Grade 6 Grammar Unit Plans
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Nouns
Standards
Students will learn the concept of nouns, and common and proper, singular and plural, and possessive nouns.
Verbs
Standards
Students will learn the concept of a verb and the types of verbs, verb tenses, the principal parts of verbs, subject-verb agreement, and usage problems with the verbs sit, set; lie, lay; rise, raise; and lend, borrow; let, leave; teach, learn.
Modifiers
Standards
Students will learn the concept of modifiers, and adjectives and adverbs.
Pronouns
Standards
Students will learn the concept of pronouns and personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns, and the correct usage of who, whom, and whose.
The Sentence
Standards
Students will learn concept of sentence, the four types of sentences, the basic parts of a sentence, combining short sentences into longer ones, and correcting run-on sentences and sentence fragments.
Capitalization and Punctuation
Standards
Students will learn the concept of capitalization, punctuation, and end punctuation, capitalization of proper nouns, the uses of commas, and rules for capitalization and punctuation of abbreviations, titles and dialogue.
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Nouns
Standards
- Tell whether a noun names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea and identify nouns in sentences and in paragraphs.
- Identify common and proper nouns, capitalize proper nouns correctly and write sentences containing both common and proper nouns.
- Write the plural form of nouns correctly.
- Identify and write singular and plural possessive nouns correctly.
- Identify and write plural, singular possessive nouns and plural possessive nouns correctly.
- Identify appositives in sentences, combine sentences by using appositives, and punctuate appositives correctly.
- Recognizing Nouns
- Common and Proper Nouns
- Singular and Plural Nouns
- Possessive Nouns
- Plural and Possessive Nouns
- Combing Sentences: Appositives
Students will learn the concept of nouns, and common and proper, singular and plural, and possessive nouns.
Verbs
Standards
- Identify action verbs in sentences and write sentences containing action verbs.
- Identify a verb phrase, distinguish between main verbs and auxiliary verbs and write sentences containing verb phrases.
- Identify and use direct objects in sentences, including compound direct objects.
- Identify and use transitive and intransitive verbs and verb phrases in sentences.
- Identify and use being verbs and linking verbs in sentences.
- Identify predicate nouns and predicate adjectives.
- Identify and use verbs as being in the present, past, or future tense.
- Identify and use regular and irregular verbs in sentences.
- Use verb forms that agree in number with their subjects, with compound subjects joined by or, either…or, or neither….nor, and the subject in sentences beginning with here or there.
- Identify contractions in a sentence and the words that make up a contraction.
- Use sit, set, lie, lay, rise, raise, lend, borrow, let, leave, teach and learn correctly.
- Action Verbs
- Main Verbs and Auxiliaries
- Direct Objects
- Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
- Being Verbs and Linking Verbs
- Verb Tenses
- Principal Parts of Verbs
- More Irregular Verbs
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- More About Subject-Verb Agreement
- Contractions
- sit, set; lie, lay; rise, raise
- lend, borrow; let, leave; teach, learn
Students will learn the concept of a verb and the types of verbs, verb tenses, the principal parts of verbs, subject-verb agreement, and usage problems with the verbs sit, set; lie, lay; rise, raise; and lend, borrow; let, leave; teach, learn.
Modifiers
Standards
- Identify adjectives and the nouns or pronouns they modify.
- Recognize adjectives that answer which one? What kind? How many?
- Identify and use articles and demonstrative adjectives.
- Use the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives that are formed by adding –er or –est.
- Form the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives that use more and most and irregular adjectives.
- Form and capitalize proper adjectives.
- Identify and use adverbs and the verbs they modify.
- Use the comparative and superlative forms of adverbs correctly.
- Use negatives and double negatives correctly in sentences.
- Distinguish adjectives from adverbs and use adjectives and adverbs correctly in sentences.
- Adjectives
- Articles and Demonstratives
- Comparing with Adjectives
- Comparing with More and Most
- Proper Adjectives
- Adverbs that Modify Verbs
- Adverbs that Modify Adjectives and Adverbs
- Comparing with Adverbs
- Negatives
- Adjective or Adverb?
- Combining Sentences: Expanding with Modifiers
Students will learn the concept of modifiers, and adjectives and adverbs.
Pronouns
Standards
- Identify and use pronouns and their antecedent correctly in sentences.
- Distinguish between subject and object pronouns and choose the correct pronoun to complete the sentence.
- Identify and use possessive pronouns correctly and distinguish between possessive pronouns and contractions.
- Choose the correct pronoun form that follows a linking verb.
- Use the correct forms of pronouns in compound subjects and compound objects.
Use who, whom, and whose correctly in sentences. - Use correctly the pronouns we and us before nouns in sentences.
- Identify indefinite pronouns and use verbs that agree with singular and plural indefinite pronouns in sentences.
- Pronouns and Antecedents
- Pronouns as Subjects and Objects
- Possessive Pronouns
- Pronouns After Linking Verbs
- Pronouns in Compound Subjects and Objects
- Using Who, Whom, Whose
- Using we and us with Nouns
- Indefinite Pronouns
Students will learn the concept of pronouns and personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns, and the correct usage of who, whom, and whose.
The Sentence
Standards
- Identify declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences and use the correct punctuation at the end.
- Identify the simple and complete subject and simple and complete predicate of a sentence.
- Identify the subject in imperative and interrogative sentences.
- Identify compound subjects and predicates in sentences and recognize the connecting words and or or that join parts of a compound subject and predicate.
- Identify the simple sentences and the connecting word that make up a compound sentence.
- Identify, and, or and but as conjunctions.
Combine two simple sentences to create a compound sentence using appropriate conjunctions. - Identify simple, compound and complex sentences and combine simple sentences to form complex sentences using appropriate subordinating conjunctions.
- Recognize and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences.
- Kinds of Sentences
- Complete Subjects and Complete Predicates
- Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates
- Subjects in Imperative and Interrogative Sentences
- Compound Subjects
- Compound PredicatesCompound Sentences
Conjunctions - Combining Sentences: Compound Sentences
Combining Sentences: Complex Sentences - Correcting Fragments and Run-ons
Students will learn concept of sentence, the four types of sentences, the basic parts of a sentence, combining short sentences into longer ones, and correcting run-on sentences and sentence fragments.
Capitalization and Punctuation
Standards
- Use correct end punctuation for declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences.
- Capitalize proper nouns and proper adjectives.
- Identify and correctly punctuate interjections.
- Use commas correctly with items in a series.
- Use commas to separate the parts of compound sentences, an appositive from the rest of the sentence and after introductory words, such as well, yes, and no, and with nouns in direct address.
- Write correct abbreviations for places, businesses, titles, agencies, organizations, measurements, and states.
- Use quotation marks, commas, end punctuation, and capital letters correctly in dialogue.
- Correctly capitalize words in titles and distinguish between written titles that are underlined and those that are enclosed in quotation marks.
- Reviewing End Punctuation
- Proper Nouns and Proper Adjectives
- Interjections
- Commas in a Series
- More Uses for Commas
- Abbreviations
- Punctuating Dialogue
- Titles
Students will learn the concept of capitalization, punctuation, and end punctuation, capitalization of proper nouns, the uses of commas, and rules for capitalization and punctuation of abbreviations, titles and dialogue.
Resources
Text Book
Online Resource: https://www.englishgrammar101.com/
Interactive Resources
Teacher Created Resources