Essential English Skills for 6th Graders

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January 10, 2025

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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