Grade 6 English and Maths Canada (Alberta) curriculum, by strand

Comprehension

• Evidence-based answers
• Language effects in poetry
• Themes and conventions

Conventions: Grammar

• Active and passive voice
• Modal verbs
• Relative clauses
• Semicolons, colons and dashes

Conventions: Spelling

• Endings -cious and -tial
• ie and ei patterns

Creating Texts

• Plan, draft and revise
• Write a formal letter

Financial Literacy

• Unit prices and best buys

Geometry

• Angles on a line and at a point
• Coordinates in all four quadrants
• Nets of 3-D shapes
• Parts of a circle

Measurement

• Area of triangles and parallelograms
• Volume of cuboids

Number

• Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
• Common factors and multiples
• Compare and order integers
• Compare fractions with unlike denominators
• Divisibility rules
• Fraction, decimal and percentage equivalence
• Long division
• Multiply and divide decimals by 10 and 100
• Multiply and divide fractions
• Negative numbers in context
• Order of operations
• Percentage of a quantity
• Percentages
• Place value to 1,000,000
• Prime and composite numbers
• Ratio and proportion language
• Simple scale factors
• Square and cube numbers
• Unequal sharing problems

Patterns

• Linear sequences
• Variables and expressions

Statistics

• Pie charts
• The mean

Vocabulary

• Formal and informal language