Printables
30 sheets to print, grouped by learning area. Grade 6 sheets ask a child to explain and to check — why the ice expands, whether the answer fits the estimate, what the loan really costs — and several are shaped like the June tests. The instruction line at the top is addressed to you.
Reading and writing
English language arts and literature
Reasons that hold up
Make your case
Your class has $300 to spend: a buddy bench, or new sports equipment? Tick whether each statement helps an argument or not. Then make your own case — a claim, a reason, and evidence.
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Inference
Reading between the lines
Read the passage. None of the answers are said straight out — find the clues, and write the clue down as well as the answer.
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Make it sound like you
Revise for voice
This paragraph is correct, but flat. Count the tired words, then rewrite it so it sounds like a real person was there: sharper verbs, one detail you can see or hear, and sentences that don't all start the same way.
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Accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation
Proofread it
This paragraph has 10 mistakes: capitals, homophones, an apostrophe, grammar and spelling. Read it aloud slowly, circle each mistake and write the correction above it.
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Techniques and audience
How texts persuade
Read the advertisement. Each numbered line uses one technique — write the line number beside each technique. Then answer the questions about who it is for and what it leaves out.
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The two achievement-test assignments
Plan before you write
The Grade 6 writing test asks for one non-fiction piece and one fiction piece in two hours. Practise the planning: ten minutes for each plan, then write one of them in full on lined paper.
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Below zero and beyond
Mathematics
Negative numbers
Below zero
Write the number at each lettered point, and put < or > between each pair. Then add: a number and its opposite make zero, and subtracting is the same as adding the opposite.
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Exponents and prime factors
Powers and primes
Work out each power. Write each multiplication as a power. Circle the primes. Then break each number into prime factors with a factor tree, and write the answer using powers.
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Without a calculator
Decimals: multiply and share
Estimate first, then multiply or divide. Line the decimal point up in the answer — and check it against the estimate.
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Adding, subtracting and multiplying fractions
Different denominators
Find a common denominator first — the pieces have to be the same size before they can be added. Then multiply each fraction by the whole number. Simplify where you can.
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Comparing amounts
Rates and ratios
Juice is mixed 1 can of concentrate to 4 cans of water. Fill in the table so every column is the same mix. Then find each unit rate — the amount for one.
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Equations
Solve for n
An equation is a balance: whatever is done to one side is done to the other. Find n, then check it by putting it back in. The last two take two steps — undo the adding or subtracting first.
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The Cartesian plane
Four quadrants
Across first, then up or down. A negative first number means go left; a negative second number means go down. Write the coordinates of P, Q, R and S, then plot and label the five points and name each one's quadrant.
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Flat and solid
Area and volume
A parallelogram's area is base × height, where the height is measured straight up from the base. A triangle is half of a parallelogram with the same base and height. The volume of a box is length × width × height, in cubic units.
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Functions: one quantity depends on another
Rules and tables
A candle is 10 cm tall and burns down 2 cm every hour. The hours are the independent variable; the height depends on them. Fill in the table, plot the points (hours across, height up), and write the rule.
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Relative frequency
How often?
A spinner has four equal parts: red, blue, green and yellow. A class spun it 40 times. Write each colour's relative frequency three ways. Then use the coin results to see what more trials do.
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15 number questions, 30 minutes, no calculator
Part A warm-up
This is shaped like Part A of the Grade 6 math achievement test: 15 number questions, no calculator. Set a timer for 30 minutes. Scrap paper is allowed.
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How things work
Science
Expansion and contraction
Hot and cold
For each situation, write whether something is being heated or cooled, and whether it expands or contracts. Then explain one using the word particles.
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Inside, outside, action and reaction
Forces in action
Tick the internal force in each object: tension (pulled), compression (squeezed), shear (pushed in opposite directions) or torsion (twisted). Then name each external force, and answer the last two.
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Energy resources and how they are managed
Choosing energy
Tick whether each energy resource is used as it is found (before processing) or only after it has been processed — refined, piped, or turned into electricity. Then weigh up a real choice.
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And what changes it
What makes a climate
Answer each question and name the factor it is about: distance from the equator (latitude), height above sea level (elevation), or nearness to water. Then tick whether each action adds to or cuts greenhouse gases.
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Living, non-living, and who eats whom
An ecosystem web
Write B for living (biotic) or A for non-living (abiotic) beside each part of the forest. Then draw arrows from each food to whatever eats it — the arrow shows where the energy goes. Finally, name four organisms' roles.
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Distances and exploration
The solar system to scale
Build a model where 1 astronomical unit (AU) is 50 cm. Multiply each planet's distance from the Sun by 50 to get its distance in the model. Earth is done for you.
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Reading code
Loops and conditions
Follow each program one line at a time, keeping track of the numbers in the box beside it. Then use a loop to shorten the robot's program.
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Explanation and prediction
Make a hypothesis
Write O, H or E beside each statement: an observation (what was seen), a hypothesis (a testable prediction with a reason) or an explanation (why it happened). Then write your own hypothesis and plan a fair test.
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Moving and feeling good
Physical education and wellness
Training principles
A FITT week
Plan a week of activity. For each day, write the type and the minutes, and circle how hard it is by the talk test. Then check it against Canada's guidelines.
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Disagreeing and staying friends
Hear them out
Your friend wants to spend Saturday at the skate park. You want to go to the library's maker day. Tick whether each response considers your friend or shuts them down. Then practise your own.
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Risks and decisions
Think it through
Tick whether each risk is healthy (it could help you grow) or unsafe (it could hurt you or someone else). Then think one dare all the way through before deciding.
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What decides what a family can eat
Food access
The same groceries cost different amounts in different places. Add up both baskets — the prices are examples, not from real stores — then think about what else decides what a family can eat.
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The cost of getting it now
Borrowing money
A bike costs $240. Work out each plan, then decide which you would choose and why.
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Before you print
- Everything is drawn as outlines, so a sheet costs almost no ink.
- Each sheet is one page. Use your browser's print button, or the one at the top of the sheet.
- Most sheets have a short for the grown-up note underneath with the answers and what to watch for. It does not print with the sheet.
- No calculators on the math and science sheets — the June tests don't allow one either.