Vocabulary Velocity
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to non-human things, such as "The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
This text structure explains how two or more things are alike and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
In a story, this is the sequence of events that usually includes a rising action, climax, and resolution.
This is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning rather than what is explicitly stated.
What is an inference?
These words, like "and," "but," and "or," are used to connect words or phrases.
What are conjunctions?
Using the Greek root "graph," which means "to write," and "photo," which means "light," what is the definition of a "photograph"?
What is a picture written/drawn by light?
When a text is organized by the order in which events happened, it uses this structure.
What is chronological order or sequence?
A 6th grade reader should be able to explain how a characters reactions to challenges help reveal this "big idea" of a story.
What is the theme?
When you write down what a text says explicitly, you are stating this.
What is exactly what the text says?
This is the part of speech that shows relationship in time or space, such as "under," "over," or "during."
What is a preposition?
Identify the simile in this sentence: "After the long hike, his legs felt like lead weights."
What is felt like lead weights?
To answer an ACAP "short response" question accurately, you must use this to support your claim. (Think RACE method!)
What is a quote (or direct evidence from the text)?
This narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story.
What is third-person omnisicient?
To determine the "main idea" of a passage, you should look at the first and last sentences, but also look for these repeated items.
What are key details (or recurring words/topics)?
Identify the correlative conjunctions in this sentence: "Neither the teacher nor the students wanted the recess to end."
What are neither/nor?
This is the term for a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word, such as "vast" and "enormous."
What is a synonym?
This is the main difference between a firsthand account and a secondhand account of a historical event like the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
What is the perspective/source?
When two characters are talking in a play or a book, it is called this.
What is dialogue?
If a question asks you to "summarize" without your thoughts and opinions, it is asking you to create an _________ summary.
What is objective?
This verb tense is used to describe an action that has already happened: "The class had studied for the test."
What is past perfect?
Use context clues to define "meticulous": "The artist was meticulous, spending hours ensuring every tiny brushstroke was perfectly in place."
What is showing great attention to detail; very careful?
What does each letter stand for in the RACE method?
What is:
R - Restate the question
A - Answer the question
C - Cite textual evidence
E - Explain the evidence
In 6th grade, students must compare and contrast the themes or patterns of events in stories from the same genre, such as these two types of "old" stories?
"Been reading books of old, the ________ and the __________."
What are legends and myths?
This is what a reader is doing when they look at how a visual image (like a map or photo) contributes to the meaning of the written text.
What is interpreting visual/multimedia elements?
Where should you put a comma to separate the "introductory" word from the rest of the sentence: "Yes I would love to join the review game."
Where is after the word "Yes"?