Literacy Activities and Resources

6th Grade - Timeless Treasures
Theme 2 - Friends to the Rescue

Theme 2 Pre- and Post-Assessments
Skills Based Activities
  
Literary Response and Analysis

Narrative Elements
-Purpose of Setting
-Identifying the Purpose of the Setting
-Sensing the Setting
 
Literary Devices
-Figurative Language
-Figurative Langauge
-Figurative Language Quiz
-Similes
-Similes and Metaphors
-Metaphors and Similes
-Eye on Idioms
 
Summarize and Paraphrase
-BrainPOP Paraphrasing Video
-Summary Writing

Harcourt Online Student Page

Key:

Resources by Story
 
Number the Stars
- Vocabulary Quiz
- Comprehension Quiz
- Literature Response 
 
The Summer of the Swans
 - Vocabulary Quiz
- Comprehension Quiz
- Literature Response 
 
Old Yeller
- Vocabulary Quiz
- Comprehension Quiz
- Literature Response 
 
Trapped by the Ice!
- Vocabulary Quiz
- Comprehension Quiz
- Literature Response 
 
Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi
- Vocabulary Quiz
- Comprehension Quiz
- Literature Response 

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Christy Grossnickle, Lynette Nield
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Liza Richards, Jacinta Sorgel
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