Dear Parents,
Please find the following "I Can Statements" from our Grade 6 Curriculum that we will be covering from now until the end of June. There will be a focus of Language Arts and Math with some Social and Science integrated into Language Arts.
Please let me know if you have any questions,
Mrs. Laurie Reeve
Language Arts Grade 6
I Can Statements
General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
Ø I can read, write, and talk to explain my prior knowledge connections to new information.
Ø I can use talk, writing, reading and others’ ideas to understand.
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General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts.
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Ø I can combine personal experience with new ideas when I read see or hear.
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Ø I can use a variety of strategies to help me read and understand new words.
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Ø I can read from a variety of genres and cultures.
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Ø I can summarize what I read, see and hear.
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Ø I can connect events, characters, and settings when I summarize.
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Ø I can explain the reasons for a character’s actions or feelings.
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Ø I can draw conclusions related to events, characters, setting, and main idea.
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2.3 Understand Forms Elements and Techniques
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Ø I can identify and talk about the similarities and differences between different types of readings.
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Ø I can identify the main problem in things I read, see and hear.
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Ø I can explain how conflict is resolved in things I read see or hear.
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2.4 Create Original Text
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Ø I can choose forms of writing and ideas and details that match audience and purpose in my own writing.
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Ø I can use my own experiences to find ideas for writing.
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General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
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4.1 Enhance and Improve
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Ø I can ask for and use feedback about my writing from others.
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Ø I can narrow down or expand ideas in my writing.
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Ø I can delete unnecessary information.
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Ø I can make sure the verb tense and pronouns are correct.
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Ø I can use paragraphs in fiction and non-fiction writing.
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Ø I can choose words that are just right for my audience and purpose.
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Ø I can play with different parts of my writing like sentence structure and word choice to choose the best way to communicate.
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Ø I can write clearly and legibly.
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4.2 Attend to Conventions
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Ø I can edit my writing for commonly misspelled words.
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Ø I can attend to grammar.
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Ø I can attend to capitalization and punctuation.
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Mathematics Grade 6
I Can Statement
GENERAL OUTCOME: Numbers
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Develop Number Sense
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Ø I can explain how the pattern of the place value system makes it possible to read and write numerals for numbers of any size.
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Ø I can solve problems that involve whole numbers and decimals.
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Ø I can solve a problem involving factors and multiples.
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Ø I can provide concrete or a visual representation for ratio.
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Ø I can explain, verbally, concretely or pictorially that percent means out of 100.
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Ø I can solve problems that involve multiplication and division of decimals using multipliers from 0 to 9 and divisors from 1 to 9.
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GENERAL OUTCOME: Patterns and Relations
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Ø Use patterns to describe the world and to solve problems.
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Ø I can identify the unknown in a problem and represent the problem.
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