Literacy × Math · Grade 6
Reading + Math Lessons
Stories with the math woven right in. Students read, answer embedded comprehension questions, stop to solve real problems, and write about the math using leveled sentence starters. Each lesson comes in a scaffolded ESOL track and a challenge Enrichment track, and every page can be printed or downloaded as a DOC for turn-in.
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🥭 Mia's Mango Smoothies
Two cousins run a smoothie stand using ratios, equivalent ratios, and unit rates. Scaffolded for ESOL with key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 sentence starters.
Enrichment · 6.RP.1–3📈 Scaling the Smoothie Business
The challenge track: multi-step part-to-whole ratios, comparing suppliers by unit rate, percent profit margins, and proportional scaling — with inference questions and analytical writing.
ESOL · 6.G.1🌻 The Class Garden
A class designs a school garden using area of rectangles, triangles, and composite figures. Scaffolded for ESOL with figures, key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 sentence starters.
Enrichment · 6.G.1🏞️ Designing the Community Park
The challenge track: trapezoid and composite area, comparing designs by cost, and working backward to find a missing dimension — with inference questions and analytical writing.
ESOL · 6.NS.1🧁 Bita's Bakery
Bita fills bakery orders by dividing fractions — counting scoops, cookies, shares, and a mixed-number batch. Scaffolded for ESOL with key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 sentence starters.
Enrichment · 6.NS.1👩🍳 The Catering Kitchen
The challenge track: dividing mixed numbers, interpreting remainders in context, and multi-step recipe planning — with inference questions and analytical writing.
ESOL · 6.RP.3c🛍️ The School Store Sale
Sara shops a back-to-school sale using percent of a number, discounts, sale price, sales tax, and a tip. Scaffolded for ESOL with key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 starters.
Enrichment · 6.RP.3c🛒 The Pop-Up Shop
The challenge track: markup, discount-then-tax, comparing a percent deal to a flat deal, and percent change — with inference questions and analytical writing.
ESOL · 6.SP🏀 Coach Dana's Team Stats
A coach studies game scores using mean, median, mode, and range. Scaffolded for ESOL with key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 sentence starters.
Enrichment · 6.SP🔎 The Data Detective
The challenge track: mean vs. median with outliers, mean absolute deviation, and comparing data sets by spread — with inference questions and analytical writing.
ESOL · 6.EE.1–2🎮 Maya's Game Studio
Maya builds a game using exponents, writing and evaluating expressions, and order of operations. Scaffolded for ESOL with key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 starters.
Enrichment · 6.EE.1–4🕹️ Building the Score Engine
The challenge track: the distributive property, evaluating expressions with exponents, and combining like terms — with inference questions and analytical writing.
ESOL · 6.EE.7🛹 Saving for a Skateboard
Leo solves one-step equations (add, subtract, multiply, divide) using inverse operations to reach a savings goal. Scaffolded for ESOL with key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 starters.
Enrichment · 6.EE.5–8🎟️ The Fundraiser Goal
The challenge track: writing and solving one-step equations, verifying by substitution, and using an inequality for an "at least" goal — with inference questions and analytical writing.
ESOL · 6.NS.5–7🤿 Captain Mia's Submarine
A submarine dive introduces integers, absolute value, comparing negatives, and opposites. Scaffolded for ESOL with key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 sentence starters.
Enrichment · 6.NS.6–8🧭 The Coordinate Rescue
The challenge track: ordering integers, absolute-value comparisons, distance between grid points, and reflecting across an axis — with inference questions and analytical writing.
ESOL · 6.G.2📦 Sam's Moving Day
Sam packs boxes using volume of rectangular prisms (V = l × w × h), unit cubes, and a cube. Scaffolded for ESOL with key-word preview, read-aloud, and Level 1 & 2 sentence starters.
Enrichment · 6.G.2 · 6.G.4🐠 The Aquarium Build
The challenge track: volume with fractional edges, surface area of a closed box, and the glass area of an open-top tank — with inference questions and analytical writing.
Complete Set
Every Grade 6 Topic, Two Tracks Each
Each topic will get a paired ESOL and Enrichment reading lesson — for example: Fraction Division, Percents & Discounts, Area & Design, Expressions, Equations, Statistics, Integers & the Coordinate Plane, and Volume. Each keeps the same structure: a real story, embedded comprehension checks, Solve-It math stops, leveled writing, a rubric, and HTML + DOC output.
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