rQA CURRICULUM

Sixth Grade

LANGUAGE ARTS

Developing foundational Reading and Writing language skills: ‎

  • Students should be able to read grade-level text fluently and with comprehension. They ‎should also be able to adjust their fluency based on the purpose of reading. ‎
  • Students should be able to write responses that demonstrate their understanding of ‎texts. They should also be able to use text evidence to support their responses.

MATH

The primary focal areas in Grade 6 are number and operations; proportionality; expressions, ‎equations, and relationships; and measurement and data. Students use concepts, algorithms, ‎and properties of rational numbers to explore mathematical relationships and to describe ‎increasingly complex situations.‎

SCIENCE

Sixth grade science will address the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) through the ‎following strands:‎

• Science investigation and reasoning
• Matter and energy
• Force, motion, and energy
• Earth and space
• Organisms and environments

SOCIAL STUDIES

Grade 6 Social Studies primarily focus on studying contemporary world societies across different ‎regions like Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, analyzing their cultures, governments, and ‎economies, and how historical events have shaped them today, including the influence of ‎individuals and groups on these societies: essentially, exploring the people, places, and societies ‎of the contemporary world. ‎

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