "Surviving the Dust Bowl" Transcript

Day 16 - "Dorothea Lange's Social Vision"

Day 17 - "Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936"

(Teachers, this video has been taken down from the PBS site and we are SO SAD because this is one of our favorite lessons! We are working to resolve this but, in the meanwhile, here is another video link to use: Antiques Roadshow: The Story of the Migrant Mother .)