Year 6

Year 6 English

Browse checked English videos, lessons, worksheets and practice for Year 6, organised by topic with clear source and content notes.

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• Increase Range Of Textsreading a wide range of story genres
• Root Word Awarenessroot words prefixes and suffixes
• Use Spoken Language In Groupsgroup discussion and debating skills
• Distinguish Fact From Opinionfact or opinion ks2
• Hyphens, dashes and other punctuationusing hyphens and dashes in sentences
• Punctuate Independent Clausesusing semicolons and colons to join clauses
• Use Colons In Listsusing a colon before a list
• Use Prefixes And Suffixescommon prefixes and suffixes spelling rules
• Plan what to write and who to write forwriting for a purpose and audience
• Grammar And Vocabulary Awarenesssynonyms antonyms and formal vocabulary
• Compare textscomparing two poems
• Explore Meaningworking out word meaning from context
• Identify And Summarise Main Ideassummarising the main idea of a paragraph
• Identify Themes And Conventionsfeatures of non-fiction text types
• Explore text structure and purposefeatures of persuasive and instructional texts
• Use Questions To Understand Textsasking questions while reading
• Draw Inferences About Textsdrawing inferences from a text
• Predict Story Developmentpredicting what happens next in a story
• Discuss an author’s languageidentifying similes metaphors and personification
• Retrieve And Record Informationscanning and skimming to find information
• Justify Viewsusing evidence to justify an opinion about a text
• Homophones and commonly confused wordscommonly confused homophones
• Build Paragraph Cohesionusing connectives for cohesion between paragraphs
• Assess Effect And Meaningeffect of language choices in non-fiction texts
• Assess Use Of Tensesusing tenses consistently
• Correct Subject And Verb Agreementsubject verb agreement
• Proofread Own Work For Errorsproofreading writing for spelling and punctuation errors
• Explore formal speechformal and informal language
• Explore the passive voiceactive and passive voice
• Explore Year 5 and Year 6 grammarword classes and sentence types year 5 and 6 grammar
• Punctuate Bullet Pointsusing bullet points correctly
• Use morphology and etymology to help with spellingspelling rules using word origins and letter strings
• Reading Practice Papersks2 sats reading practice
• Exam Style Questions: Text Markingsats reading text marking technique
• Exam Style Questions: Poetry Questionsanswering questions about poetry
• Exam Style Questions: Word Questionssats grammar word class questions
• Exam Style Questions: Retrieval Questionssats retrieval questions practice
• Exam Style Questions: Inference Questionssats inference questions practice
• Exam Style Questions: Spellingsyear 6 spelling patterns homophones prefixes and suffixes
• Spelling Practice Papersks2 sats spelling practice
• Grammar And Punctuation Practice Papersks2 sats grammar and punctuation practice