ELAR Academic Vocabulary Flashcards
Using clues from the story, plus what you already know, to figure out what is not being said
Inference
A decision or opinion you reach based on the information from the story (figuring out what characters will do or say next)
Draw Conclusions
Proving a point or an answer by finding evidence from the story to support it
Text Evidence
A story made up by an author and it is not true
Fiction
A story that is real and based on true facts
Nonfiction
A type of writing that appeals to the senses and feelings, has lines and stanzas, it may rhyme or tell a story
Poetry
A story about someone’s life written by someone else
Biography
A story about someone’s life written by that person
Autobiography
Is made up of the problem, important events, and the resolution
Plot
The problem that a character in a story wants to change, fix, or figure out
Conflict
The way a problem is solved or fixed
Solution
The people, animals, or creatures in a story
Characters
The message or lesson that the author wants you to take away from the story
Theme
The time, place, and environment where a story occurs
Setting
Added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning
Prefix
Added to the end of a root word to change its meaning
Suffix
A word that carries meaning and can stand on its own without any added word parts
Root Word
Clues that readers use to find the meaning of unknown words
Context Clue
A word with several different meanings
Multiple Meaning Word
Putting events of a story in order in which they happened
Sequence
To retell the main events of a story in order from beginning, middle, to end
Summary
To retell the main events of a story in a shorter way using your own words
Paraphrase
Information that helps the reader understand what they are reading and gives the reader extra information
Text Feature
Specific information that supports and relates to the main idea
Supporting Detail
What the text is mostly about
Central Idea
The reason why something happened
Cause
What happened; the result
Effect
A statement you can prove to be either true or false
Fact
Using the author’s clues to determine what will happen next in the story
Prediction
A statement that cannot be proven true or false
Opinion
A short explanation or description of a picture located near the picture
Caption
Slanting words so that they stand out in the text
Italics
A picture taken with a camera
Photograph
Print that is darker or brighter than the rest of the sentence
Bold Print
The name of the text
Title
Illustrations and photographs with labels naming its parts
Diagram
Pictures that are drawn
Illustration
The person or character telling the story
Narrator
Details within a story that describe what is seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted
Sensory Detail
The reason the author wrote the text
Author’s Purpose
Words that sound the same, often the last word in each line
Rhyme
A poem that does not rhyme
Free Verse
A poem that tells a story
Narrative Poem
Words that mean the same thing
Synonym
Words that have opposite meanings
Antonym
The turning point in a story where the problem or conflict reaches its peak
Climax
How people, places, things, or ideas in a story are similar or alike
Compare
How people, places, things, or ideas in a story are different
Contrast
Sequencing the events of a story in the order that they occurred
Chronological Order
A resource used to find the meaning of
words
Dictionary
The main character is the narrator and is telling the story; pronouns: I, we, me, myself
1st Person Point of View
Someone who is not a character is
telling the story; pronouns: he, she, they, names
3rd Person Point of View
Words that paint a picture in the reader’s mind
Imagery
How the problem in the story is resolved
Resolution
A group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph
Stanza
An organized way to present mathematical pieces of information
Charts and Graphs
How the character looks, what they say, do, think, and feel
Character Trait
Two stories that are read together about a similar topic so that the reader can compare
and contrast the text
Paired Passage
Stories that can be acted out in front of people or an audience
Drama
The parts a play is divided into; When this changes the setting changes
Scenes
Tells the actors where to stand, where to go, how to move, and how to speak
Stage Directions
The lines a character speaks
Dialogue
The organizational structure of a text
Text Structure
The time order in which events happen
Chronological order
Giving human qualities to non human objects (The ocean wave swallowed the boat.)
Personification
repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (she sells seashells by the sea shore)
Alliteration
Using “like” or “as” to compare two things
Simile
The sequence of events that make up a story
Plot
an expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words (cool as a cucumber, break a leg, under the weather)
Idiom
an exaggeration (I ate a mountain of spaghetti)
Hyperbole
Comparing two thins by saying something is something else. (Life is a rollercoaster, the classroom is a zoo, he is a night owl)
Metaphor
Picking a side; Your Opinion
Claim
Your reason why that supports your claim
Argument
the type or style of text
Genre
