Free Year 6 English Worksheets for Teachers

Year 6 gothic reading comprehension: The Whispering Manor passage with five questions on figurative language, inference, prediction and summarising.

Year 6 summarising worksheet: The Blackout story with a five-branch mind map for main ideas and key details. Two pages, free to print.

Year 6 classic fiction inference worksheet: Silas and Miss Agatha in the library, seven questions, an evidence table and a full answer key.

Year 6 poetry vocabulary worksheet with frames for imagery, metaphor, personification, connotation and symbolism, plus a worked example and answers.

Year 6 non-fiction comparison worksheet: sort nine statements about two zoo texts into a Venn diagram. Fact, opinion and answer key included.

Year 6 SATs-style reading paper: a fox story and an urban foxes report with 13 marked questions, including two that use both texts.

Year 6 writing worksheet on audience and purpose: identify three extracts, up-level a park paragraph and plan an eco-garden letter.

Year 6 edit and improve worksheet: fix tense slips and up-level vocabulary in sentences, a forest paragraph and a dragon climax. Model answers.

Year 6 narrative writing worksheet: build atmosphere and tension in The Forgotten Greenhouse with three planning questions and a 12-word bank.

Year 6 story planning worksheet: pitch a story for the Edge of Your Seat anthology using a six-panel storyboard with pace notes.

Year 6 formal and informal register worksheet: a Point, Evidence, Explain, Link model, a text message to analyse and a skate park letter task.

Year 6 balanced argument worksheet: sentence frames for a debate on children owning mobile phones, with linking words and model answers.

Year 6 SPaG mixed practice: rewrite sentences in the passive, add parenthesis about Mount Everest and a sports car, and place semi-colons.

Year 6 SPaG starter on hyphens, synonyms and antonyms: the man-eating shark, re-cover, gigantic and courageous. Seven questions with answers.

Year 6 SATs-style grammar and punctuation mock: four sections on word classes, passive voice, relative clauses and punctuation, with a mark scheme.

Year 6 passive voice cloze: a Junior Reporter guide with 12 gaps and a word bank of terms like auxiliary and participle. Answers included.

Year 6 formal, informal and subjunctive sorting worksheet: 15 phrases for a newspaper style guide, two review questions and an answer key.

Year 6 punctuation check on semi-colons, colons and dashes: a match-up, gap fills, comma splices and bullet points. Ten questions with answers.

Year 6 spelling worksheet: silent letters, homophones such as aisle and isle, prefixes and suffixes, and dictionary skills. Three pages, free.

Year 6 ough word search: 12 tricky words such as plough, thorough and enough hidden in four directions. Answer key with grid positions.

Year 6 statutory spelling practice: ten Year 5 and 6 words such as yacht and rhythm, with Look, Cover, Write, Check and handwriting.

Year 6 homophones match-up: 14 words including desert, principle, precede and complement, plus a sentence challenge and full answers.

Year 6 spelling anagrams for -ant, -ance, -ent and -ence words: ten scrambles with clues, challenge sentences and a mystery word.

Year 6 spelling crossword on -cious, -tious, -cial and -tial endings: eight clues with definitions, letter counts and an answer key.