Vocabulary Practice 8/16

Vocabulary Practice 8/16

ELA Week 1

​EXPLICIT

Something stated clearly, ​directly, and in detail.

​CHARACTER

​A person or animal in a story

​SETTING

​When and where a story takes place

​EVENT

Something that happens in a story​

​FABLE

​a very short story, usually with animal characters, that points clearly to a moral or a lesson

​EVIDENCE

​a sign (word/phrase/visual) that shows that something exists or is true

​COMPASS

​an instrument for determining direction, esp. one with a horizontal magnetic needle that rotates freely until it points to the magnetic north

​Tadpole

​the larva of a frog or toad at the stage when it lives in water and has gills and a tail

​OBJECT

​anything that can be seen or touched

​PROBLEM

​a question or circumstance that causes difficulty or uncertainty

Multiple Choice

A person or animal in a story

• my teacher

• solution

• event

• character

Multiple Choice

When and where a story takes place

• character

• setting

• problem

• solution

Multiple Choice

stated clearly and in detail

• compass

• character

• explicit

• tadpole

Multiple Choice

​a very short story, usually with animal characters, that points clearly to a moral or a lesson

• problem

• poetry

• poem

• fable

Multiple Choice

​a question or circumstance that causes difficulty or uncertainty

• problem

• answer

• setting

• compass

Multiple Choice

the larva of a frog or toad at the stage when it lives in water and has gills and a tail

• egg

• seagrass

• tadpole

• alligator

Multiple Choice

​a sign (word/phrase/visual) that shows that something exists or is true

• word

• stop sign

• paper

• evidence

Multiple Choice

anything that can be seen or touched

• character

• tadpole

• object

• setting

Multiple Choice

​an instrument for determining direction, esp. one with a horizontal magnetic needle that rotates freely until it points to the magnetic north

• computer

• clock

• companion

• compass

Multiple Choice

Something that happens in a story

• exit

• event

• elevator

• elastic