Identify - to point out individual features or characteristics, Theme - the life lesson or "the message" the main character learns, Predict - to make a guess about a future event or consequence, Context Clues - info. found in a text that helps define an unknown word or idea, Analyze - to break down into parts and examine to determine meaning, Summarize - to state or write the most important parts of a text in shortened form , Text Evidence - phrases or sentences from the selection that support one’s viewpoint or idea, Infer - using clues in text and one's own knowledge to figure out the answer, Argue - give reasons to support or go against an idea, Point of View - the position or angle from which a story is told, Details - small pieces of text that support big ideas, Text Structure - how the text is organized, Compare/Contrast - To find similarities (compare)/ to find differences (contrast), Central/Main Idea - The topic of a text, considered to be the most important, Author's Purpose - The reason an author is writing a selection, Mood - the emotions that a text makes the reader feel, Tone - general feeling or attitude given by the author, Claim - an answer to a debatable question; to state one side of an argument as truthful , Chronological - arrangement of events in the order in which they occurred, Figurative Language - words or phrases used for effect, humor, or exaggeration, instead of their literal meaning, Symbol - an object, person, situation, or action that has one meaning but can represent something else , Stanza - a group of lines in a poem (poem paragraph), Fiction - F = Fake. Written work created from the imagination, and is not presented as fact, though it may be based on actual events, Non-Fiction - (N)on-(F)iction= Not Fake. , Plot - the sequence of events throughout a story, Connotation - feelings/vibe/mood or ideas connected to a single word, Denotation - the dictionary definition of a word, Genre - category or type of literature (fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, science fiction), Text Features - elements of any text other than the writing itself which helps you locate and learn info (headings, sub-headings, graphs, charts, pictures, titles), Thesis - Focus statement of an essay: usually the last sentence of the introduction paragraph,

6th Grade ELA Vocab.

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