Academic Vocabulary 1st 6 Weeks - 4th Grade

The people or animals in a story are called __________________.

• context clues

• plot

• characters

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What the text is mostly about is called the __________________________________________.

• author's purpose

• central idea

• prefix

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

___________________________ uses poetic structure to tell a story.

• narrative poetry

• realistic fiction

• fantasy

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

_____________________________ are the words or phrases around an unknown word that can be clues to its meaning.

• theme

• context clues

• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

__________________________ is the style, type, or category of writing.

• realistic fiction

• narrative poetry

• genre

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

This describes how readers experience a story, either through a character in the story (first person) or an outside narrator (third person).

• author's purpose

• point of view

• characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A word part that is added to the beginning of a base word that changes the meaning of the word.

• prefix

• context clues

• information

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

This tells a story about characters and events that are like those in real life.

• narrative poetry

• fantasy

• realistic fiction

The ___________________________ is the message, lesson, or moral of the text.

• theme

• central idea

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

A _________________________ is an imaginative story with characters and events that are not real.

• biography

• fantasy

• narrative poetry

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D