Context Clues/ Vocabulary

Compares to unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Compares to unlike things using a word or phrase

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

a word or phrase that has a different meaning than what is being said

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Problem in the story

• conflict
• contrast
• solution
• inference

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

How you feel about something

• fact
• author's purpose
• opinion
• effect

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

use what you already know and evidence from the text to figure something out

• text evidence
• summary
• passage
• inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

how a person is on the inside 

• character
• character trait
• opinion
• theme

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

the message or lesson the author wants you to learn 

• theme
• main idea
• summary
• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

the reason an author writes a story or text 

• theme
• main idea
• summary
• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

person who wrote the words in the book

• character
• illustrator
• setting
• author

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6