6th Grade
Sixth graders learn to analyze what they're reading, summarizing plot and themes.
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Resources for 6th Grade
Key to Geometry, Book 4: Perpendiculars
A three-dollar consumable workbook that teaches perpendicular constructions with a compass and straightedge. One of the cheapest genuine geometry resources in print.
Key to Geometry, Book 7: Perpendiculars and Parallels, Chords and Tangents, Circles
The seventh workbook in the compass-and-straightedge series that teaches geometry by construction. Self-paced, consumable, and unusually gentle on math-anxious students.
Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar
Short explanations followed by heavy drill, from McGraw-Hill's long-running self-study series. Cheap, plentiful practice.
Side by Side: Student Book 1 (Third Edition)
A conversation-first beginner course built around guided dialogues, which makes it one of the few ESL books that works with two people at a kitchen table.
Essential Grammar in Use with Answers
Raymond Murphy's elementary grammar reference, built on a two-page unit format that makes it genuinely usable for self-study.
Basic English Grammar Workbook (Azar-Hagen, 5th Edition)
The grammar series most ESL teacher training programs are built around, in workbook form with a full answer key for self-study.
Oxford Picture Dictionary Content Areas for Kids (English-Spanish)
The school-subject vocabulary an English learner needs to actually follow a math or science lesson, with Spanish translations alongside.
Oxford Picture Dictionary, Third Edition
The standard visual dictionary in ESL classrooms worldwide: roughly 4,000 words organized by real-life situation rather than alphabetically.
English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1: Beginner
The written practice half of DK's Level 1 course. Buy it with the course book, not instead of it.
English for Everyone Course Book Level 1: Beginner
DK's visual self-study English course, built so a complete beginner can work through it alone without a teacher explaining every page.
Late, Lost, and Unprepared
A clinical psychologist's parent guide to executive functioning, organized skill by skill so you can work on the one your child actually struggles with.
How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up
A short, cartoon-illustrated book written directly to kids aged 8-13 about why homework feels awful and what to actually do about it. Read it in an afternoon.