6th Grade

Resources to Guide and Assess Nonfiction Reading/Thinking\Writing Aligned with Common Core Standards

One-Page Readings

These passages are listed at their readability level according to the Fry formula.
However, you may want to use a reading from an earlier grade level because the
formula does not factor in conceptual difficulty of a text.

Before Chicago infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago's First Leader

The Early Chicago Environment and People classify information and summarize a nonfiction topic 

Election Choices infer and support the main idea of a passage

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

Inferential Questions: Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech

Labor Day Address--Barack Obama Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage

Learn about Zambia infer and support the main idea of a passage

Nutrition Lesson evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Plants and Food infer and support the main idea of a passage

Prairie Ecology evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Prairie Ecology with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Settlement analyze information in a nonfiction text

Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Seasons on the Prairie infer and support the main idea of a passage

Seasons on the Prairie with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Traveling West infer and support the main idea of a passage

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