Article of the Week Club, 6th Grade; Nonfiction Reading Passages Middle School

Article of the Week Club, Grade 6 (6th Grade Nonfiction Articles + Activities)

6th Grade Article of the Week Club is your solution for teaching ALL of the CCSS for Grade 6 Reading Informational Text! You’ll receive 25 nonfiction article + activity packs according to the schedule below. This includes a midterm and final assessment for reading informational text standards. Your students will enjoy practicing all of the common core reading informational text standards with these high-interest informational text passages.

The first article is FREE, so download yours today!

Each article + activity pack includes these components:

• original article written at the 6th grade level
• modified version of each article
• professional audio recording of each article and modified article
• editable version of all activities and assessments
• digital Google Slides version of all articles and activities
• self-grading Google Forms assessments (3 per article)

Each article + activity pack includes these activities:

Activity 1 - Literal Comprehension Check (multiple choice)

Activity 2 - Literal Comprehension Check (open-ended) (alternate option for Act 1)

Activity 3 - Text Evidence Practice (annotation version)

Activity 4 - Text Evidence Practice (multiple choice version) (alternate option for Act 3)

Activity 5 - Skills focus (focuses on one CCSS skill)

Activity 6 - Integrating Sources Activity

Activity 7 - Skills Test

Activity 8 - Modified Skills Test (alternate option for Act 7)

Articles Currently Available (Download Today!)

6-1: Skill RI.6.2 Central Idea and Details /Topic: Toys R Us: The End of An Era

6-2: Skill RI.6.2 Summarize /Topic: Overpopulation in China: China's One-Child Policy

6-3: Skill RI.6.3 Analyze Key Details in a Text /Topic: Competitive Eating: The World's Fast Eaters

6-4: Skill RI.6.3 Elaboration of Key Details /Topic: Supervolcano Lurking Beneath Yellowstone Park

6-5: REVIEW RI.6.2-RI.6.3 /Topic: Unbreakable: Navajo Code Talkers

6-6: Skill RI.6.4 Connotative & Figurative Meanings /Topic: Football vs. Fútbol (Soccer)

6-7: Skill RI.6.4 Connotative & Figurative Meanings /Topic: Halloween History

6-8: Skill RI.6.5 Analyze Text Structure /Topic: Underpopulation in Japan

6-9: Skill RI.6.5 Analyze Text Structure /Topic: The Golden Age of Radio

6-10: Skill RI.6.6 Author's Point of View & Purpose /Topic: Too Much Sugar

6-11: Skill RI.6.6 Author's Point of View & Purpose /Topic: Bullying

6-12: REVIEW RI.6.4-RI.6.5-RI.6.6 /Topic: The Harlem Renaissance

6-13: MIDTERM Assessment RI.6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 /Topic: Climate Change

6-14: Skill RI.6.8 Evaluate Arguments & Claims /Topic: Don't Shop, Adopt! Pet Adoption

6-15: Skill RI.6.8 Evaluate Arguments & Claims /Topic: UFOs

6-16: Skill RI.6.7 Integrate Information From Different Media /Topic: Screen Time

6-17: Skill RI.6.9 Compare & Contrast Two Authors' Presentation of Events / Topic: Human Computers

6-18: Skill RI.6.9 Compare & Contrast Two Authors' Presentation of Events (Biography and Autobiography Excerpt) / Topic: Frederick Douglass

6-19: REVIEW RI.6.7-RI.6.8-RI.6.9 / Topic: Chocolate!

6-20: Skill RI.6.1 Citing Text Evidence / Topic: SpaceX

6-21: Skills RI.6.5 and RI.6.6 / Topic: Who Were the Mayans?

6-22: Test Prep / Standardized Test Practice

6-23: End of the Year Review ESCAPE ROOM / Topic: The Dawn Wall of El Capitan

6-24: FINAL EXAM / Topic: Save the Bees

Schedule of Article Releases

(to be released)

6-25 (PRE ASSESSMENT) coming June

For details about which CCSS skills are included in which articles, check out this working Google Doc anytime for updates: https://goo.gl/2XNGQg

Topics are also added to this document as they are decided. Of course, topics and skills are always subject to change if needed.

Nonfiction Article of the Week Clubs are available for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades:

5th Grade Article of the Week Club

7th Grade Article of the Week Club

8th Grade Article of the Week Club