Grade 6English Language
What your child actually learns this year
Every strand and every topic in the Grade 6 English Language curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.
1ReadingFour ways of reading, because reading for pleasure and reading for an answer are different skills.
Comprehension
4 skillsReading a passage and answering on what it actually said, including what it implied.
Intensive Reading
9 skillsReading a short text closely, for the detail inside it.
Extensive Reading
5 skillsReading at length for enjoyment, which is how vocabulary actually grows.
Fluency
3 skillsReading smoothly and at a sensible pace rather than decoding word by word.
2Grammar in UseThe largest strand of the year: the machinery of the language, taught in use rather than as rules to recite.
Word Usage
8 skillsChoosing the right word, and the pairs that get confused.
Contextual Grammar
1 skillsGrammar inside a real passage rather than in a drill, which is how it is examined.
Word Classes
12 skillsNouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and the rest: what each does in a sentence. The widest topic in the subject.
Tenses
1 skillsPutting a verb in the right time, and keeping it there across a paragraph.
3WritingFrom the shape of the letters to a whole composition.
Mechanics of Writing
8 skillsSpelling, punctuation and handwriting that somebody else can read.
Creative Writing
7 skillsYour child's own words on their own subject.
Functional Writing
5 skillsWriting that does a job: a letter, a notice, a message with a purpose.
Guided Compositions
2 skillsA whole piece written to a given frame, which is the form most often examined.
4Listening and SpeakingOne topic, and a large one: the half of English that leaves no written record.
Pronunciation and Vocabulary
18 skillsSaying it properly and having the word to hand. Eighteen skills, the widest topic in the subject.
Why you can take this page at face value
Straight from the KICD design
The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 6 English Language curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.
Nothing here is a sample
Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.
Marked by a machine, written by a person
Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.
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