ELA 3 Academic Vocabulary Quiz 1

to tell a short version including the most important details

• character

• trait

• summary

• sequence

quotation

• a sentence directly from a text

• fiction, short story that has characters, setting, problem, solution...

• events that take place

• what goes wrong in a story

evidence

• find out

• tell about

• support or prove

• how characters feel

What goes wrong in a story

• solution

• details

• problem

• evidence

Traits

• to tell about

• words that describe a character

• dialogue

• what a character says

Motivations

• words used to describe a character

• thoughts, actions, words

• reasons why someone does something

• events that happen in a story

What the author is trying to teach the reader

• retell, inference, theme

• moral, lesson, theme

• theme, myth, describe

• lesson, motivation, point of view

Dialogue

• What characters say (in quotation marks)

• how characters feels

• description

• contribute

A short, fiction story, that often has animals (that can talk) as characters. Includes a lesson or moral.

• myth

• folktale

• fable

• non-fiction

distinguish

• difficult

• difference

• connection

• point of view