6th Grade English Vocabulary S1

30 Academic Vocab Words every 6th grader should know

Claim

A sentence that gives the main idea of what you are writing.

Explain

To make something clear to someone by describing it in more detail.

Quote

n. Repeated words of someone exactly as they said it.

Summarize

A brief retelling of the main points of something.

Characteristic

A feature or quality belonging to a person, place, or thing that helps identify it.

Identify

To find out and then show or explain what something is.

Cite

To quote an example or proof of something.

Elaborate

v. To develop an ideas in more detail.

Infer

To figure something out from clues and evidence instead of the text telling you directly.

Narrative

A spoken or written story (it can be fictional or non-fictional).

Plot

n. The main events of a story.

Exposition

The background information on the characters, setting, and conflict explained at the beginning of a story.

Climax

The most intense point in the development of a story.

Dialogue

Any time characters of a story are talking, and has quotation marks around the words.

Theme

A basic message or lesson of a story or poem.

Edit

To make changes to a piece of writing by fixing spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors to help make the writing more clear & correct.

Feedback

Information or criticism that is used to make something better.

Draft

A starting piece of writing that may need revisions and editing.

Revise

To make changes to a piece of writing by adding, removing, or rearranging sentences or paragraphs to help make the writing more clear.

Evaluate

To determine the value or condition of something.

Analyze

To examine carefully and in detail to identify causes, key factors, possible results.

Context

Information before or after a word or sentence that helps give clues to its meaning.

Clarify

To make something clearer to understand by explaining it in more detail.

Objective

A thing that is aimed for or worked towards, like a goal.

Evidence

Details and information that support an idea.

Paraphrase

To briefly restate a text in your own words.

Thesis (statement)

The sentence that introduces the writer’s claim and their reasons or examples.

Transition (transitional phrase)

In writing, it’s the words and phrases that connect ideas in a written text and help the writing to flow.

Figurative

Words and phrases that don’t literally mean what they’re saying.

Interpret

To explain or tell the meaning of something in an understandable way.