AIR Test Vocabulary

The key points made in a text, the main idea

• Central Idea

• Details

• First Person

• Evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea

• Essay

• Details

• cite

• Describe

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.W.6.2B

CCSS.W.6.9A

Facts, statements, or physical signs that prove something

• Compare

• Central Idea

• Evidence

• Analyze

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.SL.6.3

CCSS.W.6.9A

A belief or feeling about something not based on fact

• describe

• Analyze

• Identify

• Opinion

Telling the main points briefly; to tell the main points in a short, simple, and clear way

• details

• affect

• phrase

• summarize

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

To make clear or plain for someone to understand

• Explain

• Describe

• Select

• prompt

To examine 2 or more items in order to note what is the same and different

• interpret

• convince

• compare

• argue

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.W.6.2A

CCSS.W.6.9B

to give or provide the meaning for an unclear concept

• contrast

• setting

• theme

• interpret

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4C

The central message, what the author wants you to know; often inferred by the reader

• summarize

• plot

• details

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Words not having their literal meaning, used for dramatic effect

• Quote

• Refer

• Figurative Language

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4