📚 Grade 6 English Language Arts: how to help at home

What each unit covers

1. 🧠Learning to Learn

   Practises using prior knowledge, asking open-ended questions, making connections, adjusting reading rate, and choosing and tracking learning goals.

2. 📖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.

3. 📚Text Features & Forms

   Practises text features such as the table of contents, index, glossary, captions and diagrams, the names of common text forms, and subject-specific vocabulary.

4. 👁️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.

5. 🎨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.

6. 🎭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.

7. 🌱Roots & Analogies

   Using Greek and Latin roots (like “geo,” “aud” and “port”) to work out unfamiliar words, and completing analogies that compare word relationships.

8. 🎬Media, Bias & Diversity

   Practises how multimodal texts combine modes, how audience and purpose shape a text, and how to notice bias, stereotypes, inclusion and equity in texts.

9. 🔎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.

10. 📝Plan & Organize Writing

    Practises choosing a focused topic for an audience, planning with organizers, using organization patterns such as cause and effect, and building introductions, paragraphs and conclusions.

11. 📣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.

12. 🤝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.

13. 🧩Commas & Clauses

    Finding dependent clauses, telling simple, compound and complex sentences apart, and using commas in lists, compound sentences, introductions and appositives.

14. 🔧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.