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6th Grade Language Arts
English VI covers concrete, abstract, and compound nouns, subject and object pronouns, compound direct objects, verb phrases, principal verb parts, positive and negative comparisons, sentence mechanics, diagramming, and fragments.
This course instructs students in pronunciation skills and symbols, review of consonants, vowels,verbs, word analysis skills, sight words, core subject words, words withmultiple meanings, sequencing, alphabetization, comprehension skills includingconflict and climax, fiction, nonfiction, fables, poetry, figurative languageincluding alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, irony, personification,flashback, and foreshadowing. Selected authors include Burnett, Longfellow,Irving, Defoe, Crane, Burns, and Poe.
It also covers how to use a thesaurus, multiple meanings of words,strategies for solving types of word relationships, improving vocabularythrough synonyms and antonyms, using context, prefixes, suffixes, and roots,foreign terms, short vowel sounds, diphthongs, initial consonants, and the /oo/sound.