Grade 6 English: Advanced Vocabulary and Word Analysis

Free Grade 6 English unit on Advanced Vocabulary and Word Analysis: 10 lessons in order. Includes practice questions and answer keys.

10 lessons in this unit

Understand and use academic words such as analyse, assume, factor, interpret, evaluate and consequence across subjects.

Understand and use subject-specific technical vocabulary in Science, Maths, Geography and other subjects, using glossaries and diagrams.

Use common Greek and Latin roots to work out the meanings of new words and build word families.

Analyse words by their morphemes (prefixes, roots, suffixes) to work out meaning, word class and spelling.

Explore word origins (etymology), including borrowed words, compounds and words from names, and use them to understand meaning.

Recognise words with more than one meaning and use context and a dictionary to choose the correct meaning and pronunciation.

Interpret figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification, idiom and hyperbole, and explain how it adds meaning.

Work out the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues such as definitions, examples, contrasts and inference.

Choose precise words and connotations, replacing vague words with exact ones and recognising shades of meaning.

Apply advanced vocabulary strategies together to read, understand and write about a complex text and build a personal word bank.