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Grade 6 skill plan
Every Grade 6 skill in Vita, in the order we suggest teaching them. Tap a skill to practice it, or print the plan and check skills off as your child earns each gold star.
86 skills this year: 52 math, 34 language arts. That's about 3 a week over a 36-week school year, and 15 to 20 minutes of practice a day is plenty for most kids.
Standards: Common Core State Standards for math and language arts.
Math 52 skills
Ratios, rates and percents
- 6.1Ratios6.RP.A.1
- 6.2Equivalent ratios6.RP.A.3a
- 6.3Unit rates6.RP.A.2
- 6.4Percent of a number6.RP.A.3c
- 6.5What percent?6.RP.A.3c
- 6.6Speed and rate problems6.RP.A.3b
- 6.7Ratio tables6.RP.A.3a
- 6.8Tape diagrams6.RP.A.3
- 6.9Find the whole from a percent6.RP.A.3c
- 6.10Ratios from pictures6.RP.A.1
- 6.11Percents, decimals and fractions6.RP.A.3c
- 6.12Which is the better buy?6.RP.A.3b
The number system
- 6.13Divide fractions6.NS.A.1
- 6.14Greatest common factor6.NS.B.4
- 6.15Least common multiple6.NS.B.4
- 6.16Positive and negative numbers6.NS.C.5
- 6.17Absolute value and opposites6.NS.C.7c
- 6.18Compare and order integers6.NS.C.7a
- 6.19Coordinates in all four quadrants6.NS.C.6c
- 6.20Long division with two-digit divisors6.NS.B.2
- 6.21Multiply and divide decimals6.NS.B.3
- 6.22Integers on a number line6.NS.C.6
- 6.23Distance across quadrants6.NS.C.8
- 6.24Fraction division word problems6.NS.A.1
- 6.25Add and subtract decimals6.NS.B.3
- 6.26Prime factorization6.NS.B.4
- 6.27Factor out the GCF6.NS.B.4
- 6.28Negative numbers in real life6.NS.C.5
- 6.29Which quadrant?6.NS.C.6b
Expressions and equations
- 6.30Exponents6.EE.A.1
- 6.31Evaluate expressions6.EE.A.2c
- 6.32Equivalent expressions6.EE.A.3
- 6.33Solve one-step equations6.EE.B.7
- 6.34Inequalities6.EE.B.5
- 6.35Dependent and independent variables6.EE.C.9
- 6.36Parts of an expression6.EE.A.2b
- 6.37Write an equation6.EE.B.7
- 6.38Is it a solution?6.EE.B.5
- 6.39Order of operations with exponents6.EE.A.2c
- 6.40Combine like terms6.EE.A.3
Area and surface area
- 6.41Area of triangles6.G.A.1
- 6.42Area of parallelograms6.G.A.1
- 6.43Area of trapezoids6.G.A.1
- 6.44Surface area6.G.A.4
- 6.45Nets of solids6.G.A.4
- 6.46Volume with fraction edges6.G.A.2
Statistics
- 6.47Mean, median, mode and range6.SP.B.5c
- 6.48Statistical questions6.SP.A.1
- 6.49Read a box plot6.SP.B.4
- 6.50Read a histogram6.SP.B.4
- 6.51Find a missing value from the mean6.SP.B.5c
- 6.52Interquartile range6.SP.B.5c
Language arts 34 skills
Word study and vocabulary
- 6.1Greek and Latin rootsL.6.4b
- 6.2ConnotationL.6.5c
- 6.3AnalogiesL.6.5b
- 6.4Context cluesL.6.4a
- 6.5Commonly misspelled wordsL.6.2b
- 6.6Parts of speech in contextL.6.4c
- 6.7Figurative languageL.6.5a
- 6.8Academic wordsL.6.6
- 6.9Prefixes inter-, sub-, trans- and super-L.6.4b
- 6.10than/then, lose/loose, its/it'sL.6.1
Grammar
- 6.11Pronoun caseL.6.1a
- 6.12Intensive pronounsL.6.1b
- 6.13Pronoun shiftsL.6.1c
- 6.14Clear pronounsL.6.1d
- 6.15Formal styleL.6.3b
- 6.16Fix run-on sentencesL.6.2
Punctuation
- 6.17Commas around extra informationL.6.2a
- 6.18Dashes and parenthesesL.6.2a
Reading
- 6.19Parts of a plotRL.6.3
- 6.20Author's purposeRI.6.6
- 6.21Fact or opinionRI.6.8
- 6.22Cite text evidenceRL.6.1
- 6.23Objective summariesRL.6.2
- 6.24How characters changeRL.6.3
- 6.25ToneRL.6.4
- 6.26Narrator's point of viewRL.6.6
- 6.27Central ideaRI.6.2
- 6.28Supported claimsRI.6.8
- 6.29Details that show the themeRL.6.2
- 6.30How setting shapes the storyRL.6.3
- 6.31Purpose of text featuresRI.6.5
Research and argument
- 6.32Claim, reason or evidence?W.6.1
- 6.33Credible sourcesW.6.8
- 6.34Good research questionsW.6.7
Tip for homeschool families: the progress report on your Family page shows which of these skills your child has mastered, with dates. Print both to keep a record of the year.