CR Nonfiction
CR Terms
CR Fiction
6th Grade ELA Skills
CR Poetry
100

An author's opinion about a topic/subject

What is author's POV?

100

In close reading, the first thing you when you get a text, before reading

What is previewing the text?

100

The person who the story revolves around. Sometimes he or she is the narrator

What is the main character?
100

When you use the clues around a word to guess its meaning

What is context clue?

200

In Close Reading, the things you should be thinking about as you are reading. (should also be part of the main idea jot)

What are Thinking jobs?

200

What the main character is struggling with

What is the Problem?

300

In nonfiction, this is what the text is about

What is the topic/subject of a text?

300

This rating/score means...

What is a score/rating of 2

300

When the problem in the story is resolved

What is resolution/solution?

300

When you make a conclusion about someone/something based on what what you know

what is inference?

400

In close reading, this is the way you track your thoughts and make your thinking visible

What are annotations?

400

Usually in fiction, it is the message that the author wants to teach you/the character in the story.

What is Lesson Learned?

400

Usually in poetry, what is happening in a text on the surface level

what is literal meaning?

500

This is a thinking job for nonfiction, what you learn about a topic//subject

What is teaching topic?

500

This rating/score means...

What is a score/rating of 1

500

When you find similarities between to things

What is making a connection?

500
In poetry, what is happening in a text on a deeper level/through analysis

What is deeper meaning?