These Year 6 English worksheets are structured around narratives, non-fiction and poetry. They will support work you’re doing across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching.

The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 6 and are designed to be used flexibly, alongside a teacher or parent.

Each Year 6 English worksheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types:

• Understanding and engaging with texts
• Shaping texts
• Sentence structure and punctuation
• Spelling

Each unit contains a mixture of these activity types.

Example Year 6 English worksheets

These are just some of the Year 6 English worksheets included in this download:

• Genre – Read the extracts and work out what type of story the author is telling in each case
• Describing a character – Write a paragraph to describe each character. Think about whether you want the reader to like your character or not and reflect this in the words and phrases you choose
• Dashes – Insert the missing dashes into the sentences
• Conversations – Add the correct punctuation to the extracts
• Biography – Underline or highlight the key information in the text. Make your own notes so that you could tell someone about Louis Pasteur in less than 50 words
• Non-chronological report – Group the notes into paragraphs for a report about Isaac Newton. Draft the first two paragraphs of the report
• Complex sentences – Insert commas into the sentences then underline the main clause
• Prefixes – Add the correct prefix to each word. Use a dictionary to check any you are unsure of
• News report – Read the news report, then identify and label the features
• News report – Read the letter from a World War II parent to their child who has been evacuated. Underline the facts about the bombing. Use these to write a news report about it

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