6th Grade ELA
This is when 2 words means the same thing.
What is a synonym?
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
A well developed paragraph contains eight sentences
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The message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to take away from the story.
Theme
This figure of speech is being used in this sentence “The boy felt like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
The order that things happen in a story
Sequence of Events
You are writing about frog toads. You include information about their habitat, their eating, and reproductive patterns. This type of writing is informative in nature, also called explanatory or expository.
True: Explanatory or expository writing is writing that informs or explains a topic.
The author's intent to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Author's Purpose
This is what you call a book that talks about a person's life from beginning to end.
What is an Biography
The series of events in a story from beginning to end that includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
The plot
Give 3 examples of text features.
Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.
This is the a type of text which includes characters, acts, scenes and stage directions.
What is a play
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us?
First person point of view
Characters are having a conversation.
Dialogue
DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a point of view of someone telling the story using I, me, us, or we?
What is 1st person?
Point of view: they, she, he
Third Person Point of View
A comparison that uses like or as
What is a simile?
This is an essay that allows the writer to take a side and defend it
What is an opinion essay?
This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events and worlds
What is Fiction?
The trees welcomed us as we drove up the lane.
What is personification?
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story normally found in the back of novels.
What is a Summary?
This is conversations between characters in a literary text usually written between quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
Group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The order in which things begin and end using words like First, next, then, finally.
What is sequence of events
The message, moral or lesson of the story
What is Theme
The problem or challenge in a story.
What is the conflict