6th Grade ELA Milestones Vocab Matching

Match the following:

• Author tells you

  what you need to know

• Inference

• Main idea/ important point

  in a text

• Objective Summary

• Stories

  Dramas

  Poems

• Explicit Idea

• Conclusion based on

  evidence

• Literary Texts

• An overview

  of the main points

• Central Idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Match the following

• Solution to the problem in a story

• Resolution

• The message of a literary text

• Characterization

• Author’s attitude

  about subject/

  audience

• Theme

• Order of events in a story

• Plot

• The way author develops a character

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

Match the following

• Actual meaning of words and phrases

• Personification

• NOT literal meaning of words and phrases

• Metaphor

• Comparison using like or as

• Simile

• Author describes an object as a person

• Literal Language

• Comparison where one thing is another

• Figurative Language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the following

• She is as pretty as her mother.

• Personification

• The recess was a zoo.

• Simile

• The trees sighed.

• Metaphor

• My father can lift two tons.

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the following

• Words that imitate sounds

• Idiom

• Words that repeat vowel sounds

  (no rhyme)

• Alliteration

• Expression specific to a language

• Assonance

• Words that use the same sound to start

• Hyperbole

• Exaggeration beyond belief

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match the following

• cake/lane

  eat/eel

• Idiom

• The beautiful butterfly blew by the bay.

• Alliteration

• It was raining cats and dogs!

• Assonance

• meow, pop, fizz, clop, chop

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match the following

• Beyond explicit:

  'childlike' - innocence

• Denotative Meaning

• Explicit: 'helpful' - of service

• Connotative Meaning

• personification

  simile

  metaphor

  hyperbole

• Structure

• Breaks pieces into smaller portions

• Types of Structure

• chapter

  scene

  stanza

• Types of figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.7.2D

Match the following

• Section of a poem

• Stanza

• Section of a drama or play

• Point of View

• Where and when a story takes place

• Setting

• Section of a book

• Chapter

• Narrator's perspective

• Scene

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Match the following

• I/We fell.

• 1st Person

  Point of View

• He/She/It/They fell.

• 2nd Person Point of View

• You fell.

• 3rd Person

  Point of View

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Match the following

• Analyzing differences between

  two things

• Genre

• Analyzing things in relation to each oth

• Comparing

• Category of text: fiction or nonfiction

• Narrator

• Character telling story from her point

• Contrasting

• Voice of writer's feelings and situation

• Speaker

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.L.7.6