Grade 6 · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 15
Plan & Organize Writing
Choose a topic, plan, and organize ideas in paragraphs.
What your child practises
Practises choosing a focused topic for an audience, planning with organizers, using organization patterns such as cause and effect, and building introductions, paragraphs and conclusions.
Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: ELA.6.C1.1, ELA.6.C1.2, ELA.6.C1.3, ELA.6.C2.1 · choosing a topic, planning, gathering information and organizing writing
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
A text that shows how frogs and toads are alike and different uses…
- cause and effect
- compare and contrast
- time order
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compare and contrast
Hint: Look for alike and different.
Question 2
Notetaking is best done…
- in your own words, with the key ideas
- by copying whole pages
- by drawing doodles only
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in your own words, with the key ideas
Hint: Short notes in your own words help avoid copying.
Question 3
Which text form fits writing to a friend who lives far away?
- A timeline
- A glossary
- A letter
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A letter
Hint: A letter has a greeting and a closing.
Question 4
Which words signal a chronological (time order) pattern?
- However, but, although
- First, next, then, finally
- Because, so, as a result
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First, next, then, finally
Hint: Time-order words show sequence.
Question 5
Supporting details in a paragraph…
- change the topic
- give facts, examples or reasons for the main idea
- should be left out
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give facts, examples or reasons for the main idea
Hint: Details back up the main idea.
Question 6
A writer wants to inform younger students about the water cycle. Which choice suits that audience?
- A poem with no facts
- Short sentences with simple words and a labelled picture
- Long technical terms with no pictures
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Short sentences with simple words and a labelled picture
Hint: Match the writing to the audience.