4th Grade Academic Vocabulary

__________ is to say something is true or fact, although you cannot prove it and other people might not believe it.

• Explicit

• Clarify

• Illustration

• Claim

Tags

CCSS.W.4.1A

CCSS.W.4.1B

Match the following story elements

• The struggle between opposing forces in a story

• Conflict

• The underlying message or main idea of a story

• Plot

• The sequence of events that make up a story

• Setting

• One of the individuals in a story

• Theme

• The time and place in which a story occurs

• Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What are the components of a story or article that are not in the main body of text?

• Text structures

• Primary sources

• Text features

• Figurative language

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is the meaning of the word: explain?

• To provide evidence

• To make clear

• To judge or calculate

• To show

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Match the following prefixes to their meaning

• not, opposite of

• dis-

• middle

• micro-

• small

• anti-

• before

• mid-

• against

• pre-

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

_________ is a person, text, document, or primary reference work that provides information

• Source

• Evaluate

• Plot

• Illustration

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which means to note what is similar and different about two or more things?

• Problem and solution

• Description

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Match the root words to their meaning.

• Against or opposed

• Form

• Self

• Photo

• Life

• Auto

• Shape

• Bio

• Light

• Anti

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

__________ is source-based information including facts, figures, and details used to support the writer's or speaker' central idea or claim.

• Evidence

• Claim

• Illustration

• Relevant

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

Match the following suffixes to their meanings

• more than one

• -est

• is; can be

• -ful

• the most

• -s; -es

• full of

• -logy, -ology

• the study of

• -able, -ible

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A