Units of Study in Writing Grade 6 (2nd Edition)

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• Unit 1, Personal Narrative: Crafting Powerful Life Stories helps students write true stories, learning strategies to generate meaningful story ideas, manage pace, elaborate on important scenes, and deepen insights.

• In Unit 2, The Literary Essay: From Character to Compare/Contrast, sixth graders craft essays that make arguments about characters and themes, learning strategies essayists use to gather, analyze, and explain evidence from the text to support their claims.

• In Unit 3, Research-Based Information Writing: Books, Websites, and Presentations, sixth graders learn ways to research and write informational essays, books, and digital presentations or websites to teach their readers about a topic, using increasingly sophisticated ways to draw on and structure information to explain a position or make a call to action.