6th ELA Milestones Vocabulary (Coach Book Glossary)

A plot with a lot of action in which characters go on a journey.

• Author's purpose

• Nonfiction

• Adventure story

• Context clues

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The beginning or ending of a word that can change the meaning of a root word

• Suffix

• Affix

• Prefix

• Context clues

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A book of facts published each year, with lists of important events that occurred that year

• Atlas

• Encyclopedia

• Periodical

• Almanac

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1B

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

The word that a pronoun refers to

• Antecedent

• Argument

• Intensive

• Connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A book of maps

• Almanac

• Atlas

• Encyclopedia

• Periodicals

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

The reason an author writes (to inform, to persuade, to describe, to entertain)

• Antecedent

• Author's purpose

• Bias

• Argument

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A propaganda technique that tries to convince a reader to do something because everyone else is doing it

• Compare/contrast

• Climax

• Bandwagon

• Connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A prejudice toward one point of view

• Connotation

• Bibliography

• Conflict

• Bias

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A list of sources used for a report or written project

• Book

• Denotation

• Periodicals

• Bibliography

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A long story written in sentences and paragraphs and possibly divided into chapters

• Periodicals

• Book

• Research

• Draft

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D