6th Grade MAP ELA Terms

What is:

the clues and ideas that most of the passage covers.

• Claim

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Inferences

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is:

the series of events that every story is made of.

• Narrative

• Introduction

• Connotation

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is:

The underlying message the author is trying to tell the reader. Sometimes it is a moral lesson.

• Theme

• Point of VIew

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is:

a strong opinion about a topic or issue that the author states and then uses evidence to prove their view point.

• metaphor

• resolution

• claim/thesis

• theme

What is:

the narrator's position in relation to a story being told

• point of view

• author's purpose

• personification

• main idea

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Which point of view uses the pronoun "I"?

• Third Person Omniscient

• Third Person Limited

• First Person

• Second Person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which point of view uses the pronoun "you"? You the reader become part of the story.

• First Person

• Third Person Limited

• Second Person

• Third Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which point of view does the reader know ALL the characters thoughts, feelings, and actions?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

An inference is....

• the main idea of the story

• the underlying message

• an educated guess that uses story evidence to conclude.

• a common phrase whose meaning is only known through common use.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What is:

Figurative Meaning

• an expression that is used to achieve a particular effect.

• an exaggeration of literal meaning.

• comparing two unlike things.

• emotional suggestion of words.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4