6th Grade Academic Vocabulary

to explain the most important part of the text or story

• contradict

• differentiate

• summarize

• evaluate

to examine carefully; separate into parts

• contradict

• infer

• paraphrase

• analyze

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

occurring BEFORE something else

• conclude

• previous

• narrate

• passage

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

another way of saying “text” or “piece of writing”

• passage

• text

• essay

• all of the above

to describe something

• characterize

• imply

• paraphrase

• summarize

to use YOUR OWN words but keep the same meaning as the original text or speaker

• differentiate

• summarize

• paraphrase

• contradict

arranged in time order

• chronological

• narrator

• previous

• passage

a person who tells a story

• character

• evaluator

• passage

• narrator

to bring to an end or decide

• differentiate

• infer

• conclude

• elaborate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

to stand against or take the opposite opinion

• imply

• contradict

• analyze

• characterize