November 20, 2024

6th grade English topics and Resources


  The 6th grade English student:

  •  Increases word concepts—antonyms, synonyms, homophones, and heteronyms.
  • Reviews nouns—common, proper, compound, singular, plural, possessive; and learns about collective nouns and nouns in apposition.
  • Expands verb knowledge (action, linking, state-of-being, regular and irregular) to include verb tenses (present, past, future), and conjugation of all six tenses; verb agreement; and the review of troublesome verbs (learn/teach, sit/set, lay/lie, rise/raise).
  • Identifies pronouns—personal (subjective and possessive), interrogative, demonstrative, relative, reflexive, and indefinite.
  • Builds upon parts of speech—comparisons using adjectives and adverbs, prepositions and phrases, coordinating conjunctions, interjections, and diagramming.
  • Strengthens sentence writing by using sentence patterns, interesting words, and exact nouns; recognizes subject and verb agreement; and types of clauses.
  • Practices writing paragraphs and begins outlining and research.
  • Uses simple, compound, and compound-complex sentences with effective coordination and subordination of ideas to express complete thoughts.
  • Learns to identify types of sentence patterns and clauses.

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