Reading Vocabulary - 4th grade

Theme

• time and place of events in the story

• made up characters or events

• the central of universal idea of a piece of fiction

• the basic sequence of events in a story

point of view

• made up characters or events

• person, animal, or creature in a story

• the central or universal idea of a piece of fiction

• the narrator's position in relation to the story being told

summarize

• person, animal, or creature in a story

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main ideas (BME)

• the central or universal idea of a piece of fiction

• a style or type of literature

inference

• a logical guess made by connecting bits of information

• the basic sequence of events in a story

• guess about what will happen in the future

• nearby words or sentences that give hints about a word's meaning

prediction

• nearby words or sentences that give hints about a word's meaning

• the time or place of events in the story

• a logical guess made by connecting bits of information

• guess about what will happen next or in the future

context clues

• the division of words into syllables

• a logical guess about what will happen in the future

• nearby words or sentences that give hints about a word's meaning

• words printed at the top of the dictionary page indicating the first and last words on the page

guide words

• words printed at the top of the dictionary page, indicating the first and last words on the page

• nearby words or sentences that give hints about an unfamiliar word's meaning

• the division of words into syllables

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main ideas (BME)

syllabication

• a style or type of literature

• the division of words into syllables

• the time and place of events in a story

• words printed at the top of the dictionary page, indicating the first and last words on the page

setting

• the time and place of events in the story

• the basic sequence of events in a story

• made up characters or events

• the division of words into syllables

character

• the narrator's position in relation to the story being told

• a logical guess made by connecting bits of information

• person, animal, or creature in a story

• the basic sequence of events in a story