Free Homeschool Sixth Grade Curriculum

Old Time Education Sixth Grade Curriculum

In addition to the "3 R's" - reading, writing, and [a]rithmetic - more subjects are added to the later grades.

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English

McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader - second half of book

• Reading - how to use the 3rd Reader
• Writing - using copywork for penmanship

Math

Ray's New Practical Arithmetic - second half of the book
Key to Ray's New Arithmetics

Science
Free Story-book of Science - last 1/3 of the book

Social Studies
50 Famous Stories Retold

Free Homeschool Fifth Grade Curriculum

Old Time Education Fifth Grade Curriculum

In addition to the "3 R's" - reading, writing, and [a]rithmetic - more subjects are added to the later grades.

I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post.

English

McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader - first half of book

• Reading - how to use the 3rd Reader
• Writing - using copywork for penmanship

Math

Ray's New Practical Arithmetic - first half of the book
Key to Ray's New Arithmetics

Science
Free Story-book of Science - second 1/3 of the book

Social Studies
50 Famous People Retold

How to Use McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader

McGuffey's Third Reader

In this book, lessons of the same instructive character as those in the Second Reader are continued, but the thought is usually deeper, keeping pace with the development of the child's mind.

It is not thought necessary to tabulate new words in a vocabulary beyond the middle of this book. By this time, the children should be able to pronounce at sight such new words as are introduced. In place of the vocabularies, therefore, definitions of the most difficult words in each lesson are given, with diacritical marks to aid in pronunciation. These definitions are necessarily not exhaustive, — that definition only is given which is applicable to the word in connection with the context. The teacher should not confine the class to the words defined in the Reader, but should teach the class how to use the dictionary, and require pupils to consult it in studying their lessons whenever a word is encountered, the meaning of which is not perfectly clear.

As recommended in the Preface, there should be a daily drill on articulation, and exercises for this purpose are presented in the Introduction.

It is thought unnecessary to give detailed instructions as to particular lessons in this book. It will be seen that the lessons furnish abundant opportunities for practical composition work, which should be kept up till the end. How suggestive for composition, for example, is Lesson XXXI.

The above text is reprinted from "The Eclectic Manual of Methods for the Assistance of Teachers."