📚 Grade 6 English Language Arts

Units

1. Unit 1

   🧠Learning to Learn

   Practises using prior knowledge, asking open-ended questions, making connections, adjusting reading rate, and choosing and tracking learning goals.

   Curriculum outcome: 4.4; 4.5 · using what you know, asking questions and thinking about how you read

2. Unit 2

   🌱Roots & Analogies

   Using Greek and Latin roots (like “geo,” “aud” and “port”) to work out unfamiliar words, and completing analogies that compare word relationships.

   Curriculum outcome: 4.4 · using Greek and Latin word roots and analogies to work out new words

3. Unit 3

   📚Text Features & Forms

   Practises text features such as the table of contents, index, glossary, captions and diagrams, the names of common text forms, and subject-specific vocabulary.

   Curriculum outcome: 4.3; 7.2 · text features such as headings, indexes and captions, and common text forms

4. Unit 4

   📑Text Forms & Features

   Recognizing problem-and-solution reports, scripts, and web features like menus, and explaining how pictures and graphics add to a text.

   Curriculum outcome: 4.3; 7.2 · problem-and-solution texts, scripts and the features that help readers

5. Unit 5

   📖Close Reading

   Reading original stories and information texts, then finding the theme or main idea, making inferences, explaining why characters act as they do and choosing the sentence that best supports an answer.

   Curriculum outcome: 4.4; 6.2 · finding the theme, making inferences and using evidence from a text

6. Unit 6

   👁️Point of View

   Telling first person, third person limited and third person omniscient apart, and thinking about what each narrator can and can't know.

   Curriculum outcome: 6.2; 7.3 · telling first person from third person and what each narrator can know

7. Unit 7

   🎨Figurative Language

   Naming similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration and idioms, explaining what they mean, finding the sense an image appeals to and working out what a symbol stands for.

   Curriculum outcome: 8.3; 7.3 · similes, metaphors, personification, idioms and other figurative language

8. Unit 8

   🎭Connotation & Tone

   Words can share a dictionary meaning (denotation) but carry different feelings (connotation), like “cozy” and “cramped.” Students choose words for effect and identify a writer's tone.

   Curriculum outcome: 8.3; 7.3 · how word choice changes feeling and tone

9. Unit 9

   🔎Sources & Bias

   Separating fact from opinion, judging whether a source is reliable, spotting loaded words and one-sided reporting, and asking who made a message and why.

   Curriculum outcome: 7.1; 10.5 · fact and opinion, reliable sources and spotting one-sided messages

10. Unit 10

    🎬Media, Bias & Diversity

    Practises how multimodal texts combine modes, how audience and purpose shape a text, and how to notice bias, stereotypes, inclusion and equity in texts.

    Curriculum outcome: 7.1; 3.2 · how media texts are made, and noticing bias and stereotypes

11. Unit 11

    📝Plan & Organize Writing

    Practises choosing a focused topic for an audience, planning with organizers, using organization patterns such as cause and effect, and building introductions, paragraphs and conclusions.

    Curriculum outcome: 10.1; 9.2 · choosing a topic, planning and organizing ideas for an audience

12. Unit 12

    📣Make Your Case

    Building an argument: stating a claim, choosing the strongest evidence, recognizing counterarguments and rebuttals, spotting persuasive techniques and ordering a persuasive paragraph.

    Curriculum outcome: 9.1; 9.2 · stating a claim, choosing evidence and answering counterarguments

13. Unit 13

    🤝Agreement

    Making verbs agree with their subjects (even with tricky phrases, “each,” “everyone” and “either…or”) and choosing pronouns that clearly match the nouns they replace.

    Curriculum outcome: 10.2 · making verbs agree with subjects and pronouns match their nouns

14. Unit 14

    🔧Sentence Repair

    Spotting sentence fragments, run-on sentences and comma splices, and choosing correct ways to fix them with periods, semicolons, joining words or dependent clauses.

    Curriculum outcome: 10.2; 10.1 · fixing fragments, run-ons and comma splices

15. Unit 15

    🧩Commas & Clauses

    Finding dependent clauses, telling simple, compound and complex sentences apart, and using commas in lists, compound sentences, introductions and appositives.

    Curriculum outcome: 10.2 · clauses, sentence types and commas

16. Unit 16

    ✒️Punctuation Power

    Using a colon in a formal greeting or after a speaker's name in a script, and putting a comma after words like However and phrases like For example.

    Curriculum outcome: 10.2 · colons, commas after transitions and punctuating scripts