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ELAR Academic Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Using clues from the story, plus what you already know, to figure out what is not being said

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Inference

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A decision or opinion you reach based on the information from the story (figuring out what characters will do or say next)

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Draw Conclusions

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Proving a point or an answer by finding evidence from the story to support it

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Text Evidence

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4
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A story made up by an author and it is not true

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Fiction

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A story that is real and based on true facts

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Nonfiction

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A type of writing that appeals to the senses and feelings, has lines and stanzas, it may rhyme or tell a story

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Poetry

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A story about someone’s life written by someone else

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Biography

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A story about someone’s life written by that person

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Autobiography

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Is made up of the problem, important events, and the resolution

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Plot

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The problem that a character in a story wants to change, fix, or figure out

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Conflict

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The way a problem is solved or fixed

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Solution

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The people, animals, or creatures in a story

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Characters

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13
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The message or lesson that the author wants you to take away from the story

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Theme

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14
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The time, place, and environment where a story occurs

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Setting

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15
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Added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning

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Prefix

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16
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Added to the end of a root word to change its meaning

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Suffix

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17
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A word that carries meaning and can stand on its own without any added word parts

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Root Word

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18
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Clues that readers use to find the meaning of unknown words

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Context Clue

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19
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A word with several different meanings

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Multiple Meaning Word

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20
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Putting events of a story in order in which they happened

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Sequence

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21
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To retell the main events of a story in order from beginning, middle, to end

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Summary

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22
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To retell the main events of a story in a shorter way using your own words

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Paraphrase

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23
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Information that helps the reader understand what they are reading and gives the reader extra information

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Text Feature

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24
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Specific information that supports and relates to the main idea

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Supporting Detail

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25
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What the text is mostly about

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Central Idea

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26
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The reason why something happened

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Cause

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27
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What happened; the result

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Effect

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28
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A statement you can prove to be either true or false

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Fact

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29
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Using the author’s clues to determine what will happen next in the story

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Prediction

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30
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A statement that cannot be proven true or false

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Opinion

31
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A short explanation or description of a picture located near the picture

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Caption

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Slanting words so that they stand out in the text

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Italics

33
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A picture taken with a camera

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Photograph

34
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Print that is darker or brighter than the rest of the sentence

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Bold Print

35
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The name of the text

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Title

36
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Illustrations and photographs with labels naming its parts

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Diagram

37
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Pictures that are drawn

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Illustration

38
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The person or character telling the story

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Narrator

39
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Details within a story that describe what is seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted

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Sensory Detail

40
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The reason the author wrote the text

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Author’s Purpose

41
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Words that sound the same, often the last word in each line

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Rhyme

42
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A poem that does not rhyme

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Free Verse

43
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A poem that tells a story

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Narrative Poem

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Words that mean the same thing

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Synonym

45
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Words that have opposite meanings

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Antonym

46
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The turning point in a story where the problem or conflict reaches its peak

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Climax

47
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How people, places, things, or ideas in a story are similar or alike

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Compare

48
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How people, places, things, or ideas in a story are different

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Contrast

49
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Sequencing the events of a story in the order that they occurred

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Chronological Order

50
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A resource used to find the meaning of
words

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Dictionary

51
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The main character is the narrator and is telling the story; pronouns: I, we, me, myself

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1st Person Point of View

52
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Someone who is not a character is
telling the story; pronouns: he, she, they, names

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3rd Person Point of View

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Words that paint a picture in the reader’s mind

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Imagery

54
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How the problem in the story is resolved

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Resolution

55
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A group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph

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Stanza

56
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An organized way to present mathematical pieces of information

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Charts and Graphs

57
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How the character looks, what they say, do, think, and feel

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Character Trait

58
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Two stories that are read together about a similar topic so that the reader can compare
and contrast the text

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Paired Passage

59
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Stories that can be acted out in front of people or an audience

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Drama

60
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The parts a play is divided into; When this changes the setting changes

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Scenes

61
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Tells the actors where to stand, where to go, how to move, and how to speak

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Stage Directions

62
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The lines a character speaks

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Dialogue

63
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The organizational structure of a text

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Text Structure

64
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The time order in which events happen

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Chronological order

65
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Giving human qualities to non human objects (The ocean wave swallowed the boat.)

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Personification

66
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repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (she sells seashells by the sea shore)

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Alliteration

67
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Using “like” or “as” to compare two things

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Simile

68
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The sequence of events that make up a story

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Plot

69
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an expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words (cool as a cucumber, break a leg, under the weather)

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Idiom

70
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an exaggeration (I ate a mountain of spaghetti)

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Hyperbole

71
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Comparing two thins by saying something is something else. (Life is a rollercoaster, the classroom is a zoo, he is a night owl)

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Metaphor

72
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Picking a side; Your Opinion

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Claim

73
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Your reason why that supports your claim

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Argument

74
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the type or style of text

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Genre

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