Grade 6 English – United States
Grade 6 English
This is the FutureSchool Grade 6 English course for students in the United States. It is matched to the Common Core State Standards, and to the state standards where a state sets its own. The course holds 60 lessons. Each lesson has a short video, worked examples and a printable worksheet. Lessons cover A visit to the Zoo, What do you want to do?, It’s going to be fun! and We are all doing things!, and more. Your child takes an assessment first, and the course then builds a study plan that names the lessons to work on. A lesson can be repeated as often as your child wants.
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| # | TOPIC | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A visit to the Zoo | About Koalas | ||
| Objective: Students will be able to answer questions about the text, identify the target language point ‘like’ + the infinitive) and distinguish between simple facts and opinions. | ||||
| 2 | A visit to the Zoo | I’m a zookeeper. | ||
| Objective: Students will be able to answer comprehension questions on reading, increase their vocabulary and use the frequency adverbs, ‘always’, ‘sometimes’, ‘often’ and ‘never’. | ||||
| 3 | What do you want to do? | Big Dreams | ||
| Objective: Students will be able to answer comprehension questions, increase their vocabulary and be able to use ‘want’ + the infinitive in positive and negative sentences, and in a question. | ||||
| 4 | What do you want to do? | Fruit Bowl | ||
| Objective: Students will be able to read and understand the text, to answer questions and to notice the use of the imperative form. | ||||
| 5 | It’s going to be fun! | It’s going to be fantastic! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading, and listening to, a story. They will learn how to talk about the future using the verb ‘to go + the infinitive’. | ||||
| 6 | It’s going to be fun! | What’s on the menu? | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading various menus. They will also learn to ask questions politely. | ||||
| 7 | We are all doing things! | I’m having a great time! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a letter which focuses on the use of the present continuous tense. | ||||
| 8 | We are all doing things! | Who can help me? | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which requests for help are made. | ||||
| 9 | To Australia and Back! | Getting There! Full lesson available | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a text about travel plans. They will also learn about coordinate conjunctions. | ||||
| 10 | To Australia and Back! | I came back! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a text in which Chen talks about going home to China. They will also revise the simple past tense. | ||||
| 11 | Famous People | Bruce Lee | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a text about Bruce Lee. They will also practice the use of the simple past tense and learn more irregular verbs. | ||||
| 12 | Famous People | Alexander Bell | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a text about Alexander Bell. They will also learn how to use ‘could’ and ‘couldn’t’, and review questions using ‘Wh’ words. | ||||
| 13 | Finding Buster! | Finding Buster! – A Movie Review | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their reading comprehension skills and increase their vocabulary by reading a movie review. They will also learn how to use the conjunction ‘because’ to answer ‘why’ questions. | ||||
| 14 | Finding Buster! | I’m going to be busy! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their reading comprehension skills by reading a story about plans for the weekend. They will revise the use of the verb ‘to go’ in the present tense + the infinitive to talk about the future. | ||||
| 15 | Sentences | The Sentence | ||
| Objective: To identify and use complete sentences. | ||||
| 16 | Common Nouns | Common Nouns | ||
| Objective: To show a common noun names an object or thing. | ||||
| 17 | Nouns | Proper Nouns | ||
| Objective: To show a proper noun is used to name a person, place or a title. | ||||
| 18 | Adjectives | Adjectives | ||
| Objective: To show an adjective is a word that describes a noun. | ||||
| 19 | Adverbs | Adverbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use adverbs. To understand an adverb tells something about (modifies) a verb. | ||||
| 20 | Pronouns | Pronouns | ||
| Objective: To show a pronoun is used in place of a noun. | ||||
| 21 | Parts of Speech Part b | Conjunctions | ||
| Objective: To identify and use conjunctions correctly. | ||||
| 22 | Parts of Speech Part h | Articles and Demonstratives | ||
| Objective: To identify and use articles and demonstratives correctly. | ||||
| 23 | Antonyms and Synonyms | Antonyms and Synonyms | ||
| Objective: To identify and use antonyms and synonyms. | ||||
| 24 | Spelling Skills | Syllabification | ||
| Objective: To improve spelling by dividing words correctly into syllables. | ||||
| 25 | Plurals | Plurals 1 – simple | ||
| Objective: To form plurals (more than one) by adding ‘s’ and ‘es’ correctly. | ||||
| 26 | Plurals | Plurals 2 – special rules | ||
| Objective: To form plurals with special rules: words ending in ‘y’ and ‘f’. | ||||
| 27 | Nouns | Collective and Abstract Nouns | ||
| Objective: To identify and use collective and abstract nouns. | ||||
| 28 | Verbs | Verbs – Tense | ||
| Objective: To identify and use the correct tense of verbs: past, present and future. | ||||
| 29 | Adjectives | Adjectives – Comparatives and Superlatives | ||
| Objective: To identify and use comparative and superlative adjectives. | ||||
| 30 | Parts of Speech Part a | Prepositions | ||
| Objective: To identify and use prepositions correctly. | ||||
| 31 | Punctuation Skills Part b | Quotation Marks | ||
| Objective: To use quotation marks for direct speech. | ||||
| 32 | Apostrophe – Possession | Apostrophe – Possession | ||
| Objective: To use the apostrophe of possession correctly. | ||||
| 33 | Mnemonics | Spelling – Mnemonics | ||
| Objective: To identify and use mnemonics to assist in correct spelling. | ||||
| 34 | Prefixes | Prefixes | ||
| Objective: The identify and use prefixes. | ||||
| 35 | Suffixes | Suffixes | ||
| Objective: The identify and use suffixes. | ||||
| 36 | Similes and Metaphors | Similes and Metaphors | ||
| Objective: To identify and use similes and metaphors. | ||||
| 37 | Figurative Language | Onomatopoeia, Assonance and Alliteration | ||
| Objective: To identify, and make use of, onomatopoeia, assonance, and alliteration. | ||||
| 38 | Homonyms – Homophones and Homographs | Homonyms – Homophones and Homographs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use correctly homonyms, both homophones and homographs. | ||||
| 39 | Advanced Dictionary Use | Advanced Dictionary Use | ||
| Objective: To use dictionaries by identifying all the information provided. To use a thesaurus. | ||||
| 40 | Capitalization | Capital Letters 2 | ||
| Objective: To use capital letters correctly: in titles and letters. | ||||
| 41 | Adjectives | Adjectives – from Nouns and Verbs | ||
| Objective: To create adjectives from nouns and verbs. E.g. China – Chinese | ||||
| 42 | Pronouns | Pronouns 2 | ||
| Objective: To recognize and use personal, possessive and relative pronouns. | ||||
| 43 | Commas 2 | Commas 2 | ||
| Objective: To use commas: to separate places, to separate clauses within sentences, and when using direct speech. | ||||
| 44 | Conjunctions – Sentences | Conjunctions – Sentences | ||
| Objective: To use conjunctions to increase the variety of sentence structure in written expression. | ||||
| 45 | Phrases | Phrases | ||
| Objective: To identify and use phrases including adjectival and adverbial phrases. | ||||
| 46 | Clauses | Clauses | ||
| Objective: To identify and use clauses including adjectival, adverbial and noun clauses. | ||||
| 47 | Simple and Compound Verbs | Simple and Compound Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use simple and compound verbs. | ||||
| 48 | Auxiliary Verbs | Auxiliary Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use auxiliary verbs within compound verbs. | ||||
| 49 | Subject-Verb Agreement | Subject-Verb Agreement | ||
| Objective: To identify and use correct tense, number and person in forming verbs. | ||||
| 50 | Verb tense – Compound | Verb tense – Compound | ||
| Objective: To identify and use ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ with the appropriate participle of the main verb. | ||||
| 51 | Plurals | Plurals 3 – Unusual | ||
| Objective: To create unusual plurals: for words ending in ‘o’; by changing the vowels or by adding letters. | ||||
| 52 | Common Errors | Common Errors in verb usage, spelling and punctuation | ||
| Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors. | ||||
| 53 | Punctuation | Punctuation – Various | ||
| Objective: To use hyphens, dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks, parentheses and brackets correctly. | ||||
| 54 | Vocabulary Development | Vocabulary | ||
| Objective: To identify and use better words than ‘got’ and ‘said’. | ||||
| 55 | What do you like to do? | Adverbs of frequency | ||
| Objective: Learn about the past continuous tense. | ||||
| 56 | BBQ Party! | Expressions of quantity | ||
| Objective: Learn the words used to express quantity. | ||||
| 57 | BBQ Party! | Sequence markers | ||
| Objective: Learn the words used in sequences or ordering. | ||||
| 58 | Big day out! | First and second conditionals | ||
| Objective: Learn the use of first conditionals. Learn the use of second conditionals. | ||||
| 59 | Big day out! | The future with ‘will’ and ‘going to’ | ||
| Objective: Learn the uses of ‘will’ and ‘going to’ to talk about the future. | ||||
| 60 | Thanks and goodbye | Time clauses | ||
| Objective: Learn how to use time clauses. | ||||



