Please find the following "I Can Statements" from our Grade 6 Curriculum that we will be covering from now until the end of June. There will be a focus on Language Arts and Math with some Social and Science integrated into Language Arts.
Please let me know if you have any questions,
Vanessa Blyth
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Language Arts Grade 6 
I Can Statements 
General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences. 
Ø  I can read, write, and talk to explain my prior knowledge connections to new information. 
Ø  I can use talk, writing, reading, and others’ ideas to understand. | 
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General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts. | 
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Ø  I can combine personal experience with new ideas when I read see or hear. | 
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Ø  I can use a variety of strategies to help me read and understand new words. | 
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Ø  I can read from a variety of genres and cultures. | 
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Ø  I can summarize what I read, see and hear. | 
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Ø  I can connect events, characters, and settings when I summarize. | 
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Ø  I can explain the reasons for a character’s actions or feelings. | 
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Ø  I can draw conclusions related to events, characters, setting, and main idea. | 
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2.3 Understand Forms Elements and Techniques | 
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Ø  I can identify and talk about the similarities and differences between different types of readings. | 
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Ø  I can identify the main problem in things I read, see and hear. | 
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Ø  I can explain how conflict is resolved in things I read see or hear. | 
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2.4 Create Original Text | 
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Ø  I can choose forms of writing and ideas and details that match audience and purpose in my own writing. | 
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Ø  I can use my own experiences to find ideas for writing. | 
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General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication. | 
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4.1 Enhance and Improve | 
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Ø  I can ask for and use feedback about my writing from others. | 
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Ø  I can narrow down or expand ideas in my writing. | 
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Ø  I can delete unnecessary information. | 
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Ø  I can make sure the verb tense and pronouns are correct. | 
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Ø  I can use paragraphs in fiction and non-fiction writing. | 
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Ø  I can choose words that are just right for my audience and purpose. | 
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Ø  I can play with different parts of my writing like sentence structure and word choice to choose the best way to communicate. | 
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Ø  I can write clearly and legibly. | 
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4.2 Attend to Conventions | 
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Ø  I can edit my writing for commonly misspelled words. | 
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Ø  I can attend to grammar. | 
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Ø  I can attend to capitalization and punctuation. | 
Mathematics   Grade 6
I Can Statement
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GENERAL OUTCOME:  Numbers | 
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Develop Number Sense | 
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Ø  I can explain how the pattern of the place value system makes it possible to read and write numerals for numbers of any size. | 
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Ø  I can solve problems that involve whole numbers and decimals. | 
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Ø  I can solve a problem involving factors and multiples. | 
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Ø  I can provide concrete or visual representation for ratio. | 
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Ø  I can explain, verbally, concretely or pictorially that percent means out of 100. | 
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Ø  I can solve problems that involve multiplication and division of decimals using multipliers from 0 to 9 and divisors from 1 to 9. | 
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GENERAL OUTCOME:  Patterns and Relations | 
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Ø  Use patterns to describe the world and to solve problems. | 
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Ø  I can identify the unknown in a problem and represent the problem. | 
 
 
 
 
 
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