ELA Yearlong Vocabulary

Develop means to...

• grow or cause to grow; start to exist, experience, or possess

• make into a picture, drawing, or painting

• destroy or crumble

• break into sound units

Phonics are ...

• a basketball team in Seattle

• musical notes and tones

• describing words used in writing

• A connection between letter symbols and sounds

If you are fluent or have fluency, you have...

• the ability to speak and write more than one language

• able to speak and write a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.

• a high vocabulary and reading level

• able to teach anyone the language you speak

Word analysis/study/parts means you are...

• breaking words into their smallest unit(s) of meaning

• breaking words into their smallest unit(s) of sound

• breaking words into their smallest unit(s) of origin

• breaking words into their smallest unit(s) of graphemes

If I am checking your level of comprehension, what am I looking for?

• ability to explain using RACE

• ability to read quickly

• ability to summarize out loud

• ability to understand

If you are practicing your annotation skills, what will you most likely be doing?

• highlighting only bold print words

• taking notes and making comments in the margins as you read

• looking up words you do not understand

• reading the summary of an article or story

Examples of literary devices include...

• nouns, verbs, adjectives

• subordinating and conjunctive clauses

• similes, metaphors, flashback, foreshadowing

• infinitive and gerund verb forms