Know Your Texts: Strategies for Reading and Writing Texts Grade 6 Complete Pack

Know Your Texts is a grade 6 classroom resource that focuses on developing students’ knowledge of text structures to improve their comprehension and writing skills.

Know Your Texts goes beyond investigating text structures to include morphology, vocabulary development, background knowledge, reading
comprehension, spelling rules and generalizations, word study, fluency, language conventions, and writing.

The 88-page Student Book focuses on 4 text
structures: narrative, informational, persuasive, and poetry. Each unit includes an overview to
introduce the students to the characteristics of
the focus text structure, followed by selections
that allow students to apply their learning while reading and writing.

This resource prioritizes the inclusion of
Canadian content and selections created by diverse authors, Indigenous authors, and student voices to ensure students can see
themselves in the pages of the Student Book.

Teacher’s Guide provides:
• Explicit instruction for each text structure
• Support to develop comprehension skills, vocabulary, and background knowledge
• Instructional support for fluency, spelling rules and generalizations, word study, language conventions, and writing

Companion Website for Teachers includes additional instructional tools:
• Projectable versions of each text for instruction and shared reading
• Second version of text highlights unit focus
• Printable activities
• Word lists
• Mini-lessons for oral language strategies, comprehension strategies, writing, syllable patterns, morphology, vocabulary and word study, literary devices, punctuation, and grammar
• Assessment tools
• Instructional Framework

-10 88-page Student Books
-Teacher's Guide
-Companion Website for Teachers