24 free grammar resources for 6th Grade: 23 worksheets, 1 test. Answers included.
Parts of speech, sentence structure and punctuation. 6th grade consolidates primary math: operations with fractions and decimals, percentages, integers, order of operations and probability.
Students will practice: using semicolons and colons; distinguishing similes and metaphors; identifying modal verbs and their strength; recognizing fragments and comma splices; identifying relative pronouns; identifying fragments, run-ons and comma splices; repairing faulty sentences; combining sentences with relative clauses.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students learn to spot the three most common sentence faults (fragments, run-ons and comma splices) and to fix them using conjunctions,…
Students learn that modal verbs (can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would) sit before a main verb and change its force:…
Students learn four punctuation marks that help writers connect and add ideas: semicolons to join closely related sentences, colons to…
Students learn the difference between active sentences, where the doer comes first (The dog chased the ball), and passive sentences, where…
A 6th grade comma worksheet on extra information. Students learn that an appositive (a noun phrase that renames a noun) and a nonessential…
Students learn to spot and fix the grammar mistakes that appear most often in everyday writing: could of instead of could have, less…
Students learn that the perfect tenses use has, have, had or will have with a past participle to show that an action is complete by a…
Students learn four ways to combine short, choppy sentences into smoother ones: sharing a subject or verb, adding an appositive (a noun…
Students learn three kinds of conjunctions and what each one does. Coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so, yet) join equal ideas;…
A 6th grade worksheet on the hyphen, the shortest joining mark. Students hyphenate compound adjectives that come before a noun (a…
Students learn that one precise verb often says more than a general verb with an adverb, such as trudged instead of walked slowly and…
Choose the joining word (conjunction) that makes sense: and, but, so, because, or — and, at the advanced level, although, unless, until,…
Turn adjectives into adverbs that describe how something is done: add -ly, change y to i (happily), -le to -ly (gently), and learn good →…
Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. Starts with the…
Decide whether a sentence is in the past, present or future tense, and choose the verb that matches a time word like yesterday, now or…
Choose the joining word (conjunction) that makes sense: and, but, so, because, or — and, at the advanced level, although, unless, until,…
Turn adjectives into adverbs that describe how something is done: add -ly, change y to i (happily), -le to -ly (gently), and learn good →…
Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. Expected-level…
Decide whether a sentence is in the past, present or future tense, and choose the verb that matches a time word like yesterday, now or…
Choose the joining word (conjunction) that makes sense: and, but, so, because, or — and, at the advanced level, although, unless, until,…
Turn adjectives into adverbs that describe how something is done: add -ly, change y to i (happily), -le to -ly (gently), and learn good →…
Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. A challenge set…
Decide whether a sentence is in the past, present or future tense, and choose the verb that matches a time word like yesterday, now or…
Quick checks for understanding.
A quick ten-question check of the grammar covered in 6th grade: semicolons and colons, similes and metaphors, modal verbs, fragments and…
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Parts of speech, sentence structure and punctuation. At 6th Grade, our resources focus on: using semicolons and colons; distinguishing similes and metaphors; identifying modal verbs and their strength; recognizing fragments and comma splices.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
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