6th Grade ELA Key Terms

This is the most important point an author is trying to make about a topic.

• Nonfiction Central Idea

• Interjection

• Conjunction

• preposition

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

These are facts, examples, reasons, and other pieces of information that are meant to explain and expand on the central idea.

• Supporting Details

• Nonfiction Central Idea

• Interjection

• conjunction

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Look at the title, repeated words, pictures, first and last sentence.

• Strategies to Identify the Central Idea

• Supporting Details

• Nonfiction Central Idea

• interjection

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

This is a brief restatement of the article's important details and central ideas in your own words.

• Nonfiction Summary
• Strategies to Identify the Central Idea
• Supporting Details
• Nonfiction Central Idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

A summary must be this...meaning it does not include any opinions or personal beliefs.

• Objective
• Nonfiction Summary
• Strategies to Identify the Central Idea
• Supporting Details

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

This is when you examine somethings parts to see how they work together.

• Analyze
• Objective
• Nonfiction Summary
• Strategies to Identify the Central Idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

This is a reasonable guess, which is based on both evidence and prior knowledge of a topic.

• Inference
• Analyze
• Objective
• Nonfiction Summary

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Evidence + Schema = Inference

• What I Read + What I know = What I Infer
• Inference
• Analyze
• Objective

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

This is when the text states something directly. It is clearly stated.

• Explicitly
• What I Read + What I know = What I Infer
• Inference
• Analyze

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

This is a brief story about an interesting, funny, or strange event told to entertain or make a point.

• Anecdote
• Explicitly
• What I Read + What I know = What I Infer
• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2