Text Based Writing: Nonfiction: Common Core Mastery, Grade 6

Ideal for preparing your sixth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series provides scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential writing forms, such as: Argument, Cause and effect, Compare and contrast, Explanatory, and Opinion. The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts. Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes: a dictionary page that introduces content words, close reading of a leveled nonfiction article, text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding, a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing, a text-dependent writing prompt, and a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay.