This is based on students' requests, students' needs and staffing. In grade 6, students master previously learned skills in increasingly complex presentations, reading selections, and written compositions. Sixth grade students take notes during oral presentations and organize and summarize spoken messages. Students recognize literary devices and use different forms of writing for specific purposes such as to inform, persuade, or express. Students use more complex punctuation and learn how to edit their writing based on the knowledge of grammar, usage, spelling, punctuation, and other conventions of written language.
Students produce final, error-free pieces of written compositions on a regular basis.
Gifted and Talented classes emphasize language study, problem solving, advanced reading and research. Students produce critical and creative products. Reading Sixth grade students read widely in classical and contemporary selections and informational texts. Students are able to understand idioms, multiple meanings of words and analogies in text. Student distinguish denotative and connotative meanings of words and use word origins as an aid to understand historical influences on word meanings.