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📖 6th Grade · ELASL.6.1Unit 1: Reading identity & citing evidence

Discussion norms

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🎯 Objective: Students prepare for and participate in discussions, following norms.

Lesson outline

  1. Set norms.
  2. Fishbowl.
  3. Reflect.
  4. Exit: one norm you used.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

SL.6.1

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Cite textual evidence to support analysis
  • Engage in collaborative discussions

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 6th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Reading identity & citing evidence”

  1. Who am I as a reader?
  2. Citing evidence
  3. Discussion norms

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