Year 6 Reading & writing Exercises

Students will be able to read between the lines after studying this exercise on identifying contextual clues.

Students will understand just where their vocabulary words come from with this root words exercise.

Commas serve so many uses in our written language, and learning their vast possibilities helps fifth graders in their essay writing and beyond. Punctuating direct addresses can be tricky, but your fifth grader can get the help they need with these exercises.

Give students practise with all of the parts that make up complete sentences in this exercise.

Test your students with these exercises that have them identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. Helpful hints give your students all the information they need to work through the problems on their own.

Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Help students expand their knowledge of sentence structures with these exercises that encourage students to use correlative conjunctions in their writing.

Have your fifth grader use sentence details and clues to determine the best transition word to link two sentences.

Your students will be masters of irregularly spelled words after completing this final exercise in the series.

This exercise’s further practise identifying synonyms and antonyms will reinforce your students’ understanding of like and opposite words.

Include proper address form in your unit on letter writing to help your fifth graders learn how to be clear as they describe various locations for use personally and professionally.

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!

Have your fifth graders challenge themselves with these exercises that ask them to identify independent and dependent clauses while reviewing different sentence structures.

For students still learning grammar, this exercise will be instrumental in teaching them how to use suffixes to change verbs into nouns.

Students who complete this exercise will be able to explain situations more clearly using adverbs.

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.

Showing students how to work with coordinating and subordinating conjunctions has never been easier thanks to this exercise.

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.

Improve your students' phrasing with these exercises that teach them how to identify and fix awkward run-on sentences.

Students who complete this exercise will have no problem pronouncing those long syllables in multi syllable words.

Teach your students everything they need to know about proper nouns to succeed in their future writing careers with this exercise that gives them additional practise while providing helpful hints!

Help students stay focused on their future with this simple exercise that will give them mastery over the future tense.

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.