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Grade 5 English Language Arts · Level 6, Grade 6 Bridge — Easy Only

Bridge: Build a Grade 6 Explanation

Begin selecting and organizing relevant content using definition, classification, comparison, or cause/effect structures.

How the lesson starts: Bridge: Build a Grade 6 Explanation

1. The Museum of Everything

   Welcome to the Museum of Everything! Curator Pax is an octopus with a thousand facts. Her secret? She never dumps facts in a pile. She picks the right room, the right structure.

2. Four rooms

   Cause and effect explains why or how something happens. Compare and contrast shows how two things are alike and different. Definition and examples tells what something is. Sort into kinds shows the types.

3. Pax thinks aloud

   Topic: why leaves change color in fall. Pax spots the word why. Then the notes: shorter days make trees stop making green, so hidden yellows show through. Each note causes the next. Cause and effect! Watch out: story arc and opinion belong to other wings.