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Gateway Ratings Summary
ELA 6th Grade Overview
The grade 6 Fishtank Free ELA materials do not meet the expectations for alignment. While the materials include anchor and supporting texts that vary in complexity and support students’ literacy growth over the course of the school year, the teacher resources and supports are general and do not change as texts and tasks become more complex. Explicit instruction throughout the materials is lacking, specifically in vocabulary, writing, and grade-level grammar and usage standards.
The grade 6 materials include core and supplemental texts organized around the topic or theme of “coming of age” to promote knowledge building. While the majority of tasks and assessment questions are aligned with the grade-level standards, the materials provided are high-level lesson skeletons that can not be used for instruction to fully meet the grade-level standards.
The pacing guide and the implementation schedule provided may be reasonably completed in a school year because there are fewer lessons provided than average school days, allowing teachers the freedom to add re-teach lessons or extend others.