Literacy Terms

Definition: the people or animals in a story

• Character

• Diagram

• Conflict

• Context clues

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Definition: the problem in the story: part of the plot

• Compare and contrast

• Drama

• Conflict

• Curtain

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Definition: clues and surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word.

• Diary/journal

• Context clues

• Compare and contrast

• Detail

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Definition: A day to day account of a person's life

• Dictionary

• Compare and contrast

• Context clues

• Diary/journal

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Definition: a story written to be performed by actors a play

• Curtain

• Character

• Drama

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

finding similarities and differences between two things

• Character

• Dictionary

• Diary/journal

• Compare and contrast

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Definition: A larger division of the play (Like a chapter)

• act

• alliteration

• antonym

• atlas

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Definition: Repeating the same letter sound at the beginning of closely connected words. (A tongue twister)

• alliteration

• autobiography

• bold print

• cause

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition: A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word.

• act

• antonym

• characteristics

• cast of characters

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Definition: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• A) Metaphor

• B) Oxymoron

• C) Simile

• D) Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A