Free Year 6 English worksheets
23 free printable Year 6 English worksheets, one for each unit, for children aged 10 to 11. Open a unit to print its first sheet, with the answers on a separate page for you.
The units are in the order they are taught across the year. The full Year 6 English set is 187 sheets, one for each lesson, and comes with a StudyDen plan. The Year 6 English lesson list shows what each unit teaches.
Every Year 6 English unit
- Using five sentence types
Week 1 · free sheet: Three kinds of clause · 4 sheets in the unit
- Key terminology, including determiners, fronted adverbials and parenthesis
Weeks 1 to 2 · free sheet: Little words, big meaning · 4 sheets in the unit
- Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice
Week 2 · free sheet: Tenses with helping verbs · 4 sheets in the unit
- Punctuation
Weeks 3 to 4 · free sheet: Where the apostrophe sits · 8 sheets in the unit
- Review, including word class, sentence types, tense, commas and colons
Weeks 4 to 5 · free sheet: Word jobs in sentences · 10 sheets in the unit
- Homophones and tense
Weeks 6 to 9 · free sheet: Same spelling, two meanings · 19 sheets in the unit
- Letter strings, etymology and curriculum words
Weeks 9 to 12 · free sheet: Ough and au sounds · 16 sheets in the unit
- Review and revision of all taught spelling
Weeks 12 to 13 · free sheet: Suffix spelling patterns · 3 sheets in the unit
- Building fluency with note taking, choice, quotations and emphasis
Weeks 13 to 14 · free sheet: Fast notes you can read · 6 sheets in the unit
- Emotions words
Weeks 14 to 15 · free sheet: Hope words: auspicious or sanguine · 8 sheets in the unit
- Setting words
Weeks 16 to 17 · free sheet: Precise words, any setting · 8 sheets in the unit
- Developing reading preferences in Year 6
Weeks 17 to 18 · free sheet: Who am I as a reader? · 4 sheets in the unit
- Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet': diary and narrative writing
Weeks 18 to 20 · free sheet: Why the story ends so sadly · 12 sheets in the unit
- 'Sherlock Holmes': descriptive and letter writing
Weeks 20 to 23 · free sheet: Victorian London and Holmes · 16 sheets in the unit
- Debating important topics
Week 24 · free sheet: How to debate · 5 sheets in the unit
- Charles Darwin: biographical writing
Weeks 25 to 26 · free sheet: Features of a Biography · 7 sheets in the unit
- Antarctic animals: non-chronological report
Weeks 26 to 28 · free sheet: Finding the report's features · 12 sheets in the unit
- 'When Stars are Scattered': book club
Weeks 28 to 29 · free sheet: Callouts and Omar's story · 2 sheets in the unit
- When the Sky Falls: reading
Weeks 29 to 30 · free sheet: Reading the clues in people · 5 sheets in the unit
- 'When the Sky Falls': narrative and journalistic report writing
Weeks 30 to 32 · free sheet: Finding the shape of a story · 10 sheets in the unit
- Poetry of place
Weeks 32 to 34 · free sheet: Senses in a poem · 12 sheets in the unit
- Early Islamic civilisation: essay writing
Weeks 34 to 35 · free sheet: Features of an essay · 7 sheets in the unit
- Talking transitions
Week 36 · free sheet: Talking about big changes · 5 sheets in the unit
Every Year 6 English worksheet
The worksheets plan opens a printable sheet for every lesson in Years 1 to 6, each with its answers on a separate page for you. It costs £6.99 a month or £59 a year for the whole family, with no free trial.
The full StudyDen plan adds the lessons themselves, marked as your child works, with the worksheets included. It is 7 days free, then £29.99 a month.
Both start with a free account; you choose the plan when you sign up.