Back to School ELA Review for 6th Grade | 20 Daily Lessons

Start the year with a focused 6th Grade Back to School ELA Review! Designed to revisit essential Grade 5 reading, grammar, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills, this resource gives students 20 structured daily lessons plus 16 print-and-play literacy games. The predictable routine helps sixth graders refresh key skills, build confidence, and transition smoothly into middle school ELA.

Each daily lesson follows the same student-friendly structure: Read & Think, Language & Grammar, Word Work, and Write About It. Students read short fiction, nonfiction, and persuasive passages, answer comprehension questions, review essential language skills, strengthen vocabulary and morphology, and complete connected writing tasks. Each lesson takes approximately 15–25 minutes.

The resource includes 20 daily ELA review lessons, a 68-page Student Workbook, 40 pages of daily lessons, comprehension and text-evidence practice, grammar review, Greek and Latin roots, advanced prefixes and suffixes, academic vocabulary, daily writing prompts, 16 literacy games, a complete Answer Key, Teacher Guide, 20-day pacing overview, four-week planning guide, differentiation suggestions, progress-monitoring tools, family letter, student reflection, and Reading Star Award.

Students revisit essential Grade 5 comprehension skills including central idea and summary, theme development, character development, tone and mood, plot and conflict, inference and evidence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, author’s purpose and perspective, point of view, text structure, claim and evidence, evaluating evidence, citing evidence, drawing conclusions, and comparing across texts.

Grammar and language practice includes independent and dependent clauses, simple/compound/complex sentences, pronoun case, active and passive voice, subject-verb agreement, phrases and clauses, commas, semicolons, colons, dialogue punctuation, apostrophes, parallel structure, misplaced modifiers, capitalization, transitions, consistent tense and voice, concise language, and editing.

Vocabulary and word study strengthen Greek and Latin roots, advanced affixes, context clues, connotation and denotation, homographs, homophones, figurative language, idioms, analogies, shades of meaning, and academic vocabulary.

The 16 included literacy games add engaging partner, small-group, and center practice. Activities include Clause Sort, Root Word Match, Synonym Match, Roll-a-Root Word, Academic Vocabulary BINGO, Multisyllable Roll & Read, Prefix Sort, Antonym Match, Reading Road Race, Central Idea Baskets, Claim or Evidence Sort, Sentence Building Tiles, Fix-It Cards, Sequence Cards, Homophone Match, and Figurative Language Sort.

Perfect for sixth grade morning work, bell ringers, Grade 5 skills review, middle school ELA, literacy centers, reading comprehension, grammar review, vocabulary development, intervention, homework, early finishers, or beginning-of-year formative assessment.

Give students a confident, structured start to sixth grade with 20 days of meaningful ELA review plus 16 engaging literacy games!