US homeschool curriculum · 6th grade
6th Grade Language Arts
A self-paced online Language Arts course for 6th grade: 28 lessons across 7 units. A short placement quiz finds the right starting point, practice adapts as your child answers, and every lesson is marked automatically with progress reported to you.
- Every lesson has at least two different question styles, with hints and step-by-step worked solutions.
- Struggling triggers a gentler re-teach and a warm-up on the missing building block — never a visible drop in score.
- Work this course at its own level: a child can take 6th Grade Language Arts alongside a different grade in Math.
What your child learns
The scope and sequence below is generated from the live curriculum, so it is always what the app actually teaches.
Phonics and word reading
- Subject terminology: Can match a subject term (isosceles, photosynthesis, chronological …) to its meaning.
- Words of Greek origin: Can spell words where ph says f, ch says k and y says i (phrase, chemistry, mystery).
- Commonly misspelled middle school words: Can read and use words such as argument, occurrence, questionnaire and separate.
Spelling
- Spell commonly misspelled middle school words: Can spell argument, business, definitely, occurrence, questionnaire and similar.
- Apostrophes in harder cases: Can use apostrophes for names ending in s, joint ownership and time (two weeks' time).
- Confusable words: Can choose between loose/lose, than/then, of/off, effect/affect and similar.
- Irregular plurals: Can form plurals like crises, phenomena, criteria and cacti.
Grammar
- Word classes: Can say whether a word is a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction or determiner.
- Simple, compound and complex sentences: Can classify a sentence as simple, compound or complex.
- Main and dependent clauses: Can pick out the dependent clause in a complex sentence.
- Subject and verb: Can identify the subject of a sentence and make the verb agree with it.
- Perfect tenses: Can choose between the simple past, present perfect and past perfect.
- Varying sentence openers: Can pick the version of a sentence that opens with an adverb, an -ing clause or a dependent clause.
Punctuation
- Comma splices: Can spot a comma splice and knows how to fix it.
- What the punctuation is doing: Can say what a colon, semicolon, dash or parentheses is doing in a sentence.
- Dialogue layout: Can punctuate a two-speaker exchange, with a new line for each speaker.
Vocabulary
- Connotation: Can say whether a word's connotation is positive, negative or neutral (slim, skinny, thin).
- Academic vocabulary: Can choose the academic word (demonstrates, significant, contrast) for a piece of analysis.
- More Greek and Latin roots: Can use roots like aud, vis, dict, spect, rupt and -ology to work out meanings.
Reading comprehension
- Inference in literary extracts: Can infer character, mood or relationship from a literary extract.
- Persuasive techniques: Can name the technique: rhetorical question, rule of three, emotive language, direct address, statistics, repetition.
- Poetic techniques: Can identify alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme, personification and imagery in a line.
- Purpose and audience: Can say what a text is for (inform, persuade, entertain, instruct, advise) and who it is for.
- Effect of language choices: Can explain what a writer's word or phrase makes the reader think or feel.
Writing
- Point, evidence, explanation: Can tell which sentence in an analytical paragraph is the point, the evidence and the explanation.
- Tone and register: Can choose the sentence whose tone suits the task: formal, persuasive, informal, reassuring.
- Proofread middle school writing: Can spot the sentence free of comma splices, apostrophe errors, agreement errors and misspellings.
- Precise word choice: Can replace a weak word (said, nice, got, walked) with the precise one the context needs.
Language Arts uses American spelling, punctuation and conventions throughout. It is not mapped to the Common Core ELA standards — the lesson list above is the honest description of what it teaches.