Oral Language 

6.1  The student will analyze oral participation in small-group
     activities.
     * Communicate as leader and contributor.
     * Evaluate own contributions to discussions.
     * Summarize and evaluate group activities.
     * Analyze the effectiveness of participant interactions.

6.2  The student will listen critically and express opinions in
     oral presentations.
     * Distinguish between facts and opinions.
     * Compare and contrast points of view.
     * Present a convincing argument.

Reading/Literature

6.3  The student will read and learn the meanings of unfamiliar
     words.
     * Use knowledge of word origins and derivations.
     * Use word-reference materials.

VoyCabulary

A really neat dictionary that allows you to search for a 
definition of a web site or a word.

OneLook Dictionaries


6.4  The student will read a variety of fiction (realistic,
     fantasy, historical, and biographical) and nonfiction
     (expository and argumentative).
     * Use knowledge of literary forms to aid comprehension and
       predict outcomes.
     * Describe how the author's style elicits emotional response
       from the reader.
     * Distinguish between first- and third-person point of view.
     * Compare and contrast authors' styles.
     * Explain how character and plot development are used in a
       selection to support a central conflict or story line.
Web Published Fiction

A comprehensive list of web published fiction that provides
a variety of reading levels and subjects.


A Journal of Student Writing

This is a really wonderful site that features writings from all
grade levels.  Students may submit their own works if they wish.


Plot

This site is all text, but well worth the visit.  It comes
from a published book (the author runs the site).

          
6.5  The student will demonstrate comprehension of a variety of
     selections.
     * Identify questions to be answered.
     * Make, confirm, or revise predictions as needed.
     * Use context clues to read unfamiliar words.
     * Draw conclusions and make inferences based on explicit and
       implied information.
     * Organize information for use in written and oral
       presentations.
     * Compare and contrast information about one topic contained
       in different selections.

6.6  The student will read and write a variety of poetry.
     * Describe the visual images created by language.
     * Describe how word choice, speaker, and imagery elicit a
       response from the reader.
     * Compare and contrast plot and character development in
       narrative poems, short stories, and longer fiction
       selections.

Poetry Daily

This site has a new poem posted each day.


The Poetry Organisation

This site has a new poem each week.


The International Poetry Hall of Fame Museum

This page contains mini-biographies as well as examples of poetry
for each poet listed.


Writing

6.7  The student will write narratives, descriptions, and
     explanations.
     * Use a variety of planning strategies to generate and
       organize ideas.
     * Establish central idea, organization, elaboration, and
       unity.
     * Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central
       idea, tone, and voice.
     * Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard
       coordination, and subordination in complete sentences.
     * Revise writing for clarity.
     * Edit final copies for correct use of language:
       subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement, consistent
       tense inflections, and adverb and adjective usage.
     * Edit final copies for writing mechanics: format,
       capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

6.8  The student will use writing as a tool for learning in all
     subjects.
     * Make lists.
     * Paraphrase what is heard or read.
     * Summarize what is heard or read.
     * Hypothesize.
     * Connect knowledge within and across disciplines.
     * Synthesize information to construct new concepts.

Research 

6.9  The student will select the best sources for a given
     purpose, including atlases, dictionaries, globes,
     interviews, telephone directories, encyclopedias, electronic
     databases, and the Reader's Guide.


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