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In Acellus Grade 6 Language ArtsReading, Ms. Dara Oswald leads students to discover the basic elements of literature in a variety of literary and informational texts. She helps students to look for key ideas and reinforcing details in literature and then learn how to effectively communicate ideas in their own work. The course provides review and practice of the conventions of standard English in grammar, spelling, and vocabulary. This course was developed by the International Academy of Science. Learn More Unit 1 – Short Story – Elements This unit discusses the short story, including characterization and character traits, conflict, point-of-view, plot, making predictions, narrative, and summarization. The poem is also discussed, and comparing and contrasting genres. Pronoun types, pronoun shifts, and intensive pronouns are also covered, as well as using writing to show, not to tell. Unit 2 – Vocabulary Building Strategies This unit discusses the short story, Lomax, including word impact on meaning and tone, and scene to overall structure. Also covered are denotation and connotation, synonyms, antonyms, using a Frayer Model, words with multiple meanings, prefixes, suffixes, and word roots. Also included are spelling tips, and context clues including definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and examples. Unit 3 – Reading for Meaning This unit covers the genres folktale, fable, and myth. It uses the folktale The Fox and the Crow to illustrate theme and discusses reading graphic stories and using inference and conclusions. It uses the story of The Three Little Pigs to illustrate perspective and comparing and contrasting genres, and uses the essay Eulogy of a Dog to discuss vocabulary, authors purpose, and persuasive techniques. In addition, the biographical story, Corrie ten Boom is used to illustrate tone. Unit 4 – Figurative Language and Narrative Writing This unit discusses poetry, including alliteration, similes, metaphors, rhyme and rhythm, and personification. Also covered are onomatopoeia in graphic stories, and vocabulary, hyperbole, and idiom in drama, as well as preview in narrative writing, laying the groundwork, story development, details – including parentheticals and nonrestrictive elements – and how to conclude a story well. Unit 5 – Reading for Information This unit discusses informational versus narrative text, as well as sequence, description, and comparingcontrasting in an essay; causeeffect, problemsolution, main idea, supporting details, factopinion, and summarization in an article; and comparing and contrasting authors in biography and autobiography. Unit 6 – Argument and Persuasion This unit discusses argument, including what an argument is, claim and evidence in an article, comparing and contrasting author implications through photos, discussion types, and five discussion steps. Unit 7 – Real-World Reading Skills This unit discusses text features, skimming, scanning, commonly-confused words, dictionary skills, combining sentences, conjunctions, sentence fragments, commonly misspelled words, subject-verb agreement, end-of-sentence punctuation, commas, apostrophes, titles, number, and capitalization. Unit 8 – Informative Writing This unit discusses traits of formalized writing, the four-square writing approach for formatting a paper, choosing a topicmain idea, adding supporting details to a paper, writing a thesis, adding supporting details to paragraphs, adding transition words and personal stories, writing an introduction, hooking your readers, writing a conclusion, and drafting and finalizing your paper. Unit 9 – Reading Across Genres This unit uses the short story Shooting Stars to discuss vocabulary, setting, shades of meaning, imagery, motivation, actions, and relationships. It also covers verb tense; action, helping, and linking verbs; and integrating information. Unit 10 – Research and Persuasion This unit discusses researching a topic and writing a persuasive essay, including identifying your topic, doing research and gathering information, and reflecting on new information. It further covers planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing, and presenting a persuasive essay. Your first section Acellus Academy collaborates with highly qualified teachers to develop course materials that keep online students on track with their peers in traditional classroom settings. We offer remedial and special education courses, so students can get extra help when they need it and progress through lessons at their own pace.All courses that are available to sixth grade students have important objectives and learning outcomes that they must attain before moving on to higher-level units and courses. In their sixth grade courses, students learn:Mathematical computation, proportions, equations, functions, and statistics.Basic elements of literature and comprehension of a variety of literary works as well as effective communication of their own work.Concepts and theories related to astronomy, physics, and earth science.World history and geography involving pre-civilization, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, world religions, and much more!Sixth grade students who take a foreign language learn vocabulary, verb conjugation, numbers, greetings, and basic conversation. They also gain exposure to various cultures whose native language is the one they are learning.For more information about the courses available to sixth grade students as well as the goals for each course, visit our course overviews. Acellus Academys courses are designed to give each student a personal learning experience. The courses use the Acellus Learning Accelerator, which tailors course content to each students learning needs. Prism Diagnostics and Vectored Instruction technologies detect holes in a students background knowledge of a topic and provide the necessary resources for children when necessary.Students access all their courses through the Acellus App, which uses a student interface that is easy to navigate. Here, students attend class and complete coursework, while the technology tracks their progress and performance. Parents can enroll their sixth grade students in Acellus Academy year-round. Our open enrollment policy does not constrain families to a certain time frame. Once parents complete the online admissions process, students can begin their Acellus courses right away.

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