SOCIAL STUDIES READING AND WRITING ACTIVITIES

SOCIAL STUDIES READING AND WRITING

ACTIVITIES

CORRELATED TO THE SOCIAL STUDIES

COMPETENCY-BASED CURRICULUM

GRADE 6 GEOGRAPHY

Division of Social Sciences Miami-Dade County Public Schools

The School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida

Mr. Frank J. Bola?os, Chair Dr. Robert B. Ingram, Vice Chair

Mr. Agustin J. Barrera Ms. Evelyn Langlieb Greer Ms. Perla Tabares Hantman

Dr. Martin Karp Ms. Ana Rivas Logan

Dr. Marta P?rez Dr. Solomon C. Stinson

Ms. Arielle Maffei Student Advisor

Dr. Rudolph F. Crew Superintendent of Schools

Ms. Antoniette P. Dunbar Deputy Superintendent

Curriculum, Instruction, and School Improvement

Dr. Daniel Tosado

Assistant Superintendent Secondary Curriculum and Instruction

Mr. John R. Doyle Administrative Director Division of Social Sciences

SOCIAL STUDIES READING AND WRITING ACTIVITIES

The Division of Social Sciences has developed this reading and writing activity packet to provide support for social studies teachers with instructional program delivery including enrichment activities for addressing the Reading Sunshine State Standards Benchmarks.

The activity packet contains the following:

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Matrix containing listing of activities with correlations to the Social Studies

Competency-Based Curriculum and the tested Reading Sunshine State

Standards Benchmarks;

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Readings with follow up questions and activities correlated to the Social

Studies Competency-Based Curriculum and the tested Reading Sunshine

State Standards Benchmarks;

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Scoring Rubric for Short Response Tasks;

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Grade 6 Social Studies Competency-Based Curriculum for Geography;

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Social Studies Topics for FCAT, Grades 6-8;

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Reading Content Assessed by FCAT and Item Formats by Benchmark,

Grades 6-8;

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FCAT Reading Performance Task Specifications for Grades 6-8; and

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Sample sixth Grade Reading Passages from Florida DOE with Benchmark

Clarification Follow-up.

READING ACTIVITY OVERVIEW

Page

Lesson

CBC Component/ Competency/ Objective

Sunshine State Standards Reading

Benchmark

1

Americans All

VA7

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.2.7, LA.A.2.3.2

7

The Aral Sea Calamity IVA2, VIA2, VIA3, LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.3.1,

VIA4

LA.E.2.2.1

13

Birthplace of Three

Religions

IC7, VA3, VA5

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.2.7

18

Changing Their World

IIA6, VA2, VIA2

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.3.2

23

Confucius: Teacher and IIA2

Statesman

LA.A.1.3.2., L.A.A.2.2.7

30

Easter Island

IC7, IIA5, IVA2, VA2

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.3.5,

37

Famine Strikes Across VIA1, VIA2, VIA3 LA.A.2.3.8, LA.E.2.2.1

Ethiopia

44

Fighting Back - Apartheid IIA6, IVA4, VA6

LA.A.2.2.7

Hard at Work - Many

51

Kids in Ecuador Go to

IVA4, VIA3

Work Instead of School

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.3.2, LA.A.2.2.2

58

Mozart's Vienna

IIA2, IIA3, VA5

L.A.A.1.3.2, L.A.A.2.3.2

64

On Top of the World

IC9, VA2

LA.A.1.3.2

70

Paradise Lost

lC3

LA.A.1.3.2

74

Peacekeeping in

Oceania

VIA2, VIA3

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.3.1

80

Snow and Ice Sculpting VA2, VA4

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.2.7

84

State of Emergency

Declared for the

Galapagos

IC1, VIA2, VIA4

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.E.2.2.1

91

Stonehenge

IIA1

LA.A.1.3.2

FCAT-Style Reading and Writing Activities in Social Studies. Developed by the Division of Social Sciences.

Page

Lesson

96

Thin Ice? Scientists

Explore the Causes of

Antarctica's Melting Ice

103 Tsodilo Hills - Myth and Mystery

111 Volcanoes - The Fire Below

117 Western State Wages War Against... SNOW

CBC Component/ Competency/ Objective

Sunshine State Standards Reading

Benchmark

IC3, VIA2

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.3.2, LA.E.2.2.1

IB2, IIA1, IIA2, VA2 LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.2.7, LA.A.2.3.2

lC1

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.3.2,

LA.A.2.3.8

IC1, VIA4

LA.A.1.3.2, LA.A.2.3.5, LA.E.2.2.1

FCAT-Style Reading and Writing Activities in Social Studies. Developed by the Division of Social Sciences.

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