SSC 6th Grade LA Priority Vocabulary

Question 1

Phrases used to make writing more interesting.

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Literary Devices

Question 2

Parts of a nonfiction text that help the reader find information and understand what they read.

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Text Features

Question 3

A nonfiction piece of writing that informs the reader about a specific topic.

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Informational Text

Question 4

A struggle or battle a character experiences.

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Conflict

Question 5

Different ways of organizing information based on the author's purpose

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Organizational Patterns

Question 6

The statements that support the overall idea of text

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Supporting Details

Question 7

The overall idea of text

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Main Idea

Question 8

The series of events within a literary text.

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Plot Development

Question 9

The basic part of a word after all the affixes have been removed

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Root Word

Question 10

The author's opinions and beliefs.

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Author's Perspective

Question 11

The perspective from which a story is told

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Point of View

Question 12

The message or or life lesson the author wants the reader to learn.

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Theme

Question 13

The author's reason for writing.

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Author's Purpose

Question 14

A comparison of items based on their relationship.

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Analogy

Question 15

A prefix or suffix added to a root word to change meaning or part of speech.

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affix

Question 16

The steps a writer must follow to be successful (plan, draft, revise, edit, publish)

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Writing Process

Question 17

An educated guess at what will happen in the future

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Prediction

Question 18

Proof found within the text

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Text Evidence

Question 19

A shortened version of a text that includes the main idea and supporting details

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Summarize

Question 20

The way in which a character changes throughout a literary text.

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Character Development

Question 21

Using spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation to help make writing clear.

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Conventions

Question 22

Traditional stories told from generation to generation.

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Folklore

Question 23

Different genres of text determined by the author's reason for writing.

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Modes

Question 24

Taking someone else's work or ideas and claiming them as your own.

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Plagiarism

Question 25

A fictional piece of writing that tells a story or entertains.

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Literary Text

Question 26

The vocabulary a writer chooses to show meaning.

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Word Choice

Question 27

Hints an author gives to help define an unknown word

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Context Clues

Question 28

Conclusions made by using background knowledge and clues from the story

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Inference

Question 29

A statement proven by the text.

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Thesis

SSC 6th Grade LA Priority Vocabulary

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SSC 6th Grade LA Priority Vocabulary

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