Sixth Grade Reading Unit Bundle Ghost Freak the Mighty The Crossover Al Capone

This sixth grade reading unit novel study bundle includes 12 different reading units or novels studies for a total of 180+ lesson plans. These are exactly what you need to teach your sixth grade learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with a variety of genres.

Download the HUGE new preview to see what's included.

These go great with my literature and information interactive units:

• CCSS Literature Unit and CCSS Informational Unit.

Want your entire 6th grade curriculum done for you?

• Sixth Grade Reading Curriculum

Why buy the growing bundle?

• This HUGE bundle of reading units will increase in price each time I add a unit.
• The sooner you buy, the more you save!
• You will have access to EVERY unit I add to this growing bundle as they become available.
• Right now you are purchasing 10 reading units for 20% savings.

These resources have gotten HUGE updates (August 2020) since creation in 2015:

• Update: Teacher suggested answers for comprehension questions
• Update: Teacher suggested vocabulary words and definitions
• Update: PowerPoint and PDF Display slides for all Guiding and Interpretive Questions (JPEG images included to upload to Google Slides as well)
• Update: Digital Student Reading Response Notebooks
• Update: Editable PowerPoint Reading Response Rubrics
• Update: Editable Google Slides Reading Response Rubrics
• Update: Small group and individual conference teacher forms
• Update: Lesson plans and the Common Core standard alignments are their own file now so teachers can easily and quickly access the novel lessons.

Now included in a separate file for teachers:

• The Socratic Seminar: research base and strategy in practice
• Using this resource in your classroom
• Different reading workshop set-ups
• Scripted lesson examples
• Reading response notebook examples from my classroom

Included in this bundle:

1. Freak the Mighty (14 Lessons) Updated 2020
2. Al Capone Does My Shirts (16 Lessons) Updated 2020
3. The Maze Runner (26 Lessons) Updated 2020
4. The Crossover (14 Lessons) Updated 2020
5. The Giver by Lois Lowry (12 lessons) Updated 2020
6. A Long Walk to Water (12 Lessons) Updated 2020
7. The Finest Hours (12 Lessons) Updated 2020
8. Fever 1793 (16 Lessons) Updated 2021
9. Ungifted (18 Lessons) Updated 2020
10. Wonder by R.J. Palacio (22 lessons)
11. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (13 Lessons) Updated 2020
12. Ghost by Jason Reynolds (17 Lessons) Added 2021

In each unit you will find:

1. Lesson Plans Reading Unit (teacher suggested answers and vocabulary now included)
2. 40+ page Implementation Teachers Guide: Socratic Seminar, Tips and Tricks, Pacing, Student Examples, FAQs, scripted lesson examples, etc.
3. PowerPoint and PDF Display slides for all Guiding and Interpretive Questions (JPEG images included to upload to Google Slides as well)
4. Digital Student Reading Response Notebooks
5. Editable PowerPoint Reading Response Rubrics
6. Editable Google Slides Reading Response Rubrics
7. Small group and individual conference teacher forms
8. Bonus in some units: Classroom decorations, activities, and engagement ideas
9. Bonus in some units: Book Quote Posters

How are these reading units different?

• This unit digs deep into EVERY SINGLE common core reading literature and main writing standard.
• The backbone of these units is The Socratic Seminar, which pushes students to have discussions with their peers, about the novels (by using the guiding and interpretive questions provided) while using text-based evidence and critical thinking.
• Their thinking and discussion build a strong foundation of understanding for their reading responses (which will blow you away because of how much they grow throughout the year).
• This was designed when I had no reading or writing curriculum: I didn't want to just “hit” the standards. I wanted to dig deep into every single standard multiple times throughout the year.
• This unit teaches your students about every single fifth grade CCSS literature standard in an engaging, though-provoking, and fun unit and all the work is done for you.
• I still do guided reading, book clubs, literature circles, and Daily 5 in my classroom, so I know this can work with any type of reading program that you already have in place.
• In this unit, your students will get tons of support and conversations from their peers, will be exposed to literature and vocabulary at or above their grade level, and become part of a reading community. Yet it still gives you the flexibility to work with groups of students at their particular reading levels.

What is the difference between the curriculum bundles and the growing bundles?

• The growing bundle only has the novel reading units. It does contain all my 5th grade reading units (14 of them) or my 6th grade reading units (10 of them). Anytime I make a new reading unit, it will be added to the growing bundle.

• The curriculum has 10 pre-selected reading units (all genres) but also 40 lessons to teach literature terms and informational terms as well. Some people get the growing bundle (to have more options for reading units) and then purchase the literature and informational units separately! The curriculum does not get additional units added (it does get updates though!)

• If you are looking for your reading lessons and materials done for the year, then the curriculum. If you want more flexibility, get the growing bundle and then get the informational and literature units later if you need them.