Class VI English
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
Greek and Latin roots
- P.1 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- P.2 Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- P.3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- P.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- P.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Synonyms and antonyms
Homophones
Shades of meaning
Analogies
Context clues
Reference skills
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments and run-ons
- W.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- W.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
- W.3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
- W.4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
- W.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- W.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- W.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- W.8 Identify dependent and independent clauses
- W.9 Is the sentence simple, compound or complex?
Nouns
- X.1 Identify common and proper nouns
- X.2 Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
- X.3 Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
- X.4 Form plurals: review
- X.5 Form and use plurals: review
- X.6 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- X.7 Form the singular or plural possessive
- X.8 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns and antecedents
Pronoun types
- Z.1 Choose between subject and object pronouns
- Z.2 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’
- Z.3 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
- Z.4 Use possessive pronouns
- Z.5 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- Z.6 Use reflexive pronouns
- Z.7 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- Z.8 Identify relative pronouns
- Z.9 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- Z.10 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
Verb types
Subject-verb agreement
Verb tense
- CC.1 Irregular past tense: review
- CC.2 Simple past, present and future tense: review
- CC.3 Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- CC.4 Use the progressive verb tenses
- CC.5 Form the progressive verb tenses
- CC.6 Choose between the past tense and past participle
- CC.7 Use the perfect verb tenses
- CC.8 Form the perfect verb tenses
Adjectives and adverbs
- DD.1 Identify adjectives
- DD.2 Order adjectives
- DD.3 Identify adverbs
- DD.4 Use relative adverbs
- DD.5 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- DD.6 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- DD.7 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
- DD.8 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
- DD.9 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
- DD.10 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Punctuation
Capitalisation
Writing strategies
Organising writing
Developing and supporting arguments
Creative techniques
Editing and revising
Research skills
Reading strategies