Reading 6th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This is the part of a paragraph that tells the reader what the rest of the paragraph will be about.
What is the Topic Sentence?
What are Quotation Marks?
The color used for VOCAB in annotations.
What is Purple?
This word means it is directly stated (right there!) information.
explicit
A word opposite in meaning to another
What is an antonym?
This is a retell of a story/article that is only the most important parts of the story/article in your own words.
What is the summary?
This text structure tells the events in order.
What is Sequence?
The genre of writing that is true, with real life facts.
What is Non-fiction?
This is a short narrative that contains a moral or principle of human behavior (e.g., Aesop's The Hare and the Tortoise - slow and steady wins the race)
What is a fable?
This text structure could be used if an author wanted to describe the differences and similarities between cats and dogs.
What is compare and contrast?
This type of writing can be fiction or non-fiction, but is usually written as a story with characters, setting, a plot, and descriptive details.
What is narrative writing?
What the story/text/article is MOSTLY about?
What is Main Idea?
A poem that has 3 lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables
What is a Haiku Poem?
These are phrases or expressions that have meanings different from the literal (e.g., The kids clean their rooms once in a blue moon.)
What is an idiom?
. This is the moral is the lesson that the writer wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
When characters/people are having a conversation in a story.
What is dialogue?
A poem in which the topic goes down the page, and the first letter matches the sentence.
What is a Acrostic Poem?
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
a conclusion reached on the basis of text evidence and your background knowledge.
What is an inference?
The most important sentence in an essay, that tells the reader what the entire essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
The piece of the word that is added to FRONT of root word that changes the meaning of the entire word.
What is prefix?
The person in a fictional narrative who relates the account or story
Who is a narrator?
A narrative of ancient origin that a particular cultural group believes to be a true explanation of why the world is as it is and that provides a rationale and rules for societal customs (e.g., The Adventures of Perseus)
What is a myth?