This week in 6th grade Language Arts...

Students will be bringing home last week's Practice EOG and score sheet.  It would be a great idea for parents to go over this packet with their student.  All packets and score sheets need to be signed and returned to me ASAP.

Progress Reports come home on Thursday.  The practice EOG score will be listed on the Progress Report but will be removed before actual Report Cards.

We will have more EOG style passages throughout the next few weeks and those scores will count as regular grades and will be recorded.

Here is this week's VOCABULARY.  Test will be on Thursday.

Bold Print: Words that are usually written darker than others

Subheading: Introduces the main idea of the section that follows.

Subtitles: Usually the second title of an article.

Italics: Words that are written with slanting letters

Parenthesis: one or both of the curved marks ( ) used in writing

Map: Help illustrate where the story takes place

Graph: Helps give the reader information about a topic dealing with numbers

Graphic Organizer: A diagram used to help organize information from a selection

Illustration: A picture or drawing to add to the selection

Heading: Tells what the article is about

Foot Notes: Information given at the bottom of a selection to help the reader understand words or terms

Timeline: A sequence of events of a person or place in time

Diagram: A picture to help with the understanding of information

Table: The arrangement of data

Index: Located at the back of a textbook and lists each section or topic found in the book with its page number

Table of Contents: Located in the front of a book that lists units, chapters, stories or section in the order that they appear in the book

Glossary: A small dictionary in the back of a book