Printable checklist
Year 6 English — what your child learns
These are the 41 English topics Year 6 covers on TheLearnDen, following the National Curriculum for England. Print the list, stick it on the fridge, and tick topics off as they come up. Each topic name matches its page on this site, where you will find checked videos, lessons, worksheets and practice. Many are free; any account or subscription requirement is shown before you open a resource.
How to use this checklist
- Print the checklist and keep it somewhere visible.
- Open a topic page for checked videos, lessons, worksheets and practice.
- Tick the topic after it has been covered at school or at home.
- Increase Range Of Texts
- Root Word Awareness
- Use Spoken Language In Groups
- Distinguish Fact From Opinion
- Use Hyphens To Clarify
- Punctuate Independent Clauses
- Use Colons In Lists
- Use Prefixes And Suffixes
- Plan What And Who To Write For
- Grammar And Vocabulary Awareness
- Make Comparisons Of Texts
- Explore Meaning
- Identify And Summarise Main Ideas
- Identify Themes And Conventions
- Awareness Of Structure And Purpose
- Use Questions To Understand Texts
- Draw Inferences About Texts
- Predict Story Development
- Discuss Author Language
- Retrieve And Record Information
- Justify Views
- Homophone Awareness
- Build Paragraph Cohesion
- Assess Effect And Meaning
- Assess Use Of Tenses
- Correct Subject And Verb Agreement
- Proofread Own Work For Errors
- Formal Speech Awareness
- Passive Verb Awareness
- Grammar Awareness Learn The Grammar Of Y5 And 6
- Punctuate Bullet Points
- Spelling Awareness Use Knowledge Of Morphology And Etymology In Spelling
- Reading Practice Papers
- Exam Style Questions: Text Marking
- Exam Style Questions: Poetry Questions
- Exam Style Questions: Word Questions
- Exam Style Questions: Retrieval Questions
- Exam Style Questions: Inference Questions
- Exam Style Questions: Spellings
- Spelling Practice Papers
- Grammar And Punctuation Practice Papers
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