Sixth grade language arts skills

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Reading strategies Reading

Writing strategies Writing

Vocabulary Vocab

Grammar and mechanics Grammar

Reading strategies

A. Main idea

1
Determine the main idea of a passage

2
Combine main ideas from two texts

B. Theme

1
Match the quotations with their themes

2
Determine the themes of short stories

C. Author's purpose and tone

1
Identify the author's purpose

2
Which sentence is more formal?

3
Compare passages for tone

D. Author's perspective

1
Determine the author's point of view

E. Text structure

1
Compare and contrast in informational texts

2
Match causes and effects in informational texts

3
Match problems with their solutions

4
Identify text structures

F. Literary devices

1
Identify sensory details

2
Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source

3
Interpret figures of speech

4
Classify figures of speech

5
Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

G. Analyzing literature

1
Identify the narrative point of view

2
Draw inferences from literary texts

3
Analyze short stories

4
Label the rhyme scheme

H. Analyzing informational texts

1
Read about animals

2
Read about famous places

3
Read about business and technology

4
Read about science and nature

5
Read about history

I. Analyzing arguments

1
Trace an argument

J. Novel study

1
Analyze passages from The Lightning Thief: Part 1

2
Analyze passages from The Lightning Thief: Part 2

3
Analyze passages from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Part 1

4
Analyze passages from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Part 2

5
Analyze passages from Esperanza Rising: Part 1

6
Analyze passages from Esperanza Rising: Part 2

K. Nonfiction book study

1
Analyze passages from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Part 1

2
Analyze passages from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Part 2

3
Analyze passages from I Am Malala: Part 1

4
Analyze passages from I Am Malala: Part 2

L. Comparing texts

1
Compare information from two texts

2
Compare two texts with different genres

M. Visual elements

1
Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects

2
Read graphic organizers

Writing strategies

N. Expository writing

1
Order topics from broadest to narrowest

2
Organize information by topic

3
Remove the sentence that does not belong

O. Persuasive and opinion writing

1
Distinguish facts from opinions

2
Choose evidence to support a claim

3
Identify counterclaims

4
Classify logical fallacies

P. Descriptive and creative writing

1
Use personification

2
Create varied sentences based on models

3
Revise the sentence using a stronger verb

Q. Identifying text evidence

1
Identify supporting details in informational texts

2
Identify supporting details in literary texts

R. Writing clearly and concisely

1
Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

S. Editing and revising

1
Use the correct frequently confused word

2
Correct errors with frequently confused words

3
Correct errors with signs

4
Correct errors in everyday use

5
Suggest appropriate revisions

T. Research skills

1
Identify relevant sources

2
Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias

3
Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)

4
Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)

5
Identify and correct plagiarism

Vocabulary

U. Prefixes and suffixes

1
Words with pre-

2
Words with re-

3
Words with sub-

4
Words with mis-

5
Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-

6
Words with -ful

7
Words with -less

8
Words with -able and -ible

V. Greek and Latin roots

1
Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

2
Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

3
Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

4
Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

5
Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

W. Synonyms and antonyms

1
Choose the synonym

2
Find synonyms in context

3
Choose the antonym

4
Find antonyms in context

X. Homophones

1
Use the correct homophone

2
Which definition matches the sentence?

3
Which sentence matches the definition?

Y. Idioms and adages

1
Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1

2
Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1

3
Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2

4
Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2

Z. Word choice and usage

1
Describe the difference between related words

2
Positive and negative connotation

AA. Analogies

1
Analogies

2
Analogies: challenge

BB. Context clues

1
Find words using context

2
Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context

3
Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context

4
Use context to identify the meaning of a word

5
Use academic vocabulary in context: literary

6
Use academic vocabulary in context: informational

CC. Domain-specific vocabulary

1
Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures

DD. Reference skills

1
Alphabetical order

2
Use guide words

3
Use dictionary entries

4
Use dictionary definitions

5
Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

EE. Spelling

1
Learn to spell words with prefixes: ex-, in-, mid-

2
Learn to spell words with suffixes: -en, -ist

3
Spell words with affixes: review

4
Spell words with base elements: scribe, script, tract

5
Spell words with base elements: fer, port, struct

6
Spell words with base elements: review

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Learn to spell common words: set 1

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Learn to spell common words: set 2

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Spell common words: sets 1 and 2

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Learn to spell common words: set 3

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Learn to spell common words: set 4

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Spell common words: sets 3 and 4

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Spell common words: review sets 1–4

FF. Sentences, fragments, and run-ons

1
Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?

2
Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence

3
Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence

4
Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence

5
Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?

6
Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

7
Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?

8
Identify dependent and independent clauses

9
Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?

GG. Nouns

1
Identify common and proper nouns

2
Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y

3
Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y

4
Form plurals: review

5
Form and use plurals: review

6
Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives

7
Form the singular or plural possessive

8
Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

HH. Pronouns and antecedents

1
Identify pronouns and their antecedents

2
Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent

3
Identify vague pronoun references

4
Identify all of the possible antecedents

5
Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

II. Pronoun types

1
Choose between subject and object pronouns

2
Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"

3
Compound subjects and objects with pronouns

4
Use possessive pronouns

5
Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns

6
Use reflexive pronouns

7
Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?

8
Identify relative pronouns

9
Use relative pronouns: who and whom

10
Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that

JJ. Verb types

1
Identify main verbs and helping verbs

2
Identify transitive and intransitive verbs

3
Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns

4
What does the modal verb show?

5
Use the correct modal verb

KK. Subject-verb agreement

1
Use the correct subject or verb

2
Use the correct verb – with compound subjects

LL. Verb tense

1
Irregular past tense: review

2
Simple past, present, and future tense: review

3
Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

4
Use the progressive verb tenses

5
Form the progressive verb tenses

6
Choose between the past tense and past participle

7
Use the perfect verb tenses

8
Form the perfect verb tenses

MM. Adjectives and adverbs

1
Identify adjectives

2
Order adjectives

3
Identify adverbs

4
Use relative adverbs

5
Choose between adjectives and adverbs

6
Is the word an adjective or adverb?

7
Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives

8
Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst

9
Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs

10
Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst

NN. Prepositions

1
Identify prepositions

2
Identify prepositions and their objects

3
Identify prepositional phrases

4
Prepositions: review

OO. Direct and indirect objects

1
Is it a direct object or an indirect object?

PP. Conjunctions

1
Use coordinating conjunctions

2
Identify coordinating conjunctions

3
Identify subordinating conjunctions

4
Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

5
Fill in the missing correlative conjunction

QQ. Contractions

1
Pronoun-verb contractions

2
Contractions with "not"

RR. Punctuation

1
Commas with series, dates, and places

2
Commas with compound and complex sentences

3
Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters

4
Commas with coordinate adjectives

5
Commas: review

6
What does the punctuation suggest?

7
Commas with nonrestrictive elements

8
Use dashes

SS. Capitalization

1
Correct capitalization errors

2
Capitalizing titles

TT. Formatting

1
Formatting titles

2
Formatting and capitalizing titles: review

3
Formatting street addresses

4
Formatting quotations and dialogue