This sixth grade daily language spiral was designed to help you fit all the foundational pieces of writing into your already crammed language arts block. This daily ELA warm-up helps students focus on grammar, editing, and word analysis in short focused chunks.
By Friday, your students will have mastered the week's focus skills, meaning Friday's work can be used as an assessment to help you identify areas your students may need more support.
Your download includes:
✔ 36 weeks (180 days) of standards-aligned spiraled language arts practice sheets
✔ At-a-glance scope & sequence for easy planning & prep
✔ Answer keys
The 6th Grade Daily Language Spiral Review includes:
1) Student-friendly formatting
- Clear, easy to read 6th-grade language arts practice
- Skills repeat in varied formats for the whole week to build confidence
- Weekly reflection to encourage goal setting and metacognition
- Provided as a 1-page printable each week
2) Approachable practice with key grade-level language standards:
- Parts of speech - nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns
- Subjects & Predicates - simple vs. complex & revising sentence fragments
- Conjunctions & Compound Sentences
- Word Analysis & Spelling - prefixes, suffixes, Greek & Latin roots
- Figurative language - idioms, allusion, personification, and analogies
- Editing - including run-on sentences, compound sentences, conjunctions, commas in a series, dialogue, direct address, titles of books, possessives, commonly misspelled words, homophones, and more
- Revising - adjusting to add vivid verbs, adding details to create interest, combining and separating sentences to engage the reader
3) Teacher support materials
- Scope & sequence
- Answer Keys for all problems
- Tips for preparation and implementation
Way to Use this Language Spiral Review
- Digital classrooms or for home learning
- Interactive whiteboard or projector during whole or small group writing instruction
- Projected as a warm-up or bellringer
- Test prep
- Homework
Benefits of the Language Spiral Format:
❑ Daily practice builds routine and structure for practice
❑ Less overwhelming to reluctant or struggling learners
❑ Helps identify students who may need additional support
❑ Encourages discussion about skills & strategies
Here's what teachers & homeschoolers say about this Language Spiral:
♥ Can I just say WOW! This is such a great resource and it serves my writing class as a great bellringer and skills builder. It is interactive and allows the students to become more familiar with Google slides. Loving this and is worth every penny! - Alfonso M.
♥ This is amazing! We have covered so many different topics already this year that it took forever to get to last year. Thank you! - Mary S.
♥ Other morning work I have purchased takes my students too long to complete. My school serves breakfast, which takes some students a while to finish, and it always seems like I have a thousand things to do in the morning. I love how this resource offers the chance to review essential skills without taking 20 minutes. Thanks!! - Hannah N.
♥ This resource has been fantastic to use with my students in distance learning. I am so impressed with the formatting of the slides. I love how the concepts are reinforced M-F. I use these daily as warm-ups for ELA. They have also helped me identify some areas that my students needed more support in, such as understanding parts of speech, that I might not have known about had we not done these daily warm-ups. I will be using these with my class again next year even though we will be in person! – Nicole H.
♥ These are amazing! I started using them halfway through the year when I found this resource since my other daily entry wasn't working. It connects great with the growth mindset activities I've been starting to incorporate into the classroom! Thank you for this great, confidence-building activity for my students to engage in each day! :) - F.F.
♥ “I love this and have been using it all year, the students quickly fall into a routine and do the work. At the beginning of the week, I often explain what some of the questions are about, but that is teaching! I have planned my grammar unit around this resource so we are learning verbs etc when the daily work is asking us for it – Kariann J.
♥ “This is a wonderful source that engages my students while slowly building from the activities prior. It breaks down the standards needed and it even provides a teacher outline so you can map out the future. It love this resource and would 10/10 recommend!!”
- Amanda H.
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Terms of Use: This purchase grants single-classroom or family homeschool use. Special pricing is available for multiple licenses. If you are purchasing this for an entire grade, school, or district, please feel free to reach out to me directly at rebecca@differentiatedteaching. to get a custom quote.
