ABC's of GRADE 6: ELA with Ms. A.

Argument writing is:

• Writing about a fight you had.

• A main idea, often called a “claim” backed up with evidence that supports the idea.

• Giving your opinion.

• Arguing on paper.

An anecdote is

• a medicine you take for a virus

• a medicine taken or given to counteract a particular poison

• a deer-like creature with horns

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

Claim in language arts means

• demand or request for something

• a shy person

• a claim is a statement that asserts something to be true

• a piece of land taken by someone

Dialogue is

• the words that characters speak

• usually marked with quotations

• a way to make your writing come to life

• all of the above

Evidence in language arts refers to

• facts and information to back up your claim

• the supporting details you use in your writing

• proof you committed the crime of learning

• Both A and B

First-person point of view means

• You were the first person there.

• A narrator outside the story is telling the story. Uses the pronouns "he and she."

• The story is told by someone within the story. Uses the pronouns "I, me, and we."

• Only one person experienced an event.

Formal language

• is used at recess and lunch

• uses slang words like, "What's up?"

• Uses contractions and personal pronouns.

• Does not use the pronouns "I and me" or contractions.

Giving feedback in language arts means

• Giving a peer advice on how to improve their writing

• Giving fashion advice to a friend

• Giving backtalk to the teacher

• Producing a sound in music when playing a guitar

Historical fiction is

• a true story that takes place in the past

• a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past

• an account of someone's life written by someone else.

• an account of a person's life written by that person.

Informational text is

• to give information to the reader

• organized into text structure

• absolutely true

• all of the above