ELA Vocabulary Flashcards

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noun

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person, place, animal, thing

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verb

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en action

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3
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adjective

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tells the size, shape, color, taste, or feel of a noun

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4
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compond

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words that mean the same things

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5
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antonyms

A

words that mean opposite things

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6
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singular

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one (cat, puppy)

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7
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plural

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more than one (cats, puppies)

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8
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common noun

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just general nouns (store, book, courage)

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proper noun

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a specific noun; a NAME (Walmart, Holes, Mrs. Gardner)

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10
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long vowel

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when a vowel says it’s name

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short vowel

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when a vowel makes it’s short sound

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12
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consonant cluster

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two or three consonants grouped together to make a quick sound

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13
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contraction

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two words put together to make one WITH an apostrophe) (didn’t, can’t don’t)

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14
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compound word’s

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two words put together to make one with NO spaces or apostrophes (baseball, firefighter, nside, butterfly)

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15
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genre

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a type of book

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16
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Fiction

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“Fake”. Are often stories that include plot and beginnings, middle, and endings.

17
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Nonfiction

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Books that contain facts. Usually have multiple text features.

18
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Realistic Fiction

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A type of genre with made up characters set in our world.

19
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Fantasy

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A type of genre that includes some sort of magic or things that can’t happen in real life, like talking animals.

20
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Traditional Literature

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A type of genre with books that have been passed down and often have a lesson (fairy tales, folk tales, tall tales, myths, legends)

21
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Historical Fiction

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A genre set in a real time in the past, but with fictional characters.

22
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Science Fiction

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A genre of fiction that involves space or technology.

23
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Mystery

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A type of genre in which there is a case or mystery that needs to be solved.

24
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Biography

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A type of genre that is Nonfiction because it is a books with facts about a person.

25
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Autobiography

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A type of genre that is Nonfiction because it is a books with facts about a person that they wrote themselves.

26
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Author’s Purpose

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The reason why an author writes a text

27
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context

A

The words or sentences surrounding a part of text.

28
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multiple-meaning word

A

A word that can have more than one meaning

29
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text feature

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An organized component that is not text (heading, captions, bold words, etc.)

30
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graphic feature

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A picture or image in a text (photo, table, map, graph, chart, etc.)

31
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text structure

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The way an author organizes their text to help the reader understand (cause and effect, sequence, compare and contrast, description, problem and solution)