Academic vocab 8/19 - 8/23

What is the definition of chronology?

• The title of a comic book for 3rd-5th graders

• Facts, events, or details are presented in the order in which they occurred in time.

• A way to tell the time on a clock in the United States

• A way to number your sentences and make sure that you're using capital letters

What are Text Features?

• An app that allows you to text your friends and family members faster and easier

• Text Features are not a real thing

• The components of a story or article that are not the main body of text, including the table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, sidebars, pictures and captions, and labeled diagrams.

• Text features are ONLY captions for pictures in a story

What is the definition of comparison?

• An object that helps you to get the teacher's attention when you need help

• A technique that helps you to read faster and understand more of a story

• A way to find a partner during a group activity in class

• The similarities and/or differences of two or more people, things, concepts, or ideas are presented.

What is the definition of cause and effect?

• Information that reflects a causal relationship. The description of what happened is the effect and the detail(s) related to why it happened is the cause.

• Cause and effect means to take your responsibilities as a student seriously

• Information that helps you to learn vocabulary

• An app that reads you stories, plays movies, and has games

What is the definition for development?

• Development means to have immediate success

• To stop growing and show no progress

• To bring out the possibilities of; to begin to exist or be present gradually; to create over time; to grow or advance.

• The idea that everything on Earth stays the same forever

True or false: If you watch a video of a tree growing over 5 years, you are watching the development of the tree.

What is the definition of a compound word?

• A word made up of two smaller words joined together.

• A compound word is the fancy way of talking about a dog pound.

• A compound word is a word that helps you to write about pounds during math time.

• A compound word is a way to understand what every single word in the dictionary means

True or false: Fish tank is a compound word

Select all of the words that are compound words

• waterfall

• doghouse

• Yogurt

• bookshelf

• breadmaker

Select all of the options that are Text Features

• Glossaries

• The page numbers

• Captions

• Headings

• The actual story