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. Both the language arts and math curriculum both correlate to state standards.
Time4Learning is an online student-paced learning system covering preschool through middle school.
Sixth Grade Learning Objectives
While in sixth grade, a student should master the prerequisites for attaining success in the seventh grade language arts, reading and mathematics curriculum.
By the end of any sixth grade language arts and reading program, students should be able to write clear and focused essays. These essays include: narrative, expository, persuasive and informative writing. Sixth grade students should read with expression and fluency. They should be able to interpret figurative language while reading. Sixth grade students should be reading for enjoyment.
For details about sixth grade writing standards, please visit Time4Writing.com.
At the end of any sixth grade mathematics program, students should understand, compare and order positive and negative fractions, decimals and mixed numbers. They should solve problems using fractions, ratios, and percentages. They should be able to write and evaluate simple algebraic expressions and should be familiar with the commutative, associative and distributive properties. Fifth grade students should have had many occasions to measure plane and solid shapes and compute the range, median, mode, and mean of various data sets.
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.
Sixth Grade Vocabulary
Going beyond traditional vocabulary lists, many of the Time4Learning 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 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. 6th graders will understand and apply the attributes of length, weight, and capacity in both the customary and metric systems, with particular focus on 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, including 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, 6th 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.
Sixth 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 including Early Civilizations, Western Development, The Industrial Revolution, Immigration to America, Geography, Political Science, and the Economic System through animated, interactive online lessons. 6th Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans
Sixth graders begin with studies on the early civilizations of India, Rome, Islam and Africa, covering concepts such as 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 6th 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".
Help your child succeed with our interactive curriculum. There are thousands of activities, lessons and assessments that will keep your child enthusiastic about learning.
In sixth grade, the children can access the Time4Learning online playground. The online playground includes over 100 carefully selected games. Some are fun action games, others are learning games but unlike the lessons, they are entirely exploratory. There is also a playground timer controlled by the parents to limit how long they spend in the playground. While useful to many families, the use of the timer is optional.
Sixth Grade Interactive Curriculum by Time4Learning for Homeschooling, After School, or Summer School Use
Time4Learning is used as a homeschool curriculum, an after-school tutorial, or as an excellent alternative to summer school. Time4Learning works well with other programs too, providing educational structure within the home. Learn more.
Many gifted and special needs students find Time4Learning to be an invaluable addition to their education. Time4Learning's benefits to special needs children stems from the freedom to progress at your own pace, to repeat lessons, the patience of the computer, and in many cases, the privacy of self-study on the computers. Parents particularly like that they can have a child working on different levels in different subjects and that as children progress, adjustments to the grade level are simple and cost-free.
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