STAAR ELAR Vocabulary 4th Grade

instructions in a play that tell actors

what to do or where to go

• stage directions

• dialogue

• character tags

• scenes

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.9C

a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or how it is used

• suffix

• affix

• prefix

• root word

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.3C

a problem or struggle between opposing forces

• character

• plot

• conflict

• theme

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.8C

the end of the story where the

problems get solved

• rising action

• falling action

• resolution

• climax

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.8C

the voice talking in a

poem or story

• speaker

• character

• dialogue

• narrator

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.10F

the central idea

or message of a text

• character

• plot

• conflict

• theme

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.10A

smaller parts inside an act

• scenes

• chapters
• paragraphs
• stanzas

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.9C

a statement someone believes

to be true

• fact
• opinion
• assumption
• claim

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

ways writers use sound, like

rhyme or repetition

• sound device

• rhyme scheme

• stanza

• line

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.10D

how information is put together in a text

• organizational pattern

• central idea

• evidence

• article

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.9D