Grade 6 English Tutor
Grade six students will delve deeper into the stories they read and listen to. They must also become adept at gathering information from a number of sources, organizing that information and creating both fiction and non-fiction pieces.
We work with the local curriculum which enables us to create a firm foundation which your child can build their language skills on. During the sixth grade, students must develop their skills in a wide range of media using a wide range of resources both tangible and electronic.
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Grade 6 English Sample Curriculum
Oral Communication
- Identify purposes for listening and set goals related to specific listening tasks
- Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate listening behavior by adapting active listening strategies to suit a variety of situations
- Identify a variety of listening comprehension strategies and use them appropriately
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of oral texts by summarizing important ideas
- Make inferences using stated and implied ideas in oral texts and extend understanding by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge
- Analyse oral texts and explain how specific elements contribute to meaning
- Identify the point of view presented in oral texts and ask questions about possible bias
- Identify the presentation strategies used and analyze their effect on the audience
- Communicate in a clear, coherent manner and use appropriate words and phrases from the full range of their vocabulary
- Identify some vocal effects, including tone, pace, pitch, volume, and a range of sound effects, and use them appropriately and with sensitivity towards cultural differences
- Identify some non-verbal cues, including facial expression, gestures, and eye contact, and use them in oral communications and use a variety of appropriate visual aids
Reading
- Identify a variety of purposes for reading and choose reading materials appropriate for those purposes and identify a variety of reading comprehension strategies and use them appropriately
- Demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details
- Extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge
- Analyse texts and explain how specific elements in them contribute to meaning and express opinions about the ideas and cite evidence from the text
- Identify the point of view presented in a text, citing supporting evidence, and suggest some possible alternative perspectives
- Explain how characteristics help communicate meaning, with a focus on literary texts such as a diary or journal
- Recognize a variety of organizational patterns and features and explain how the patterns help readers understand texts
- Identify various elements of style – including alliteration, descriptive adjectives and adverbs, and sentences of different types, lengths, and structures
- Read and understand high-frequency words and words of personal interest
- Predict the meaning of and rapidly solve unfamiliar words using different types of cues
- Read appropriate texts at a sufficient rate and with sufficient expression
Writing
- Identify the topic, purpose, and audience for a variety of writing forms
- Generate ideas about a potential topic and gather information to support ideas for writing using a variety of strategies and oral, print, and electronic sources
- Sort and classify ideas and information for their writing in a variety of ways
- Identify and order main ideas and supporting details and write more complex texts
- Establish a personal voice in their writing, with a focus on using words and stylistic elements that convey a specific mood such as amusement
- Use sentences of different lengths and structures
- Identify their point of view and other possible points of view on the topic, and determine whether their information sufficiently supports their own view
- Identify elements of their writing that need improvement and make revisions to improve the content, clarity, and interest of their written work
- Spell familiar words correctly and spell unfamiliar words using a variety of strategies
- Confirm spellings and word meanings or word choice using different types of resources
- Use punctuation appropriately to help communicate their intended meaning, with a focus on the use of: the apostrophe to indicate possession, and quotation marks to indicate direct speech
- Use parts of speech appropriately
- Use some appropriate elements of effective presentation in the finished product, including print, script, different fonts, graphics, and layout
- Produce pieces of published work to meet identified criteria based on the expectations related to content, organization, style, use of conventions, and use of presentation strategies
Media Literacy
- Identify the topic, purpose, and audience for a variety of writing forms
- Generate ideas about a potential topic and gather information to support ideas for writing using a variety of strategies and oral, print, and electronic sources
- Sort and classify ideas and information for their writing in a variety of ways
- Identify and order main ideas and supporting details and write more complex texts
- Establish a personal voice in their writing, with a focus on using words and stylistic elements that convey a specific mood such as amusement
- Use sentences of different lengths and structures
- Identify their point of view and other possible points of view on the topic, and determine whether their information sufficiently supports their own view
- Identify elements of their writing that need improvement and make revisions to improve the content, clarity, and interest of their written work
- Spell familiar words correctly and spell unfamiliar words using a variety of strategies
- Confirm spellings and word meanings or word choice using different types of resources
- Use punctuation appropriately to help communicate their intended meaning, with a focus on the use of: the apostrophe to indicate possession, and quotation marks to indicate direct speech
- Use parts of speech appropriately
- Use some appropriate elements of effective presentation in the finished product, including print, script, different fonts, graphics, and layout
- Produce pieces of published work to meet identified criteria based on the expectations related to content, organization, style, use of conventions, and use of presentation strategies
