ELA Vocabulary Flashcards
noun
person, place, animal, thing
verb
en action
adjective
tells the size, shape, color, taste, or feel of a noun
compond
words that mean the same things
antonyms
words that mean opposite things
singular
one (cat, puppy)
plural
more than one (cats, puppies)
common noun
just general nouns (store, book, courage)
proper noun
a specific noun; a NAME (Walmart, Holes, Mrs. Gardner)
long vowel
when a vowel says it’s name
short vowel
when a vowel makes it’s short sound
consonant cluster
two or three consonants grouped together to make a quick sound
contraction
two words put together to make one WITH an apostrophe) (didn’t, can’t don’t)
compound word’s
two words put together to make one with NO spaces or apostrophes (baseball, firefighter, nside, butterfly)
genre
a type of book
Fiction
“Fake”. Are often stories that include plot and beginnings, middle, and endings.
Nonfiction
Books that contain facts. Usually have multiple text features.
Realistic Fiction
A type of genre with made up characters set in our world.
Fantasy
A type of genre that includes some sort of magic or things that can’t happen in real life, like talking animals.
Traditional Literature
A type of genre with books that have been passed down and often have a lesson (fairy tales, folk tales, tall tales, myths, legends)
Historical Fiction
A genre set in a real time in the past, but with fictional characters.
Science Fiction
A genre of fiction that involves space or technology.
Mystery
A type of genre in which there is a case or mystery that needs to be solved.
Biography
A type of genre that is Nonfiction because it is a books with facts about a person.
Autobiography
A type of genre that is Nonfiction because it is a books with facts about a person that they wrote themselves.
Author’s Purpose
The reason why an author writes a text
context
The words or sentences surrounding a part of text.
multiple-meaning word
A word that can have more than one meaning
text feature
An organized component that is not text (heading, captions, bold words, etc.)
graphic feature
A picture or image in a text (photo, table, map, graph, chart, etc.)
text structure
The way an author organizes their text to help the reader understand (cause and effect, sequence, compare and contrast, description, problem and solution)
