Grade 6 Grammar Worksheets

What is on this page

Seven sheets on this page were written for grade 6 specifically. Sheets for the grade either side are linked separately under Nearby grades and are not counted here. The skills covered, largest first, are Sentence Structure (2), Verb Tenses (1), Punctuation (1), Comma Rules (1), Subject-Verb Agreement (1) and Parts of Speech (1).

Between them the grade 6 sheets come to 126 questions across four question types: 7 × identify, 7 × multiple choice, 7 × rewrite and 7 × write your own. 98 ruled lines are printed between them, and that count decides how long a sheet takes far more than the question count does.

The topics a grade 6 sheet covers

Seven distinct topics are covered at grade 6: action and linking verbs, clauses and phrases, commas after introductory elements, compound sentences, perfect tenses, phrases between subject and verb and quotation marks. Each has its own sheet, its own rule box and its own answer key, so none of them is a variation on the one above it.

How a grade 6 sheet asks its questions

Grade 6 sits in the 6-8 band, which this site calls analysis work. Complex analysis. The student works with multi-clause sentences, distinguishes cases that look alike, repairs writing that is wrong in more than one way, and states which rule applies and why.

21 rule statements are printed across the grade 6 sheets, in a box above the questions rather than assumed from a lesson last week — so a sheet tests whether the rule can be applied, not whether it was remembered. Altogether a student reads about 2711 words to work through everything on this page.

Sentences of 12 to 22 words with subordinate clauses and embedded phrases, and vocabulary a 11 to 14 year old meets in academic reading. That is the reading level these sheets are written to, and it is worth checking against a particular class before printing a set: a sheet pitched right on the grammar and wrong on the reading fails the same child either way.