Welcome to 6th Grade Language Arts!

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact (7)
  2. 5. A language user's knowledge of words (10)
  3. 10. Creative writing of recognized artistic value (10)
  4. 12. A connection allowing access between persons or places (13)
  5. 14. The act of creating written works (7)
  6. 16. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. A machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves (6)
  2. 3. The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical (10)
  3. 4. Prose writing that is not fictional (10)
  4. 6. A written document describing the findings of some individual or group (plural) (7)
  5. 7. Preparatory school work done outside school (8)
  6. 8. Forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage (8)
  7. 9. A thin cylindrical pointed writing implement (plural) (7)
  8. 11. Literature in metrical form (6)
  9. 13. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows (plural) (4)
  10. 15. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction (plural) (6)