How to read this page
Quebec publishes its curriculum as long official documents written for teachers. This page is the same content, translated for the fridge door: each subject below shows this year's units and the skills inside them. If a skill sounds unfamiliar, that's the point — now you know what to ask about at dinner.
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In Quebec, that's Mathematics, Grade 6 — 5 units, 105 skills.
Arithmetic
- Counts or recites counting rhymes involving natural numbers — counts forward or backward
- Counts collections (using objects or drawings)
- Counts collections (using objects or drawings) — counts a collection by grouping or regrouping
Geometry
- Locates objects on an axis (based on the types of numbers studied)
- Locates points in a Cartesian plane — in all four quadrants
- Matches the net of a convex polyhedron to the corresponding solid
Measurement
- Estimates and measures the dimensions of an object using conventional units — metre, decimetre, centimetre, millimetre and kilometre
- Establishes relationships between units of measure for length
- Estimates and measures surface area — using conventional units
Statistics
- Formulates questions for a survey (based on age-appropriate topics, students’ language level, etc.)
- Collects, describes and organizes data (classifies or categorizes) using tables
- Interprets data using a table, a bar graph, a pictograph, a broken-line graph and a circle graph
Probability
- When applicable, recognizes variability in possible outcomes (uncertainty)
- When applicable, recognizes equiprobability
- When applicable, becomes aware of the independence of events in an experiment
See the full Mathematics, Grade 6 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
English Language Arts this year
Reading, writing, and speaking skills deepen this year — less "can they read it," more "what do they make of it." In Quebec, that's English Language Arts, Grade 6 — 11 units, 70 skills.
Understanding the Conventions of Written Language
- Use: In simple and compound sentences
- Use: Selects words that convey the intended meaning and create a…
- Use: Uses quotation marks to punctuate dialogue
Producing and Interpreting Media Texts
- Use: Uses and interprets the visual element of color
Response Process
- Use: Uses knowledge of the genre/text type to be viewed/read:…
- Use: Relies on common structures and features of media texts to…
- Use: Cause- effect
Writing Process
- Use: Examines models of text type through immersion into the text
- Use: Adjusts writing decisions to purpose and audience
- Use: Deletes unnecessary details and/or information
Production Process (Media)
- Use: Determines criteria for production of a familiar text type
Self-Expressive: Reflective Texts
- Use: Synthesis of ideas and feelings to focus on what is most…
Narrative and Literary Texts
- Use: Illustrated wordless and picture books written for older…
- Use: Memoir in a variety of text types
- Use: Foreshadowing
Information-Based: Planning Texts
- Use: Webbing and mapping texts, such as story mapping, to…
- Use: Visuals such as graphic organizers used to articulate…
Information-Based: Explanatory Texts
- Use: Web sites (Reading and Viewing only)
- Use: Navigational aids such as table of contents or alphabetical…
Information-Based: Descriptive Reports
- Use: Local and national radio and television news reports that…
- Use: Subheadings and paragraphs to group and/or categorize…
Information-Based: Persuasive Texts
- Use: Public Service Ads and posters created for children
- Use: TV and/or movie reviews for peers or younger children
- Use: Use of persuasive images, words or phrases to promote a…
See the full English Language Arts, Grade 6 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Quebec, that's Science and Technology, Grade 6 — 3 units, 16 skills.
Material World
- Physical properties and buoyancy
- Chemical changes make new substances
- Circuits, conductors, and insulators
Earth and Space
- Rocks, minerals, and Earth's surface
- Natural phenomena and their impact
- Nonrenewable energy and heat transfer
Living Things
- Metabolism and reproduction
- Metamorphosis, human growth, and evolution
- Photosynthesis, respiration, and energy flow
See the full Science and Technology, Grade 6 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
French this year
French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In Quebec, that's Français, langue d’enseignement, 6e année — 9 units, 160 skills.
Écrire — Section Organisation et cohérence du texte
- Le paragraphe et le découpage du texte (paragraphs and text structure)
- L’ordre des idées dans le texte (ordering ideas in a text)
- L’ordre des idées dans le texte (ordering ideas in a text)
Écrire — Section Lexique
- La formation des mots (préfixes, suffixes) (word formation (prefixes, suffixes))
- La formation des mots (préfixes, suffixes) (word formation (prefixes, suffixes))
- Le sens des mots (propre, figuré) (word meanings (literal and figurative))
Écrire — Section Orthographe d’usage
- Les mots à l’étude (banque orthographique) (the study-word spelling bank)
- Les mots à l’étude (banque orthographique) (the study-word spelling bank)
- Le rôle des lettres muettes (silent letters)
Écrire — Section Conjugaison
- Les temps de conjugaison (verb tenses)
- Les temps de conjugaison (verb tenses)
- Découverte : Les temps de conjugaison (verb tenses)
Écrire — Section Accords
- Découverte : L’adjectif et son accord (the adjective and its agreement)
- Le nom, donneur d’accord (the noun as the source of agreement)
- La formation du féminin (forming the feminine)
Écrire — Section Syntaxe et ponctuation
- Le SUJET, le PRÉDICAT et le COMPLÉMENT DE PHRASE (sentence constituents)
- La ponctuation du dialogue (dialogue punctuation)
- Découverte : La forme négative (the negative form)
Compétence Lire des textes variés
- Reconnaître les genres de textes en lecture (recognising text genres in reading)
- Reconnaître les genres de textes en lecture (recognising text genres in reading)
- Reconnaître les genres de textes en lecture (recognising text genres in reading)
Compétence Apprécier des œuvres littéraires
- Connaître le livre (couverture, format) (the book's features)
- Porter un jugement critique sur une œuvre (forming a critical judgment)
- Comparer des œuvres (comparing works)
Compétence Communiquer oralement
- Prendre la parole (speaking up)
- Participer à un échange (taking part in an exchange)
- Participer à un échange (taking part in an exchange)
See the full Français, langue d’enseignement, 6e année curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
French as a Second Language this year
French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In Quebec, that's Français, langue seconde (Core), Grade 6 — 5 units, 33 skills.
Stratégies
- Use: l’explication
- Use: des tableaux, des schémas, des diagrammes, des graphiques, d
- Use: S’inspirer de modèles pour créer un texte
Vocabulaire utilisé à l’oral et à l’écrit
- Using French for core vocabulary (1)
- Using French for notions (time, space, quantity) (1)
- Using French for describing (1)
Conventions de communication orale ou écrite
- Use: Maintenir le contact visuel avec son interlocuteur ou son au
- Use: Produire un message en respectant certaines règles prosodiqu
Connaissances liées au texte oral ou écrit
- Use: raconter (ex. : un album, un conte, une saynète, une émissio
- Use: les intertitres
- Use: en tenant compte de certaines caractéristiques de son destin
Connaissances liées à la phrase
- Use: communiquer un fait, une information ou une opinion
- Use: Observer les mots qui permettent de faire un enchaînement en
- Use: nous, vous (sens pluriel)
See the full Français, langue seconde (Core), Grade 6 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
English as an Additional Language this year
English language skills for learners whose first language is something else — practical, everyday, encouraging. In Quebec, that's English as a Second Language (Core), Grade 6 — 5 units, 24 skills.
Contextual and Functional Language
- Using English: Asks for identification
- Using English: Uses personal pronouns and possessive forms in context to ta
Strategies
- Using English: Questions the pronunciation of new words read or heard
Language Conventions
- Using English: Places articles before nouns
- Using English: Writes commas between items in an enumeration
Text Components
- Using English: Uses knowledge of connecting words to construct meaning
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 6 in Quebec?
Quebec's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French, French as a Second Language, English as an Additional Language for Grade 6 — 419 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers arithmetic and geometry; English Language Arts covers understanding the conventions of written language and producing and interpreting media texts; Science covers material world and earth and space. The full list is on this page.
Is this the official Quebec curriculum?
It's built from Quebec's official program of studies, reorganized into plain language — and each subject links to a course page that quotes the ministry's own wording and links to the government source, so you can check our work. One honest caveat: we're not the ministry, curricula do change, and we can't guarantee this reflects the very latest revision, so confirm anything important against the live provincial curriculum data.
My child is finding one of these skills hard. What can I do?
That's normal — every skill on this page is one most kids wobble on at first. MapleMind teaches any of them one-on-one: a short lesson in plain words, a worked example, then solving together. It's free to start, on any device, in 14 languages.
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MapleMind isn't affiliated with any ministry of education. We build these guides from each province's official program of studies and refresh them from time to time — but curricula change, and we can't guarantee this page reflects the very latest revision. Always confirm against the live provincial curriculum data. Last updated 2026-08-15.
Social Studies this year
Social studies widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In Quebec, that's Social Sciences (Geography, History and Citizenship Education), Grade 6 — 4 units, 11 skills.
Organization of a society in its territory (Quebec society around 1980)
- Where and who: Quebec around 1980
+ 5 more skills in this unit →Change in a society and its territory
Diversity of societies and their territories
Researching and Techniques
- Communicating research results
+ 1 more skill in this unit →See the full Social Sciences (Geography, History and Citizenship Education), Grade 6 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →