The instructional materials reviewed for Grade 6 do not meet the expectations for spending the majority of class time on the major cluster of each grade. Ninety-five of the 150 teaching days, or 63% of the lessons and six of the 12 units, are devoted to the major work of the grade. Based on the pacing in both the scope and sequence and the curriculum guide, 95 of the 150 teaching days and/or 63% of the lessons and performance tasks are spent on the major work of the grade.

Performance tasks are evenly distributed between major work and supporting opposed to focusing on the major topics.

Two tasks are on major (Units 2 and 5).

Two tasks are not on major topics (Units 8 and 11).

The instructional materials reviewed for Grade 6 do not meet the expectations for the amount of content designated for one grade level being viable for one school year in order to foster coherence between grades. Teachers would have to find outside resources for re-teaching and/or more practice of skills. Overall, the amount of content that is designated for this grade level is not viable on its own for one school year.

The provided material would be able to be completed in one school calendar year. However, teachers would need to find outside resources for re-teaching or more practice of skills.

There are generally at least 180 school days in a school year. The suggested time for teaching this content in Grade 6 is 150 teaching days.

●      The 150 days include instruction, quizzes, tests and performance tasks. That would leave approximately 30 days of instruction unaccounted for. It would be typical to lose a few days to standardized testing or special school activities.

The instructional materials reviewed for Grade 6 do not meet the expectations for the material to be consistent with the progressions in the standards. However, the content from prior grades is not clearly identified, nor are connections to future grades. Overall, the materials develop but do not clearly identify the progressions from prior grades in the standards.

• Materials do develop according to the grade-by-grade progressions. However, content from prior or future grades is not clearly identified.
• The closed caption dialogue for the instruction and summary videos contains no mention of grade level.
• Learning goals for the lessons are not connected to any other lesson.

The instructional materials reviewed for Grade 6 do not meet the expectation of giving all students extensive work with grade level problems. Overall, the materials do not consistently give students of varying abilities extensive work with grade level problems.

• The lessons do not differentiate for lower ability or advanced learners.
• There is one lesson per learning goal and one assignment for each lesson. There are no materials available for re-teaching or additional practice for any of the skills.

The instructional materials reviewed for Grade 6 do not meet the expectation of relating grade level concepts explicitly to prior knowledge from earlier grades. No references or connections are made for the teacher or the student. Overall, materials do not relate grade-level concepts explicitly to knowledge from earlier grades.

• Materials do not relate new content to previously taught content.
• The closed caption dialogue does not make reference or connections to previously taught content for the student or the teacher.
• There are no direct connections between the lessons within a unit.