Spectrum Language Arts, Grade 6

by Spectrum (Compiler)

Overview

Spectrum Grade 6 Language Arts Workbook for kids ages 11-12

Support your child’s educational journey with Spectrum’s Language Arts 6th Grade Workbook that teaches basic language arts skills to 6th graders.

Language Arts workbooks are a great way for kids to learn basic skills such as vocabulary acquisition, grammar, figures of speech, sentence types, and more through a variety of activities that are both fun AND educational!

Why You’ll Love This Grammar Workbook

• Engaging and educational reading and writing practice. “Skits”, “Writing a friendly letter”, and “proofing passages” are a few of the fun activities that incorporate language arts into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child’s homeschool or classroom curriculum.
• Testing progress along the way. Lesson reviews test student knowledge before moving on to new and exciting lessons. An answer key is included in the back of the 6th grade book to track your child’s progress and accuracy.
• Practically sized for every activity The 184-page 6th grade workbook is sized at about 8 inches x 11 inches—giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.

About Spectrum

For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals—providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.

This 6th Grade Language Arts Kids Activity Book Contains:

• 4 chapters full of tips, fun activities, and lesson reviews
• An answer key and writer’s guide
• Perfectly sized at about 8” x 11"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483812106
Publisher:	Carson Dellosa Education
Publication date:	08/15/2014
Series:	Spectrum , #16
Pages:	184
Sales rank:	110,949
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	11 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

Grammar
Parts of Speech
Common and Proper Nouns     6
Regular Plural Nouns     8
Irregular Plural Nouns     10
Personal Pronouns     12
Demonstrative Pronouns     14
Relative Pronouns     16
Indefinite Pronouns     18
Verbs: Regular Present and Past Tense     20
Verbs: Irregular Present and Past Tense     22
Subject-Verb Agreement     24
Action Verbs     26
Helping Verbs     28
Linking Verbs     30
Transitive Verbs     32
Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives     34
Adjectives     36
Adverbs     38
Conjunctions     40
Interjections     42
Prepositions     44
Prepositional Phrases     46
Articles     48
Review: Lessons 1.1-1.22     50
Sentences
Declarative Sentences     52
Interrogative Sentences     54
Exclamatory Sentences     56
Imperative Sentences     58
Simple Sentences     60
Compound Sentences     62
Complex Sentences     64
Sentence Fragments     66
Combining Sentences     68
Writing a Paragraph     70
Review: Lessons 1.26-1.32     72
Mechanics
Capitalization
Proper Nouns: Days of the Week, Months of the Year     74
Proper Nouns: Historical Events, Names of Languages and Nationalities, Team Names     76
Proper Nouns: Organizations, Departments of Government, Sections of the Country     78
Proper Nouns: Titles, Geographic Names     80
Sentences, Direct Quotations     82
Personal and Business Letters     84
Review: Lessons 2.1-2.6     86
Punctuation
Periods: After Imperative Sentences, In Dialogue, In Abbreviations, In Initials     88
Periods: Decimals, Dollars and Cents     90
Question Marks     92
Exclamation Points     94
Commas: Series, Direct Address, Multiple Adjectives     96
Commas: Combining Sentences (between clauses), Set-Off Dialogue     98
Commas: Personal and Business Letters     100
Quotation Marks     102
Apostrophes     104
Colons     106
Semicolons     108
Hyphens     110
Parentheses     112
Review: Lessons 2.7 -2.19      114
Usage
Verbs: rise, teach, wrote     116
Verbs: bring, take     118
Verbs: lay, lie     120
Adjectives: busy, early, easy     122
Adjectives: more and most, good/better/best; bad/worse/worst     124
Adjectives and Adverbs: bad/badly, good/well; Adverb: already vs. Phrase: all ready     126
Homophones: cereal/serial, coarse/course, counsel/council     128
Homophones: oversees/overseas, wring/ring, sent/scent/cent     130
Contractions     132
Negatives and Double Negatives     134
Review: Lessons 3.1-3.10     136
Writer's Guide
Prewriting     138
Drafting     139
Revising     140
Proofreading     141
Publishing     142
Evaluating Writing     143
Writing Process Practice     144
Answer Key     149