English Language Arts-VI
Master advanced Grade 6 English skills with AHSEdu.org! Explore engaging lessons in reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and comprehension. Students practice figurative language, synonyms and antonyms, essay writing, narrative writing, identifying themes, analyzing main ideas, and using context clues. Designed to strengthen critical thinking and build strong middle school literacy skills.
Course Topic
A1_Identify the main idea of a passage
B1_Interpret and classify figures of speech
B2_Analyze the effect of figures of speech on meaning and tone
C1_Analyze short stories
D1_Read and comprehend informational passages
D2_Trace an argument in informational texts
E1_Match quotations with their themes
E2_Identify themes in short stories
F1_Identify the more formal sentence
F2_Compare passages to determine tone
F3_Identify the author’s purpose and point of view
G1_Compare and contrast in informational texts
G2_Match causes and effects in informational texts
G3_Match problems with solutions and identify text structures
H1_Compare illustrations in literary and historical subjects
I1_Compare texts from different genres
J1_Use the correct frequently confused word
J2_Correct errors with frequently confused words
K1_Identify and correct plagiarism
L1_Recognize words with pre-, re-, sub-, mis-
L2_Recognize words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, non-
L3_Recognize words with -ful, -less, -able, -ible
M1_Order topics from broadest to narrowest
M2_Organize information by topic
M3_Use conjunctive adverbs as transitions
N1_Distinguish facts from opinions
N2_Choose evidence to support a claim
N3_Identify supporting details in informational and literary texts
N4_Identify counterclaims
O1_Use personification
P1_Choose the correct synonym or antonym
P2_Identify synonyms and antonyms in context
Q1_Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to meaning
Q2_Use words as clues to identify roots
Q3_Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
R1_Describe differences between related words
R2_Identify positive and negative connotations
S1_Use the correct homophone
S2_Match definitions to sentences
S3Match sentences to definitions
T1_Find words using context clues
T2_Determine meaning using synonyms and antonyms in context
T3_Use context to identify the meaning of a word
T4_Determine domain-specific word meanings with picture clues
U1_Complete analogies
V1_Put words in alphabetical order
V2_Use dictionary entries
V3_Interpret dictionary definitions
V4_Use thesaurus entries
W.1_Identify common and proper nouns
W2_Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, y
W3_Review plural formation
W4_Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives
W5_Correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
X1_Identify sentence types: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory
X2_Identify the complete subject or predicate
X3_Identify the simple subject or predicate
X4_Identify compound subjects and predicates
X5_Distinguish complete sentences from fragments
X6_Distinguish complete sentences from run-ons
X7_Identify dependent and independent clauses
X8_Identify simple, compound, and complex sentences
Y1_Choose between subject and object pronouns
Y2_Use I and me in compound subjects/objects
Y3_Use pronouns in compound subjects and objects
Y4_Use possessive pronouns
Y5_Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
Y6_Use reflexive pronouns
Y7_Distinguish reflexive and intensive pronouns
Y8_Identify relative pronouns
Y9_Use who and whom correctly
Y10_Use relative pronouns (who, whom, whose, which, that)
Z1_Identify pronouns and their antecedents
Z2_Use pronouns that agree with antecedents
Z3_Identify vague pronoun references
Z4_ Identify possible antecedents
Z5_ Correct inappropriate pronoun shifts
A1_ Use the correct subject and verb
A2_ Use the correct verb with compound subjects
B1_ Identify main verbs and helping verbs
B2_ Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
B3_ Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns
B4_ Identify what modal verbs show
B5_ Use the correct modal verb
C1_ Identify adjectives
C2_ Order adjectives correctly
C3_ Identify adverbs
C4_ Use relative adverbs
C5_ Distinguish between adjectives and adverbs
C6_ Decide if a word is an adjective or adverb
C7_ Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
C8_ Use good, better, best and bad, worse, worst correctly
C9_ Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
C10_ Use well, better, best and badly, worse, worst correctly
D1_ Review irregular past tense
D2_ Review simple past, present, and future tenses
D3_ Correct inappropriate verb tense shifts
D4_ Use and form progressive tenses
D5_ Distinguish between past tense and past participle
D6_ Use and form perfect tenses
E1_ Identify and use coordinating conjunctions
E2_ Identify subordinating conjunctions
E3_ Use correlative conjunction pairs correctly
E4_ Fill in missing correlative conjunctions
F1_ Identify prepositions
F2_ Identify prepositions and their objects
F3_ Identify prepositional phrases
G1_ Use commas in compound and complex sentences
G2_ Use commas with direct address, introductory words, interjections, interrupters
G3_ Use commas with coordinate adjectives
G4_ Use commas with non-restrictive elements
G5_ Use dashes
H1_ Use pronoun-verb contractions
H2_ Use contractions with not
I1_ Format titles correctly
I2_ Review formatting and capitalization of titles
J1_ Correct capitalization errors
J2_ Capitalize titles correctly
