Island of the Blue Dolphins Vocabulary

The distance covered in a series of single steps, often used as a measure of length or distance

• paces

• limp

• inference

• gathering

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4D

The long, narrow body connected to the head of an arrow or spear

• shaft

• limp

• analyze

• text evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Drooping, sagging, wilted, lacking energy

• limp

• fortunate

• shaft

• text evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Lucky; having to do with a good event or situation; receiving something good

• fortunate

• inference

• analyze

• paces

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Bringing things or people together as a group; collecting

• gathering

• fortunate

• inference

• shaft

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Ideas and details in a text that can be used to support an inference

• text evidence

• analyze

• gathering

• limp

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

An educated guess using prior knowledge (schema), text evidence, and reasoning

• inference

• analyze

• fortunate

• shaft

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

Looking at something thoroughly and closely

• analyze

• text evidence

• gathering

• paces

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.5

The purple rock that hides the buried treasure is ten ______ away from the large tree.

• paces

• limp

• analyze

• gathering

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

She fitted the point of the arrow to its wooden _______.

• shaft

• fortunate

• inference

• analyze

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4