Reading

The 6th grade reading curriculum consists of three parts: 

1) Scott Foresman Reading Street series, 2) Various novels, 3) ISAT prep

  Reading Street  
"Mother Fletcher's Gift"

 by Walter Dean Myers

 

"Viva New Jersey" 

by Gloria Gonzalez

"Goodbye to the Moon"

 by Monica Hughes

 
"Space Cadets"

by David LaBounty

 

"Old Yeller"

by Fred Gipson

 

"Don Quixote and the Windmills"

by Eric A. Kimmel

 
"Egypt"

by Ann Heinrichs

 
"When Crowbar Came"

by Jean Craighead George

 

"When Marian Sang "

by Pam Munoz Ryan

 

"Learning to Swim"

by Kyoko Mori

 
 

"Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie"

retold by Joe Hayes

 

 
"River to the Sky"

retold by Kasiya Makaka Phiri

 
 

 

Novels We will read 1 novel each quarter!

1st quarter:

Hatchet

 

 by Gary Paulsen

2nd Quarter:

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

3rd Quarter:

Night of the Twisters

by Ivy Ruckman

 

4th Quarter:

Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt