Happy Summer Everyone!

Summer Suggestions: 6th - 7th Grade

Reading Goals:

• Independently read and comprehend sixth grade level fiction and nonfiction texts. Make logical inferences and predictions, based on evidence. 
• Cite text evidence to support what the text says explicitly, and inferences drawn from the text. 
• Use key ideas and details from the text to infer the main idea or central theme. 
• Understand and explain the point of view in a text. 
• Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics. 

Reading Summer Suggestions:

• Read every day! Continue to track the books you finish. How many different genres can you read in one summer?
• Set a goal for how many books you will read this summer. See how close you can get – or maybe you’ll even pass it!
• Go to the library weekly! If you don't have your library card, get it! (And join their Summer Reading Challenge!)
• Read a variety of types of texts! Don't forget non-fiction (memoir, biography, historical, current events news articles) and poetry.

Writing Goals: 

• Determine and use the best or most relevant evidence from a text to support answers to text-based questions. Provide context for each piece of evidence. Connect evidence to answer to fully prove answer. (RACE) 
• Write informative, persuasive and argumentative essays that include an introduction, at least three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Identify a claim and strong reasons to support the claim. Use best or most relevant evidence from the text to support reasons. Explain how evidence supports claim and reasons.  
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events. Introduce characters and a clear plot sequence. Connect the characters and plot by effectively using dialogue and transition words. 

Writing Summer Suggestions:

• Create a journal and write about your summer
• Research a topic online and create a persuasive speech
• Practice your RACE responses using independent reading book