6th Grade Report Overview

The grade 6 Fishtank Plus ELA materials meet the expectations for alignment. The materials include anchor texts that are well-crafted, award-winning texts from multiple perspectives that are content-rich with ideas, events, and experiences. The questions and tasks in the materials require careful examination of texts over the course of a school year and relate to the essential questions of each unit. 

Throughout the program, students have the ability to engage in fruitful discussions and to practice their writing skills. Students engage in all forms of writing, although the writing types do not reflect the distribution of text types expected by the standards. The materials include limited explicit instruction for all the grade-level grammage usage standards but do include multiple opportunities for students to engage in guided vocabulary instruction. 

The grade 6 materials include core and supplemental texts organized around the topic or theme of “coming of age” to build students’ ability to read and comprehend texts independently and proficiently. The program includes culminating tasks that allow students to demonstrate knowledge of the unit topics and themes by integrating reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills.

The pacing guide and the implementation schedule provided may be reasonably completed in a school year because there are fewer lessons provided than average school days, allowing teachers the freedom to add re-teach lessons or extend others.