3rd GRADE VOCABULARY AFTER SCHOOL

This is writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

• Realistic Fiction
• Biography
• Imagery
• Fiction

This word means anything that happens to or is done by a character in a story.

• Event
• Cause
• Dialogue
• Cause and Effect

This is a subgenre of folklore or folktales.  It usually has an unknown and has magic or talking animals. /'Once upon a time'/ is a familiar way to start these.

• Realistic Fiction
• Folk Tale
• Fable
• Myth

This is information that supports a thought or belief. 

• Evidence
• Conclusion
• Thoughts
• Cause

This is a mode of writing whose purpose is to convey information or to explain and establish the validity of an idea in a logical, clear, and concrete manner

• Narrative Text
• Compare and Contrast
• Expository Text
• Cause and Effect

This is a type of real-world writing that presents material that is necessary or valuable to the reader.

• Fiction
• Expository Text
• Narrative Text
• Informational Text

This is an anonymous story handed down by word of mouth with in a certain culture or group of people.

• Fairy Tale
• Folk Tale
• Genre
• Fable

This is reading between the lines.  It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read.  What do you make?

• Inference
• Generalization
• Compare
• Entertain

This is to give facts, background, and other kinds of knowledge of a subject.

• Persuade
• Infer
• Inform
• Evidence

This is forming a broad idea based on specific instances.  Inductive reasoning.

• Context
• Generalization
• Metaphor
• Fiction