3rd Grade Academic Vocabulary Quiz

clues that help the reader understand unknown words, character feelings, or events in the text

• context clues

• synonym

• antonym

• infer

Figuring out something about a text using clues the

author gives?

• context clues

• literal

• infer/inference

• details

Words and phrases that use their dictionary definition. For Real

• Nonliteral

• character

• setting

• Literal

Words that have the same, or similar, meanings?

• Antonym

• Plot

• character

• Synonym

Words that have different, or opposite meanings?

• Antonym

• Myth

• Key details

• setting

Important events in a story?

• character

• plot

• details

• main idea

Who the story is about. Who all is in the story?

• main idea

• details

• character(s)

• plot

Where and when a story takes place- seasons, times, places, dates,

weather, location?

• paragraph

• key details

• central message

• setting

Stories with animal characters that may have human like

characteristics that teach lessons?

• Fable

• Myth

• Folkktale

• nonfiction

Made up stories from long ago, all over the world, that are passed

down. They teach lessons- may have people and/or other talking things as

characters such as clouds or the sun?

• Fable

• Folktale

• Myth

• Fairytale