Paragraph Workshops Definitions Quiz

What is the big idea around which the paragraph is organized?

• unity

• main idea

• topic sentence

• coherence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

Which word means that all the sentences in a paragraph relate to the main idea?

• topic sentence

• main idea

• unity

• description

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

Which word means that readers can easily see how ideas in the paragraph are related?

• main idea

• details

• coherence

• spatial

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2C

CCSS.RI.6.5

Which sentence states the main idea?

• spatial

• transitional words or phrases

• description

• topic sentence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What are sensory details?

• details about what you can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch

• details that show the organizational order

• ideas in the paragraph that are related to each other

• ideas that the paragraph are organized around

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3D

Which type of order is a way to organize details to show location--using near to far, left to right, top to bottom, etc.?

• coherence

• spatial order

• sensory

• chronological

Which word means to tell how two or more subjects are different?

• compare

• contrast

• evaluate

• review

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which word means show how two or more subjects are alike?

• evaluate

• describe

• compare

• contrast

What is the definition of narration?

• compare and contrast

• tell how something is alike or different

• tell how important something is

• tell how something changes over a period of time

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

What are transitional words or phrases

• words that change over time

• words that you take a letter away and use an apostrophe

• words that show what something looks like

• words that connect ideas and show the organizational order that is used

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2C

CCSS.W.6.1C