3rd OSDE ELA Academic Vocabulary

biography

• A shortened form of a word or phrase

• A written account of another person's life

• Tells you what is in each chapter

• Describes a verb

context clues

• Set in modern times with events that could occur in the real world.

• Hints that an author gives to help define difficult or unusual word

• A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject

• expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point

exclamatory

• expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point

• expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point

• An alphabetical list of important words and their definitions at the end of a book

• A novel, story, or play set during a real historical era

declarative

• A word that joins two phrases or sentences

• Tells you what is in each chapter

• A statement that can be proved

• Makes a statement and ends with a period

adverb

• Describes a verb

• A shortened form of a word or phrase

• Tells you what is in each chapter

• In the time order in which events happened

conjunction

• Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word

• A novel, story, or play set during a real historical era

• A word that joins two phrases or sentences

• A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject

abbreviation

• Describes a verb

• A shortened form of a word or phrase

• A written account of another person's life

• Find out what students know and don't know

fact

• An alphabetical list of important words and their definitions at the end of a book

• expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point

• Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word

• A statement that can be proved

glossary

• An alphabetical list of important words and their definitions at the end of a book

• A statement that can be proved

• expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point

• A novel, story, or play set during a real historical era

chapter headings

• Tells you what is in each chapter

• A written account of another person's life

• Find out what students know and don't know

• Set in modern times with events that could occur in the real world