Grade 6 English Language Arts
10 units matched to the Saskatchewan Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Language Arts”.
Strands and outcomes
- Comprehend and Respond (CR6.1–CR6.8): View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address identity (e.g., Growing Up)… Select and use appropriate strategies to construct meaning before, during, and after (e.g., drawing conclusions)… Use pragmatic (e.g., function and purpose of texts), textual (e.g., form/genre, sequence of ideas), syntactic… (and 5 more outcomes)
- Compose and Create (CC6.1–CC6.9): Create various visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore identity (e.g., Your Choices), social… Select and use the appropriate strategies to communicate meaning before (e.g., identifying purpose and audience)… Use pragmatic (e.g., function and purpose), textual (e.g., paragraphs), syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological… (and 6 more outcomes)
- Assess and Reflect on Language Abilities (AR6.1–AR6.3): Consider which viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing strategies work best for each task… Appraise own viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing skills and strategies, and set goals… Appraise own and others' work for clarity. Units Going the Distance Growing Up Messages Peace And Conflict Taking…
Units
Unit 1
Close Reading
Reading original stories and information texts, then finding the theme or main idea, making inferences, explaining why characters act as they do and choosing the sentence that best supports an answer.
Outcome: CR6.6 · reading and interpreting grade-level texts
Unit 2
Point of View
Telling first person, third person limited and third person omniscient apart, and thinking about what each narrator can and can't know.
Outcome: CR6.6 · narrator and point of view
Unit 3
Figurative Language
Naming similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration and idioms, explaining what they mean, finding the sense an image appeals to and working out what a symbol stands for.
Outcome: CR6.6 · figurative language and imagery
Unit 4
Connotation & Tone
Words can share a dictionary meaning (denotation) but carry different feelings (connotation), like “cozy” and “cramped.” Students choose words for effect and identify a writer's tone.
Outcome: CR6.6 · connotation and tone in texts
Unit 5
Sources & Bias
Separating fact from opinion, judging whether a source is reliable, spotting loaded words and one-sided reporting, and asking who made a message and why.
Outcome: CR6.7 · sources, evidence and bias in information texts
Unit 6
Roots & Analogies
Using Greek and Latin roots (like “geo,” “aud” and “port”) to work out unfamiliar words, and completing analogies that compare word relationships.
Outcome: CR6.3 · word roots and analogies
Unit 7
Make Your Case
Building an argument: stating a claim, choosing the strongest evidence, recognizing counterarguments and rebuttals, spotting persuasive techniques and ordering a persuasive paragraph.
Outcome: CC6.7 · writing to persuade
Unit 8
Agreement
Making verbs agree with their subjects (even with tricky phrases, “each,” “everyone” and “either…or”) and choosing pronouns that clearly match the nouns they replace.
Outcome: CC6.3 · subject–verb and pronoun agreement
Unit 9
Sentence Repair
Spotting sentence fragments, run-on sentences and comma splices, and choosing correct ways to fix them with periods, semicolons, joining words or dependent clauses.
Outcome: CC6.3 · fixing fragments and run-ons
Unit 10
Commas & Clauses
Finding dependent clauses, telling simple, compound and complex sentences apart, and using commas in lists, compound sentences, introductions and appositives.
Outcome: CC6.3 · commas and clauses
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