Give your sixth-graders the focused language arts practice they need to develop strong language skills.

36 weeks of instruction cover standards-based skills such as:

Reading Comprehension:
analogies
categorizing
cause and effect
fact and opinion
figurative language
inference

Vocabulary/Word Study
base words, prefixes, suffixes
contractions
homophones
synonyms & antonyms
word meaning from context
spelling
phonics

Punctuation
punctuation at the end of a sentence
periods in abbreviations and initials
underlining magazines, books, plays
run-on sentences
quotation marks in speech, songs, poems, and short stories
commas in a series, in dates, in addresses, to separate dialogue, in direct address/interjections, in compound sentences, after an introductory phrase/clause, and with nonrestrictive appositives
apostrophes in contractions & possessives

Capitalization
sentence beginning
days, months, holidays
books, songs, poems
proper names and titles of people
names of places

Grammar and Usage
correct article, determiner, adjective
types of adjectives & adverbs
singular & plural nouns
subject & object pronouns
possessive nouns
common & proper nouns
verb forms
verb tense
subject/predicate
parts of speech
comparative & superlative forms
subject/verb agreement
sentence types
double negatives
combining sentences

Reference Skills
alphabetical order
dictionary guide words
reference materials
syllabication