4th Grade Reading Academic Vocabulary

The message or moral of the story

• Effect
• Cause
• Main Idea
• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Background knowledge

• Theme
• Setting
• Schema
• Sequence

Where the story takes place

• Cause
• Sequence
• Setting
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Something someone thinks, feels, or believes

• Cause
• Effect
• Opinion
• Fact

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The order that events happened

• Sequence
• Main Idea
• Inferencing
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

The reason "why" something happened

• Inferencing
• Opinion
• Main Idea
• Cause

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

The problem in the story

• Conflict
• Cause
• Sequence
• Fact

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Something that can be proven

• Effect
• Inferencing
• Fact
• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Figuring out something that wasn't completely explained in the text or picture

• Inferencing
• Sequence
• Cause
• Main Idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

What happened because of the cause

• Cause
• Setting
• Effect
• Fact

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C