Grade 6 - Perfection Learning

2 Writing About Literature: Drafting 272
3 Writing About Literature: Revising 274
In the Media: Movie Criticism 275
4 Editing and Publishing a
Literary Response 276
The Language of Power: Past Tense 276
Using a Six-Trait Rubric: Literary Response 278
Writing a Book Report 279
Think Critically: Summarizing 281
Writing Lab 282
Common Core
State Standards Focus
U n i t
3
Research and 284
Report Writing
12 Research: Planning and
Gathering Information 286
Writing Project: An American Wonder
Research Report 286
Writing a Research Report: Planning 291
1 Structure of a Report 291
2 Choosing and Limiting a Subject 292
3 Developing Research Questions 293
Writing a Research Report: Gathering
Information 294
1 Finding Sources 294
In the Media: News Stories 296
2 Evaluating Sources 297
Writing a Research Report: Taking Notes 299
Writing Lab 302
W.8 Gather relevant
information from multiple
print and digital sources;
assess the credibility of
each source; and quote or
paraphrase the data and
conclusions of others while
avoiding plagiarism and
providing basic bibliographic
information for sources.
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