6th Grade Digital License - Preparing for the South Carolina READY Text-Dependent Writing Assessment

This Argumentative Writing Test Prep product includes 24 lessons and has been created specifically to support South Carolina sixth-grade teachers as they prepare students for the SC READY Text-Dependent Writing Task.

These lessons are an excerpt from the Top Score Writing Grade 6 curriculum, which contains 103 daily writing lessons. The full curriculum teaches four genres of writing: foundational non-text-based expository writing, text-based informative/expository writing, text-based opinion/argumentative writing, and narrative writing. As the SC READY requires students to write only one type of essay in 6th grade, an argumentative essay, this product includes only the lessons students need to master that specific writing genre and succeed on the state assessment.

Lessons 47-70 are included because they are the Section 2 lessons of the full curriculum that explicitly teach argumentative writing from start to finish. These lessons walk students through brainstorming and organizing their thinking, creating strong claims, and learning to support them through text evidence. Through explicit instruction, modeling, and guided practice, students will learn to write effective introductions and conclusions, develop body paragraphs, and use a variety of elaborative techniques. All lessons are aligned with the skills required to excel on the Text-Dependent Writing Task in the SC READY.

The purpose of this resource is to provide a streamlined, high-impact way for teachers to prepare students for the test in a short amount of instructional time. By using these targeted lessons, teachers can confidently ensure students receive the practice, structure, and support needed to be fully prepared and ready to succeed on the SC READY writing assessment.