Vocabulary Review

the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium

• author's craft

• audience

• theme

• author's purpose

intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, syntax, devices, and diction to create an effective written work; author’s craft may vary by genre

• author's craft

• audience

• theme

• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2A

CCSS.W.6.4

the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g.,  to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze,  etc.)

• author's craft

• audience

• theme

• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

picture or other image within a text

• theme

• audience

• graphic

• context

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.7

a text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate

• informational text

• fictional text

• poem

• short story

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

• theme

• key ideas

• supporting details

• summary

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

restate the meaning of something in different words.

• paraphrase

• summarize

Tags

CCSS.SL.6.1D

a source that is a step removed from the original accounts of an event or experience

• primary source

• secondary source

to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea.

• summarize

• paraphrase

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

the way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text 

• text features

• text structures

• informational text

• organization

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.W.6.2A