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Unit 1 Concept Map 

6​th​
​ ​ Grade ELA 

Unit/Topics:​​ ​Good readers use strategies to enable them to understand and read deeply.  
 
Unit Essential Questions: 
-How do you use reading strategies and literary devices to enhance reading comprehension? 
-How do writers respond to and use literary devices in their writing? 
 
Concepts: 
Students will know: 
-Reader’s Purpose: Readers adjust their strategies based on their purpose for reading: reading for pleasure vs. 
reading for academics. 
-Writer's Purpose: Writers adjust their strategies based on their purpose for writing: writing for pleasure vs. writing for 
academics. 
-Author's Purpose: Authors make choices in order to convey a purpose. 
-Plot: Knowing the text structure of fiction stories allows readers to comprehend and predict an outcome. 
-Character Development: Understanding character development allows the reader to connect, analyze, and enjoy 
the changes of characters in a story. 
-Figurative Language: Figurative language is used by authors to enable the reader to create connections and mental 
images in the story. 
-Theme: Readers will use theme to understand the "big picture" of a piece of literature. 
-Narrative: Writers use literary devices in order to write a narrative. 
 
Skills: 
Students will be able to: 
-Use reading strategies (annotating, connecting, clarifying, evaluating, predicting, questioning, summarizing, 
visualizing) to enhance comprehension based on purpose. 
-Use writing strategies (pre-writing/brainstorming, graphic organizers, writing checklists) to enhance a written piece 
based on purpose. 
-Interpret the author's choices in the text.. 
-Diagram the plot and analyze a fictional story by detecting the literary elements and support with evidence from the 
text. 
-Identify a character trait and use methods of character development to support and draw conclusion about the 
character. 
-Identifying types of figurative language, provide evidence from the text to support why it is figurative language and 
interpret the meaning of the figurative language. 
-Cite textual evidence to support analysis of an inferred theme. 
-Write a narrative using literary devices. 
 
Key Vocabulary: 
-annotating, connecting, clarifying, evaluating, predicting, questioning, summarizing, visualizing 
-pre-writing/brainstorming, graphic organizers, writing checklists 
-plot, exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution 
-character trait, thoughts, actions, dialogue 
-personification, simile, metaphor, idiom, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, alliteration 
-topic sentence, evidence & explain, concluding sentence 
-subject word, theme, evidence 
 
Key Lesson Questions 
-How do you use reading strategies to enhance comprehension based on purpose? 
-How do you use writing strategies to enhance a written piece based on purpose? 
-How do you interpret the author's choices in order to understand their purpose?  
-How do you recognize the elements of plot and analyze a piece of literature using the elements? 
-How do you cite evidence from the text to support conclusions drawn about the characters? 
-How do you identify and interpret figurative language? 
-How do you cite evidence from the text to support conclusions drawn about the theme of a text? 
-How do you write a narrative? 

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