Books for Sixth Graders to Read
My kids read a lot of books. This page includes the favorite books of my eldest daughter when she was in sixth grade and I'll be adding the books my current 6th grade daugther will be reading this school year.
It is interesting watching 6th graders start to read series books. The twilight books and Harry Potter books are mostly all out, so they don't have to wait for the big release to read the next one.
Most of the books here, my wife has read alongside my daugthers. This provides a way to communicate any particular events that happened within the books.
I believe reading is by far the best way for children to learn, in fact, the better reader you are, normally the better learner you are as you tend to understand the things around you quicker. Readers are better test takers, as they can quickly grasp the question being asked and therefore understand how to answer the question. And of course, reading is fun.
How many books do your kids read in 6th grade?
On average per month
"6th graders draw conclusions, make critical judgments, and form unique interpretations"
Sixth Grade Reading Strategies
Strategies 6th graders should be trying to master
- Connecting Known to New - 6th grade readers activate relevant, prior knowledge (schema) before, during, and after reading text. Sixth graders use prior knowledge to build mental models to use to evaluate what they read.
- Ask Questions - 6th grade readers ask questions of themselves, the authors, and the texts they read. Sixth graders use their questions to clarify and to focus their reading.
- Determine Importance - 6th grade readers determine the most important ideas and themes in a text. Sixth graders use their conclusions about important ideas to focus their reading and to exclude peripheral or unimportant details from memory.
- Form Sensory Images - 6th grade readers create visual and other sensory images from text during and after reading. These images may include visual, auditory and other sensory connections to the text. 6th grade readers use these images to deepen their understanding of the text.
- Infer Meaning - 6th grade readers draw inferences from text. Sixth graders use their prior knowledge (schema) and textual information to draw conclusions, make critical judgments, and form unique interpretations from text. Inferences may occur in the form of conclusions, predictions, or new ideas.
- Synthesize Ideas - 6th grade readers retell and synthesize what they have read. Sixth graders attend to the most important information and to the clarity of the synthesis itself. They synthesize to better understand what they have read.
- Solve Reading Problems - 6th grade readers utilize a variety of fix-up strategies to repair comprehension when it breaks down. Sixth graders select appropriate fix-up strategies from one of the six language systems (pragmatic, schematic, semantic, syntactic, lexical, or grapho-phonic) to best solve a given problem in a given reading situation.
My 6th grader is currently reading...
39 Clues: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
The 39 Clues Book 1:The Maze of Bones
Amazon Price: $9.09 (as of 12/28/2009)
My daughter's favorite book in 6th grade
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
My daughter read the entire series in about 3 months and couldn't wait to finish the one she was on and read the next.
Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)
Amazon Price: $46.97 (as of 12/28/2009)
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Here are some titles of books my kids have read while in 6th grade. You can click on the links to see a full description at Amazon. You can vote for your favorite book by clicking on the up arrow.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling
The Deluxe Edition includes an exclusive insert fe more...1 point
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J. K. Rowling
We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate more...1 point
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J. K. Rowling
A special library binding for the Harry Potter ser more...1 point
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Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J. K. Rowling
A special library binding for the Harry Potter ser more...1 point
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
I say to you all, once again--in the light of Lord more...1 point
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter has to sneak back to Hogwarts, after more...1 point
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 1) by Ann Brashares
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't more...1 point
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Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul: 101 Stories of Courage, Hope and Laughter (Chicken Soup for the Soul) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap
A collection of short stories, anecdotes, poems, a more...1 point
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The Last Man's Reward (Albert Whitman Prairie Books) by David Patneaude
"Albert and his four friends are living in co more...1 point
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The 39 Clues Book 1:The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her w more...0 points
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Recommend a book for a 6th grader
What books have your kids read while in 6th grade? We would like to know so we have more birthday and christmas gift ideas.
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- dede smith dede smith Oct 29, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
- i was a sixesth grader last year and i liked most of those books
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Oct 21, 2009 @ 4:06 am
- When my kids were in 6th grade they also loved the Harry Potter series. My youngest read Inkheart. There were so many other books that they read at that age it is difficult to remember. We also read books aloud to eachother. One of our favorites was Swallows and Amazons about a family of 5 kids living on an island one summer and sailing back and forth on a lake to pick up supplies from the parent's summer cottage.
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- katie katie Aug 11, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
- I teach 6th grade Reading/ELA and I tried to think of some of the books that my last years kids really enjoyed...
The Phantom Tollbooth by: Norton Juster
Princess Academy by: Shannon Hale
The Westing Game by: Ellen Raskin
Fever 1793 by: Laure Halse Anderson
The Alex Rider series by: Anthony Horowitz
Stargirl, Love Stargirl, and Maniac Magee by: Jerry Spinelli
Number the Stars by: Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by: Robert C. O'Brien
Then of course Harry Potter, Twilight, Inkheart...
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- sam sam Jul 31, 2009 @ 5:20 am
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