6th Grade Review
Someone who tells the story in a text
What is a narrator?
In order to distinguish two things from one another, you must be able to point out how they are __________.
What is different?
Writing the most important parts of a text, in your own words, in a much shorter way
What is a summary?
The first thing students should read on a Reading Benchmark.
What are the questions?
The primary reason an author writes a piece of work.
What is an author's purpose?
When a reader can picture something their mind, either because of imagery or descriptive writing, the reader can ________ it.
What is visualize?
Hints in a sentence, paragraph, or passage that help readers understand the meaning of new or unfamiliar words
What are context clues?
Students should do this to the most important words in the question
What is highlight?
The main purpose of a passage. What a piece of writing is mostly about.
What is the main idea/central idea?
When author's are defending their opinions or their side of the argument they are defending their __________.
What is position?
A story that is told or written, and can be fictional or non-fictional
What is a narrative?
Students should highlight these when reading the text
What are answers/things that match the question?
The final part of a text, where the main ideas are summed up and the text comes to an end
What is the conclusion?
Speculation is the opposite of fact, so it must be similar to this word
What is an opinion/assumption?
The process of rethinking and improving, or fixing, a piece of writing
What is revise/revision/revising?
Students that are stuck on a question should do this before they get frustrated.
What is skip it and come back to it?
Usually the end of a speech, piece of writing, or act that asks or encourages people to do something about a problem
Hint: A phrase
What is a Call to Action?
A conclusion, assumption, educated guess, or opinion that is reached because of known facts or textual evidence.
What is an inference?
Words or phrases that connect details smoothly.
What are transitions?
Before submitting their test, students should do this
What is look back over their test/double check their answers?