TCAP ELA Important Vocabulary

What is the main idea?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• What the passage is mostly about

• The moral or lesson of the story

• A major category or type of literature

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What are supporting details?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• Details that support the main idea

• The reason why something happens

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

What does drawing conclusions involve?

• Combining several pieces of information to make an inference

• Providing someone with amusement or enjoyment

• The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events

• Good at persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What is the definition of cause?

• The moral or lesson of the story

• The reason why something happens

• A major category or type of literature

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is an effect?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• The reason why something happens

• Result (what happened)

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is the 1st person point of view?

• The narrator is NOT involved in the story; uses "he," "she," "they"

• The narrator is a character in the story. (I, me, my, we, our)

• The moral or lesson of the story

• A major category or type of literature

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is the 3rd person point of view?

• The narrator is a character in the story. (I, me, my, we, our)

• The narrator is NOT involved in the story; uses "he," "she," "they"

• The moral or lesson of the story

• A major category or type of literature

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What are context clues?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• Details that support the main idea

• The reason why something happens

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does visualizing refer to?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• Details that support the main idea

• The reason why something happens

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What does it mean to persuade?

• To give information

• To convince

• To provide someone with amusement or enjoyment

• Intended to explain or describe something

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D