6 free vocabulary resources for 6th Grade: 6 worksheets. Answers included.
Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word building. 6th grade consolidates primary math: operations with fractions and decimals, percentages, integers, order of operations and probability.
Students will practice: distinguishing similes from metaphors; interpreting the meaning of figurative language; completing common similes; writing original similes and metaphors; spotting idioms; using context clues to work out the meaning of an idiom; rewriting idioms in plain language; using idioms in writing.
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Students learn to tell similes (comparisons using "like" or "as") from metaphors (which say one thing is another), explain what figurative…
Students learn that an idiom is a phrase whose meaning is different from the meanings of its words, such as a piece of cake (something…
Students learn that words with similar meanings can carry different feelings, called connotations: determined sounds positive, while…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
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Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word building. At 6th Grade, our resources focus on: distinguishing similes from metaphors; interpreting the meaning of figurative language; completing common similes; writing original similes and metaphors.
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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