ELAR Academic Vocabulary

Question 1

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

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Inference

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Draw Conclusions

Question 3

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

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Text Evidence

Question 4

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

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Fiction

Question 5

A story that is real and based on true facts

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Nonfiction

Question 6

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

Question 7

A story about someone’s life written by someone else

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Biography

Question 8

A story about someone’s life written by that person

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Autobiography

Question 9

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

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Plot

Question 10

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

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Conflict

Question 11

The way a problem is solved or fixed

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Solution

Question 12

The people, animals, or creatures in a story

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Characters

Question 13

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

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Theme

Question 14

The time, place, and environment where a story occurs

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Setting

Question 15

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

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Prefix

Question 16

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

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Suffix

Question 17

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

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Root Word

Question 18

Clues that readers use to find the meaning of unknown words

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Context Clue

Question 19

A word with several different meanings

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Multiple Meaning Word

Question 20

Putting events of a story in order in which they happened

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Sequence

Question 21

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

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Summary

Question 22

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

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Paraphrase

Question 23

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

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Text Feature

Question 24

Specific information that supports and relates to the main idea

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Supporting Detail

Question 25

What the text is mostly about

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Central Idea

Question 26

The reason why something happened

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Cause

Question 27

What happened; the result

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Effect

Question 28

A statement you can prove to be either true or false

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Fact

Question 29

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

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Prediction

Question 30

A statement that cannot be proven true or false

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Opinion

Question 31

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

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Caption

Question 32

Slanting words so that they stand out in the text

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Italics

Question 33

A picture taken with a camera

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Photograph

Question 34

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

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Bold Print

Question 35

The name of the text

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Title

Question 36

Illustrations and photographs with labels naming its parts

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Diagram

Question 37

Pictures that are drawn

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Illustration

Question 38

The person or character telling the story

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Narrator

Question 39

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

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Sensory Detail

Question 40

The reason the author wrote the text

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Author’s Purpose

Question 41

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

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Rhyme

Question 42

A poem that does not rhyme

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Free Verse

Question 43

A poem that tells a story

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Narrative Poem

Question 44

Words that mean the same thing

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Synonym

Question 45

Words that have opposite meanings

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Antonym

Question 46

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

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Climax

Question 47

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

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Compare

Question 48

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

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Contrast

Question 49

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

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Chronological Order

Question 50

A resource used to find the meaning of words

Answer 50

Dictionary

Question 51

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

Question 52

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

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3rd Person Point of View

Question 53

Words that paint a picture in the reader’s mind

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Imagery

Question 54

How the problem in the story is resolved

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Resolution

Question 55

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

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Stanza

Question 56

An organized way to present mathematical pieces of information

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Charts and Graphs

Question 57

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

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Character Trait

Question 58

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

Question 59

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

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Drama

Question 60

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

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Scenes

Question 61

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

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Stage Directions

Question 62

The lines a character speaks

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Dialogue

Question 63

The organizational structure of a text

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Text Structure

Question 64

The time order in which events happen

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Chronological order

Question 65

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

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Personification

Question 66

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

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Alliteration

Question 67

Using "like" or "as" to compare two things

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Simile

Question 68

The sequence of events that make up a story

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Plot

Question 69

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

Question 70

an exaggeration (I ate a mountain of spaghetti)

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Hyperbole

Question 71

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

Question 72

Picking a side; Your Opinion

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Claim

Question 73

Your reason why that supports your claim

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Argument

Question 74

the type or style of text

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Genre