Grade by Grade
Alberta · Grade 6

English Language Arts and Literature

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

TFSText Forms and Structures

Articles, speeches, comedy and tragedy; ballads; protagonist, antagonist and stock characters

OLOral Language

Communication protocols; evidence and logical reasoning in collaborative dialogue; oration

VVocabulary

Word origins and morphemes; categorizing words and phrases

CComprehension

Synthesize, draw conclusions, note bias; historical, social and cultural context

WWriting

Organizational structures, sentence variety, imagery and suspense; research from multiple sources

CVConventions

Colons; verb tense; simple and compound sentences; independent and dependent clauses