Sixth Grade - ELA
1: Environment and Cycles
Unit 2: The People of Sparks
Lesson 4
The Disaster
The lesson defines an antecedent and instructs students to make sure pronouns show correct number and gender. Activity 2 directs students to circle pronouns, underline their antecedents, and rewrite sentences if the pronouns and antecedents do not agree. The Student Activity Page and Answer Key provide several example sentences and corrections (e.g., changing "it" to "them," and "their" to "his") that require students to identify antecedents and correct mismatches.
Lesson 6
Flags
Students are asked to fill in blanks with pronouns of the correct case and to identify the case for each pronoun on the "Cases of Pronouns" activity page, providing practice with antecedents and pronoun selection. In Option 2 students correct incorrect sentences, record the antecedent, and supply the corrected pronoun (e.g., "The bike belongs to she." → "The bike belongs to her." with antecedent Lina). The answer key for Option 2 explicitly lists corrections and identifies the antecedent for each sentence, requiring students to link pronouns to their antecedents.
Lesson 9
Conflict
The Combining Sentences activity instructs students to "Use pronouns to effectively combine them" and "Use pronouns when possible." The student directions repeat: "Combine the sentences below into one sentence. Use pronouns when possible." The Parent Plan provides model combined sentences that replace repeated nouns with pronouns (e.g., "they," "he").
2: Force and Power
Unit 3: Number the Stars
Lesson 7
Run!
Students learn and use the editing abbreviation "Pron" to mark pronoun problems and are asked to edit a paragraph using that abbreviation. The student activity includes specific pronoun errors for students to correct (e.g., "Her and Ellen" marked Pron and "no one had it harder then them" marked Pron). The answer key shows teacher-corrected examples where students are expected to identify and fix pronoun issues.
3: Change
Unit 1: Tuck Everlasting
Lesson 10
The Water and the Toad
Students are asked to identify pronouns and other parts of speech in Activity 1 (Part I lists sentences where underlined words are identified, and Part II has students decide which kind of pronoun is used). The answer key explicitly labels pronouns and pronoun types (e.g., interrogative, indefinite, demonstrative), showing students practice classification of pronouns.
Unit 2: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Lesson 11
Trouble
The Student Activity Page lists a "Pronoun problem" proofreading symbol and shows an example of how to mark pronoun issues. The Editing and Revising activity instructs students to use the editing symbols page to correct their rough drafts. The Student Activity Page provides examples demonstrating each proofreading symbol's use in context, including the pronoun marker.
