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Sixth Grade Overview

Time4Learning is popular as a Sixth grade homeschool curriculum, for afterschool enrichment, for remediation, and as a summer school alternative.

For Sixth graders, Time4Learning provides language arts, math, science, and social studies.

Time4Learning is an online student-paced learning system covering preschool through middle school.

Sixth Grade Language Arts and Reading

The sixth grade language arts program focuses on the various components of reading, comprehension, listening, speaking, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and writing through literature-based chapters and language based-chapters. Students begin with five thematic units, integrating reading excerpts with comprehension skills, writing responses, and additional vocabulary and syntax lessons. Additional resources and extension activities are found within the teaching guides and lesson plans (accessible through the parent administration page.) See Lesson Plans

To enhance cross-curricular applications, sixth graders move on to reading and vocabulary skills, focusing on subject-specific vocabulary in the areas of: technology, language arts, science, and art. Language–based chapters culminate with activities in accurate reading, speaking, listening, and writing across various genres of literature, progressing to the development of different styles and techniques of writing. See Lesson Demos

Students learn to brainstorm, write sequentially and clearly, and take notes using graphic organizers. The writing process expands to teach students how to create a play, a fictional story, a response to literature, an autobiography, and poems. The Odyssey Writer prompts students to use multi-media in their research, to include dialogue, to form an audience and purpose, and to apply the writing process of plan-draft-write-revise-edit-print- and share.

Many parents have expressed interest in purchasing the full versions of the authentic literature excerpted in the Language Arts section. They can be purchased at the links below but they DO NOT need to be purchased in order to use Time4Learning.

• The Lost Garden by Lawrence Yep
• Far North by Will Hobbs
• Growing Up in Coal Country. by Susan Campbell
• Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty
• Poems By Langston Hughes

Sixth Grade Vocabulary

Going beyond traditional vocabulary lists, many of Time4Learning’s sixth grade vocabulary exercises are integrated within five literature based units that promote a variety of language skills, including reading comprehension and vocabulary building. Resources provided include vocabulary graphic organizers and printable vocabulary worksheets. Ten concentrated study units present topical vocabulary word lists, such as math vocabulary and science vocabulary. Animated vocabulary lessons build on the student’s knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, Latin and Greek roots, idioms, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms.

Sixth Grade Math

The sixth grade math curriculum teaches new concepts to students through interactive, online lessons in six major units of study: Number Sense, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis, and Probability. Teaching Guides with answers and connection lessons are available to parents for extension activities. 6th Grade Math Lesson Plans

In the Number Sense unit, sixth graders will learn to define absolute values, work with integers, use prime factorization, and understand the relationship between fractions and decimals. Multi-step problems and mental computation will expand upon algebraic functions, inequalities, and linear equations. Demo Lessons

Sixth grade math broadens geometry and measurement instruction with lessons in spatial reasoning, geometric modeling, and coordinate geometry. 6 th graders will understand and apply the attributes of length, weight, and capacity in both the customary and metric systems, with particular focus in perimeter, area, and volume. The sixth grade curriculum finishes with students collecting, organizing, and interpreting data through surveys, tables, graphs, and formulas. Online Algebra is available upon request.

Sixth Grade Science

The sixth grade science curriculum begins with a unit on scientific processes, inclusive of; scientific discoveries, technology, ethics, safety procedures, and experiments. Five main units follow, concentrating on properties of matter, characteristics of plants, energy, electricity, and the solar system. Sixth Grade Science Lesson Plans

Through online science lessons, 6 th grade students explore the necessities for plant survival, photosynthesis, the vascular systems, and specific functions of plant parts. Students will move forward to energy, and force and motion concepts, including; the study of sources and types of energy, fossil fuels, and the laws of motion.

6 th grade science continues to concentrate on electromagnetism through online learning activities on the law of magnetism, natural magnetic minerals, electricity from magnetism, and generators. Sixth grade science ends with interactive lessons on the human body and mind. Science Lesson Demos

Sixth Grade Social Studies

The sixth grade social studies curriculum teaches concepts of; Early Civilizations, Western Development, The Industrial Revolution, Immigration to America, Geography, Political Science, and the Economic System through interactive online lessons. 6th Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans

Sixth graders begin with studies on the early civilizations of India, Rome, Islam and Africa, with students learning about the growth of government, culture, religion and trade. United States history expands to include activities on settling the west, life during the 1800’s, and overseas expansion. Further concepts on politics, economics, and civics are covered in the latter part of the 6 th grade social studies curriculum.

6th Grade Lessons - Time4Learning's Program Structure

Time4Learning provides an interactive student paced curriculum. When the student logs in, they can choose which subject to study. The lessons are organized into units which include multimedia lessons, interactive exercises, printable worksheets for reinforcement, optional parent-teaching guides (with answer keys for the printable worksheets in math) for more indepth work, assessments, a complete printable lesson plan, and online progress reports.

Reports/ Assessments/ Printable Worksheets. Time4Learning understands the importance of tracking student progress.  Sixth grade assessments and quizzes are given throughout the chapters and are automatically graded upon completion.  Parents are able to access the grades and assignments in the reports section by using their own logins and passwords.  The reports section is printable, as are the lessons plans. In addition Time4Learning provides Sixth grade printable worksheets. Parental support is also given through our online parents forum where discussions and questions may be posted amongst experienced users and those that are "just looking".

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