6th Grade - Language Arts Homework Help

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Writing

Write narratives and essays

Editing and revising writing

Writing organization and arrangement

Forms of writing - personal letters, reviews,...

Write responses to literature

Grammar

Indefinite pronouns and different tenses

Using colons, semicolons and commas

6th grade spelling

6th grade capitalization

Using simple and compound sentences

Stories and Literature

Identify literary themes

Analyze how character affects plot, conflict ...

Tone and meaning in poetry

Identify different forms of fiction

Realism vs. fantasy

Vocabulary

Shades of meaning

Figurative language and words with multiple m...

Use clues to determine meaning of unknown wor...

Foreign words

Research and Technology

Using technology for research

Write research reports

Using evidence, visual media and technology i...

Using newspapers, magazines and online inform...

Formatting and design

Reading and Comprehension

Making reasonable assertions with accompanyin...

Analyzing the evidence for author's conc...

Main ideas

Compare and contrast

Creating outlines, summaries and reports

Speaking and Listening

Following multiple-step directions

Identify propaganda and false information

6th grade reading aloud

Speaker's word choice, pitch, tone and g...

Cadence, repetitive patterns and onomatopoeia

Oral Presentations

Using volume, pitch and tone in oral presenta...

Emphasizing main ideas in oral presentations

Selecting a focus, organization and point of ...

Deliver presentations on problems and solutio...

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