Reflecting the expectations, activities in Language Arts (English) series cover:
| Reasoning and Critical Thinking |
- Reading a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials: quest and trickster stories from various cultures and time periods, classical legends, historical and archaeological information
- Reading for connections between elements of plot and relationships between characters and plot events; identifying motivations for characters
- Summarizing main ideas and key details in information passages
- Comprehension: sequencing events for easier recall; making judgments and drawing conclusions; recognizing inferences and implications; making predictions about future plot events from story clues
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| Understanding Form and Style |
- Recognizing the characteristics of informative articles
- Recognizing the characteristics of quest stories and legends
- Using knowledge of different forms to adjust reading strategies and speed
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| Knowledge of Language Structures |
- Using knowledge of elements of grammar, oral and written language structures to understand what is read
- Recognizing varied sentence structures from different cultures and time periods
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| Vocabulary Building |
- Using a variety of strategies to determine meaning of unfamiliar words: context of sentence, phonics skills, use of dictionary and thesaurus
- Expanding vocabulary: using archaic, historical, and archaeological terms
- Word structure: using roots words, prefixes and suffixes from Greek and Latin
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| Use of Language Conventions |
- Grammar: review of all information which students should possess; expansion into more complex concepts- eg. Relative, demonstrative and reflexive pronouns, verb phrases, adjectival and adverbial
- Prepositional phrases, independent and dependent clauses in complex sentence structures
- Punctuation and capitalization: using quotation marks, commas, capital letters and appropriate end punctuation in dialogue
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Also see: Grade 6 Math Curriculum
