4th grade Academic Vocabulary II

Climax

• convince

• show importance of something

• funny

• the most exciting part of the story

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Approaches

• to look up to someone

• a way of doing something

• what the character does

• annoying

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Persuade

• to look up to someone

• a way of doing something

• convince

• annoying

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.6

Conflict

• the events in the story

• the problem, something that is causing trouble

• what the character does

• when and where the story takes place

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Action

• a way of doing something

• how the problem is solved

• the events in the story

• what the character does

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Similar

• a problem

• sad

• the same

• how something ends

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

Purpose

• little bits of information

• a problem

• the reason

• how something ends

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Gloomy

• to put in order

• sad

• make something more likely to happen

• same

Details

• how something ends

• the events in the story

• little bits of information

• what the character does

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Idiom

• comparing two things without using "like" and "as"

• a word or phrase that says one thing, but means another

• an exaggeration

• match

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D