Help your sixth-grade students build strong literary analysis and comprehension skills with activities that support Common Core rigor in the areas of Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, and Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity. Additional teacher support includes: Correlations to Common Core State Standards and TEKS for every unit for easy reference, Downloadable homeschool connection activities and projects help to increase parental involvement, Guided reading levels to help identify appropriate texts for students, and A walk-through of each literary text selection and activity pages that support the unit. The 9 units explore these genres and reading selections: Science Fiction: My Unusual Saturday, Realistic Fiction: Two Thoughtful Gifts, adapted from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, Poetry: ""The New Vestments"" by Edward Lear, Adventure Fiction: Hanging Out with the Bindi-Way Tribe, Realistic Fiction: Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores, Historical Fiction: The Record of
