Grade 6 Module 1 Study Guide

For Central Idea, sort the descriptions by each category.

Groups:

(a) Look for text clues

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(b) Evaluate Details

• Examples

• Evidence

• Repeated Words

• Facts

• Visuals

• Headings

• Description

• First or Last Sentence

Sort each description with the best literary element description

Groups:

(a) Characters

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(b) Setting

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(c) Plot

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(d) Events

• Things to build the plot.

• What do other characters say and thinkg about them?

• Things that affect the mood

• Things that change a character

• Conflict - the main problem that a character faces

• Things that happen in a story

• What do they say and think?

• When the story takes place

• Resolution - how the conflict or problem is solved

• Where the story takes place

• What do they do?

• the people and animals in a story

Match the description with the best part of a story

Groups:

(a) Theme

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(b) Central Idea

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(c) Literary Elements

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(d) Retelling

• Setting

• Think about Who, What, But, and How to help complete this.

• The main message, lesson, or moral of the text.

• Pieces that make up a story

• Evaluate details to determine this.

• Identified using context clues

• Plot

• Can be implied and determined using text clues.

• Helps understand the story better

• Characters

• Events

Correctly align each technique in an Author's Craft with the definition and example.

Groups:

(a) Voice

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(b) Mood

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(c) Anectdote

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(d) Hyperbole

• Artcle - serious or thoughtful

• The author's writing style that make his or her writing unique

• Mystery - suspense or surprise

• Fantasy - wonder or excitement

• Emotions and feelings of the reader while reading a text

• That's the best idea I have ever heard in my life!

• While on a field trip, the teacher tells students about a field trip she took as a student.

• Short, funny, or interesting story related to a character or events

• May change depending on the genre of the text

• Exaggerations that make things sound bigger, better, or more than what they truly are

Using the prefix "ex" and "e", which mean "out of" or "not", ​ (a)   means a part taken out of a larger work.

• excerpt
• exception
• excavate
• exceed

Using the prefix "ex" and "e", which mean "out of" or "not", ​ (a)   means something that is out of the general rule.

• excerpt
• exception
• excavate
• exceed

Using the prefix "ex" and "e", which mean "out of" or "not", ​ (a)   means to dig up out of the ground.

• excerpt
• exception
• excavate
• exceed

Using the prefix "ex" and "e", which mean "out of" or "not", ​ (a)   means to go out of or beyond the limit.

• excerpt
• exception
• excavate
• exceed

Match each word with the best definition.

• Dejected

• Crowding

• Exhaled

• You make sure you have what is necessary to do well

• Equipped

• Breathed out

• Congestion

• Keeps other things steady

• Stabilizing

• Feel sad and hopeless

A person in a business who decides what should be done.

• Executive

• Harnesses

• Fundamentals

• Congestion