Grade 6 English language arts
Here is a list of English language arts skills students learn in grade 6! These skills are organized into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Sentence structure
- A.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- A.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
- A.3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
- A.4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
- A.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- A.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- A.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- A.8 Identify dependent and independent clauses
- A.9 Is the sentence simple, compound or complex?
Nouns
- B.1 Identify common and proper nouns
- B.2 Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
- B.3 Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
- B.4 Form plurals: review
- B.5 Form and use plurals: review
- B.6 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.7 Form the singular or plural possessive
- B.8 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns
- C.1 Identify pronouns and their antecedents
- C.2 Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
- C.3 Choose between subject and object pronouns
- C.4 Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
- C.5 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
- C.6 Use possessive pronouns
- C.7 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- C.8 Use reflexive pronouns
- C.9 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- C.10 Identify relative pronouns
- C.11 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- C.12 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
- C.13 Identify vague pronoun references
- C.14 Identify all of the possible antecedents
Verbs
- D.1 Identify main verbs and helping verbs
- D.2 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
- D.3 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- D.4 What does the modal verb show?
- D.5 Use the correct modal verb
- D.6 Use the correct subject or verb
- D.7 Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
- D.8 Irregular past tense: review
- D.9 Simple past, present and future tense: review
- D.10 Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- D.11 Use the progressive verb tenses
- D.12 Form the progressive verb tenses
- D.13 Choose between the past tense and past participle
- D.14 Use the perfect verb tenses
- D.15 Form the perfect verb tenses
Adjectives and adverbs
- E.1 Identify adjectives
- E.2 Order adjectives
- E.3 Identify adverbs
- E.4 Use relative adverbs
- E.5 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- E.6 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- E.7 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
- E.8 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
- E.9 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
- E.10 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
- E.11 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Contractions
Punctuation, capitalization and formatting
- I.1 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- I.2 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
- I.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- I.4 What does the punctuation suggest?
- I.5 Commas with nonrestrictive elements
- I.6 Use dashes
- I.7 Correct capitalization errors
- I.8 Capitalizing titles
- I.9 Formatting titles
- I.10 Formatting and capitalizing titles: review
- I.11 Formatting quotations and dialogue
Greek and Latin roots
- K.1 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- K.2 Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- K.3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- K.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- K.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Reference skills
Word relationships and usage
- M.1 Choose the synonym
- M.2 Find synonyms in context
- M.3 Choose the antonym
- M.4 Find antonyms in context
- M.5 Describe the difference between related words
- M.6 Positive and negative connotation
- M.7 Use the correct homophone
- M.8 Which definition matches the sentence?
- M.9 Which sentence matches the definition?
- M.10 Analogies
- M.11 Analogies: challenge
Common errors
Author's purpose and tone
Literary devices
- P.1 Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1
- P.2 Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1
- P.3 Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2
- P.4 Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2
- P.5 Use personification
- P.6 Interpret figures of speech
- P.7 Classify figures of speech