What Language Arts Should a 6th Grader Know?
In 6th grade, students should be able to perform numerous language arts activities such as:
Use different sources (books, websites, articles) to do research
Support their answers by using details and facts from a text
Reading and understanding different genres (plays, poems, and news articles)
Understand grammar rules, punctuation, capitalization
Write a complete paragraph with topic sentence and supporting details
A comprehensive sixth grade language arts curriculum will help your child build on what they already know, teach them more advanced skills, and even provide opportunities to review challenging concepts they may need help with.
Reading Goals/Objectives
A comprehensive 6th grade language arts curriculum will help your child accomplish all of this year’s goals and objectives in reading, including:
Identify, summarize, or explain the main idea of a text using supporting details
Analyze a writer’s point of view and compare points of view from various writers on the same topic
Use the reading comprehension process skills of summarizing, predicting, visualizing, questioning, and clarifying
Compare and contrast characters, settings, ideas, point of view, and/or plot
Use a variety of strategies to comprehend reading selections
Expand their vocabulary and use them in discussions, reports and texts.
Sixth grade language arts writing goals aim at making students more independent writers by teaching them how to effectively use the steps in the writing process (plan, draft, write, revise, edit, print, and share). Below are some of this year’s writing goals and objectives.
Create paragraphs and multiple-paragraph essays
Write letters for various situations, including business letters, e-mail messages, etc.
Create a fictional short story that includes dialogue
Demonstrate increased vocabulary and enhanced language use
Consistently apply rules of spelling
Writing Goals/Objectives
Grammar Goals/Objectives
In order to be good writers, students must be knowledgeable about capitalization, punctuation, verb tenses, and all the other aspects that make up grammar. Below are some of the grammar goals and objectives for sixth grade language arts.
Discriminate between transitive and intransitive verbs and direct and indirect objects
Identify and use descriptive adjectives and adverbs to enhance writing
Identify and correctly punctuate dependent and independent clauses
Identify pronouns, demonstrate agreement between pronouns and antecedents
Use commas in appositives and after introductory words and phrases, as well as with names in direct address
Writing and reading comprehension will always be an important aspect of your child’s education. Sixth grade language arts is no different. This year, students will read more complex texts in a number of different genres, and also do a lot of non-fiction reading. This will help them further develop their ‘reading to learn’ skills that they began building a few years back. As far as writing is concerned, sixth grade language arts focuses on getting students to become more independent writers as they begin to work on formal essays and more detailed writing assignments.
This page includes information on everything you need to know about teaching 6th grade language arts including objectives and goals for reading, grammar and writing. You’ll also discover how Time4Learning’s comprehensive 6th grade language arts curriculum can help your child meet those objectives.