In this lesson, students will dig deeper into the meanings of phrases in the stanzas of "If," a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Students will focus on recording notices and wonders about structure, puncutation, and word choice.

In this lesson, students complete a literary analysis on a Shakespearean Sonnet, understand the language that empowers the piece, and gain inspiration from Shakespeare's words to write their own sonnet.

Students will read a poem and analyze it for alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read "If," write to explain, read and analyze the text for character traits and vocabulary, write examples of figurative language, write quotes to support a main idea, and write a narrative. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description and example of personification. Students will then read sentences and determine if they include personification or not. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description, example, and explanation of personification. Students will then read phrases and write sentences that incorporate personification. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences to identify personification, read and write to complete sentences that include personification, and read ideas and write sentences that include personification. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description and an example of personification. Students will then read phrases and write words and paragraphs that use personification. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

What should a good narrative contain? For this lesson, a mystery, a type of narrative realistic fiction, will be composed. Since strong adjectives and adverbs will support a mystery, they will be incorporated into the writing.

Students will review parts of speech and figurative language using selected Christmas songs.

Poets achieve popular acclaim only when they express clear and widely shared emotions with a forceful, distinctive, and memorable voice. But what is meant by voice in poetry, and what qualities have made the voice of Langston Hughes a favorite for so many people?

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade English Language Arts. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade ELA.

This document lists the 300 most common English words for ESL students to study and learn.