Grade 6 – English – Term 3 Study List

Term 1 focuses on Fiction Texts. You will need to be familiar

with:
Literary Devices & Grammatical Features (important for analysing other texts):

• The Semi-colon and the Colon • Direct Speech

• Dashes (em, en, hyphen) • Syntax (interrogative, declarative,
• Metaphor exclamatory, imperative)
• Simile • Subordinate clause
• Personification • Phrase
• Sibilance • Alliteration
• Imagery (visual, olfactory, auditory, • Atmosphere and Suspense
gustatory, tactile) • Contrast
• Irony • Repetition
• Noun phrases • Rhyme
• Exclamation marks • Idiom
• Sentence length effects • Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole • Oxymoron
Elements of Non- Fiction (important for your Elements of Fiction (important for your
writing): writing):

• Purposes of non-fiction texts : • Characterisation (indirect & direct)

advising, informing, instructing, • Setting and Atmosphere
persuading • Narration (narrator)
• Inferencing • Plot
• Context clues • Conflict
• Characteristics of diary entries • Theme
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Craft and Structure
• Paragraphs
• Comprehension Strategies
• Reading and proofreading
Technical Aspects of Writing to remember:

• Ethos, Pathos, Logos • Remember to use indirect and

• Capital letters for proper nouns and new
sentences.
• Start a new paragraph for a change of
scenery, speaker, new topic, idea or
subject.
• Including varied and purposeful
paragraphing choices.
direct methods of characterisation.
• Use descriptive language in texts.
• Appeal to the senses in your
descriptions of people, places and
things.
• Changes to scenery