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Class 6 English​

  • 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

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