6th Grade Academic Vocabulary

to explain the most important part of the text or story

• contradict

• differentiate

• summarize

• evaluate

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.4.6

to examine carefully; separate into parts

• contradict

• infer

• paraphrase

• analyze

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RF.1.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4A

occurring BEFORE something else

• conclude

• previous

• narrate

• passage

Tags

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

another way of saying “text” or “piece of writing”

• passage

• text

• essay

• all of the above

to describe something

• characterize

• imply

• paraphrase

• summarize

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

to use YOUR OWN words but keep the same meaning as the original text or speaker

• differentiate

• summarize

• paraphrase

• contradict

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

arranged in time order

• chronological

• narrator

• previous

• passage

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

a person who tells a story

• character

• evaluator

• passage

• narrator

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

to bring to an end or decide

• differentiate

• infer

• conclude

• elaborate

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

to stand against or take the opposite opinion

• imply

• contradict

• analyze

• characterize

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.6