SBAC 6th Vocabulary

Cause and Effect

• The event that happens first and the event that follows, or when one event brings about another

• Break something down into parts.

• Express a position on a problem and support it with reasons or evidence.

• The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. The author must decide whether his purpose for writing is to inform, persuade, or entertain.

Analyze

• The event that happens first and the event that follows, or when one event brings about another

• Break something down into parts.

• Express a position on a problem and support it with reasons or evidence.

  
  

• The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. The author must decide whether his purpose for writing is to inform, persuade, or entertain.

  
  

Argument

• A person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show.

• The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. The author must decide whether his purpose for writing is to inform, persuade, or entertain.

• The big idea or message that is shown in a text.

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  Express a position on a problem and support it with reasons or evidence.

Author’s Purpose

• Express a position on a problem and support it with reasons or evidence.

• The event that happens first and the event that follows, or when one event brings about another

• Break something down into parts.

• The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. The author must decide whether his purpose for writing is to inform, persuade, or entertain.

  
  

Central Idea

• A person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show.

• Express a position on a problem and support it with reasons or evidence.

• The big idea or message that is shown in a text.

• The sequence of events in a play, story, novel or text. Five basic elements: exposition, rising action,

  climax, falling action and resolution.

  
  

Character

• The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. The author must decide whether his purpose for writing is to inform, persuade, or entertain.

  
  

• A person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show.

• To make a logical guess based on knowledge and clues from the text. Prior Knowledge + Clues = Inference

• To make a logical guess based on knowledge and clues from the text. Prior Knowledge + Clues = Inference

Inference

• The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. The author must decide whether his purpose for writing is to inform, persuade, or entertain.

  
  

• A person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show.

• To make a logical guess based on knowledge and clues from the text. Prior Knowledge + Clues = Inference

• To make a logical guess based on knowledge and clues from the text. Prior Knowledge + Clues = Inference

Plot

• The sequence of events in a play, story, novel or text. Five basic elements: exposition, rising action,

  climax, falling action and resolution

  
  

  
  

• A person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show.

• To make a logical guess based on knowledge and clues from the text. Prior Knowledge + Clues = Inference

• To make a logical guess based on knowledge and clues from the text. Prior Knowledge + Clues = Inference

Simile

• Definition: Comparing two things that are not alike without using like or as. 

  Example: You’re a firework.

  
  

• To retell the main parts or ideas from a text in your own words.

  
  

• Compare two unlike things using like or as.

  Example: “Her hand is as cold as ice”

• (Central Idea)

  The message about life and human

  nature the author is sharing with the

  reader.

  
  

Metaphor

• Definition: Comparing two things that are not alike without using like or as. 

  Example: You’re a firework.

  
  

• To retell the main parts or ideas from a text in your own words.

  
  

• Compare two unlike things using like or as.

  Example: “Her hand is as cold as ice”

• (Central Idea)

  The message about life and human

  nature the author is sharing with the

  reader.