Class 6 English​

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• Reading strategies

 

• Main idea

  • Determine the main idea of a passage

• Theme

  • Match the quotations with their themes

  • Determine the themes of short stories

• Author's purpose and tone

  • Which sentence is more formal?

  • Compare passages for tone

  • Identify author's purpose

• Text structure

  • Compare and contrast in informational texts

  • Match causes and effects in informational texts

  • Match problems with their solutions

  • Identify text structures

• Literary devices

  • Interpret figures of speech

  • Classify figures of speech

  • Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

• Analysing literature

  • Analyse short stories

• Analysing informational texts

  • Read and understand informational passages

  • Trace an argument

• Comparing texts

  • Compare two texts with different genres

• Visual elements

  • Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects

 

• Writing strategies

 

• Organising writing

  • Order topics from broadest to narrowest

  • Organise information by main idea

  • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

• Developing and supporting arguments

  • Distinguish facts from opinions

  • Choose evidence to support a claim

  • Identify supporting details in informational texts

  • Identify supporting details in literary texts

  • Identify counterclaims

• Creative techniques

  • Use personification

• Editing and revising

  • Use the correct frequently confused word

  • Correct errors with frequently confused words

  • Suggest appropriate revisions

• Research skills

  • Identify and correct plagiarism

 

• Vocabulary

 

• Prefixes and suffixes

  • Words with pre-

  • Words with re-

  • Words with sub-

  • Words with mis-

  • Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-

  • Words with -ful

  • Words with -less

  • Words with -able and -ible

• Greek and Latin roots

  • Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

  • Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

  • Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

  • Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

  • Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

• Synonyms and antonyms

  • Choose the synonym

  • Find synonyms in context

  • Choose the antonym

  • Find antonyms in context

• Homophones

  • Use the correct homophone

  • Which definition matches the sentence?

  • Which sentence matches the definition?

• Shades of meaning

  • Describe the difference between related words

  • Positive and negative connotation

• Analogies

• Analogies

  • Analogies: challenge

• Context clues

  • Find words using context

  • Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context

  • Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context

  • Use context to identify the meaning of a word

  • Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures

• Reference skills

  • Alphabetical order

  • Use guide words

  • Use dictionary entries

  • Use dictionary definitions

  • Use thesaurus entries

 

• Grammar and mechanics

 

• Sentences, fragments and run-ons

  • Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?

  • Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence

  • Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence

  • Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence

  • Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?

  • Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

  • Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?

  • Identify dependent and independent clauses

  • Is the sentence simple, compound or complex?

• Nouns

  • Identify common and proper nouns

  • Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y

  • Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y

  • Form plurals: review

  • Form and use plurals: review

  • Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives

  • Form the singular or plural possessive

  • Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

• Pronouns and antecedents

  • Identify pronouns and their antecedents

  • Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent

  • Identify vague pronoun references

  • Identify all of the possible antecedents

  • Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

• Pronoun types

  • Choose between subject and object pronouns

  • Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me'

  • Compound subjects and objects with pronouns

  • Use possessive pronouns

  • Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns

  • Use reflexive pronouns

  • Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?

  • Identify relative pronouns

  • Use relative pronouns: who and whom

  • Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that

• Verb types

  • Identify main verbs and helping verbs

  • Identify transitive and intransitive verbs

  • Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns

  • What does the modal verb show?

  • Use the correct modal verb

• Subject-verb agreement

  • Use the correct subject or verb

  • Use the correct verb – with compound subjects

• Verb tense

  • Irregular past tense: review

  • Simple past, present and future tense: review

  • Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

  • Use the progressive verb tenses

  • Form the progressive verb tenses

  • Choose between the past tense and past participle

  • Use the perfect verb tenses

  • Form the perfect verb tenses

• Adjectives and adverbs

  • Identify adjectives

  • Order adjectives

  • Identify adverbs

  • Use relative adverbs

  • Choose between adjectives and adverbs

  • Is the word an adjective or adverb?

  • Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives

  • Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst

  • Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs

  • Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst

• Prepositions

  • Identify prepositions

  • Identify prepositions and their objects

  • Identify prepositional phrases

  • Prepositions: review

• Conjunctions

  • Use coordinating conjunctions

  • Identify coordinating conjunctions

  • Identify subordinating conjunctions

  • Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

  • Fill in the missing correlative conjunction

• Contractions

  • Pronoun-verb contractions

  • Contractions with 'not'

• Punctuation

  • Commas with compound and complex sentences

  • Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters

  • Commas with coordinate adjectives

  • What does the punctuation suggest?

  • Commas with non-restrictive elements

  • Use dashes

• Capitalisation

  • Correct capitalisation errors

  • Capitalising titles

• Formatting

  • Formatting titles

  • Formatting and capitalising titles: review