NB Grade 6 English Reading study guide
NB Grade 6 English Reading · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The New Brunswick Grade 6 English Reading Assessment is a provincial reading test taken by Grade 6 students in New Brunswick, Canada, as part of the province's elementary literacy assessment program. It is written for students near the end of the Grade 6 year, not for adults or for professional certification, so its purpose is to show how well a student understands grade-level fiction and nonfiction rather than to rank candidates against one another. The NB Grade 6 English Reading study guide has 6 sections and about 1,936 words.
01Reading Comprehension - Informational Text
Informational text teaches facts about a real topic. When you read it, your job is to pull out the central idea , the supporting details that prove it, and the text features that organize it.
359 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension - Literary Text
Literary text tells a story or shares a feeling. To read it well, track characters (what they want and how they change), setting , plot (conflict, rising action, climax, resolution), and theme (the lesson about life).
333 words, about 2 min03Vocabulary and Word Meaning in Context
Vocabulary questions test whether you can figure out an unknown word from the words around it. Use context clues : definitions, examples, restatements, contrasts, and cause-and-effect relationships.
296 words, about 1 min04Main Idea, Supporting Details, and Summarization
You must decide what a passage is mostly about, find the details that support it, and condense the passage into a short summary. The main idea is often stated at the beginning or end of a passage, but sometimes it is implied and you must build it yourself.
338 words, about 2 min05Inference, Interpretation, and Author's Purpose
Inference means reading between the lines: using clues in the text plus your own knowledge to reach a conclusion the author did not state directly. Interpretation means explaining what a passage, character, or image really means.
296 words, about 1 min06Text Structure, Features, and Genre Awareness
This domain tests whether you recognize how a text is built and what kind of text it is. Text structure is the way ideas are organized: compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, chronological order, and description.
314 words, about 2 min