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6th Grade ELA Academic Vocabulary

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  • The most important idea in a text (main idea)
    Central Idea
    Thesis
    Main Points
    Conclusion
  • Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text
    Fact
    Inference
    Main Points
    Opinion
  • The series of related events that build toward the climax of a story 
    Resolution
    Introduction
    Plot
    Rising Action
  • The central message of a text
    Main Idea
    Theme
    Lesson
    Central Idea
  • Something that brings about an effect or a result
    Effect
    Contrast
    Cause
    Compare
  • Point of View when you know the thoughts and feelings of more than one character 
    2nd Person
    1st Person
    3rd Person Omniscient
    3rd Person Limited
  • The person who tells a story
    Character
    Protagonist
    Narrator
    Antagonist
  • The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve
    Resolution
    Problem
    Plot
    Climax
  • A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
    Hyperbole
    Personification
    Simile
    Metaphor
  • A view that someone takes on a certain issue based on a personal judgement
    Fact
    Evidence
    Opinion
    Inference
  • The result of a cause
    Cause
    Contrast 
    Effect
    Compare
  • A type of figurative language that makes a comparison without using like or as
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Personification
    Hyperbole
  • How a text is organized, such as sequence, cause and effect, or compare and contrast 
    Author's Purpose
    Text Set Up
    Text Structure
    Text Type
  • A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as
    Simile
    Metaphor
    Personification
    Hyperbole
  • The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved
    Exposition
    Conclusion
    Introduction
    Beginning
  • The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)
    Text Structure
    Claim
    Author's Purpose
    Point of View
  • To look for similarities 
    Compare
    Effect
    Contrast
    Cause
  • Point of View that is told from the "you" perspective
    3rd Person Omniscient
    2nd Person
    3rd Person Limited
    1st Person
  • The dictionary definition of a word 
    Antonym 
    Connotation
    Synonym 
    Denotation
  • Name that tune!
    Firework
    Roar
    Last Friday Night
    Dark Horse
  • To look for differences
    Effect
    Cause
    Contrast
    Compare
  • The solution to the problem or the part of the plot that takes place after the climax
    Resolution
    Climax
    Exposition
    Introduction
  • A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem
    Resolution
    Plot
    Character
    Protagonist
  • The emotion or judgement that a word expresses
    Definition
    Reference
    Connotation
    Denotation
  • Where and when a story takes place
    Theme
    Setting
    Resolution
    Plot
  • A word that is used in place of a noun
    Noun
    Verb
    Pronoun
    Adjective
  • An educated guess based on evidence in a text and what you already know
    Inference
    Fact
    Opinion
    Evidence
  • Point of View told by a narrator and you only know the thoughts and feelings of one character
    3rd Person Limited
    2nd Person
    3rd Person Omniscient
    1st Person
  • The main part of a word
    Ending
    Prefix
    Root 
    Suffix
  • Point of View that uses the pronouns I, me, my
    2nd Person
    1st Person
    3rd Person Omniscient
    3rd Person Limited
  • To restate the main points of a text
    Main Points
    Summarize
    Evidence 
    Main Idea
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