4th Grade Academic Vocabulary W1/W3

Author

• person who tells the story

• person who wrote the story

• the readers of the writing

• the people or animals in a story or poem

​ (a)   is the time and place that a story happens while ​ (b)   is the series of events that happen in a story.

• Setting
• plot
• Character
• Resolution
• conflict

Match the word to its definition.

• the trouble that the character has

• Trait

• qualities of a character's personality

• Resolution

• how the problem is solved

• Conflict

• the turning point in a story

• Climax

​ (a)   is how the author sees something. When someone NOT in the story tells the story it's called​ (b)   .​ (c)   is when a character IN the story tells the story.

• Point of View
• Third-person POV
• First person POV
• Second person POV

Match the POV to the type of perspective.

Groups:

(a) First Person POV

,

(b) Third Person POV

• She

• He

• I

• They

• We

• Me

Narrator

• Person who wrote the story

• Person who tells the story

• Readers of the Writing

• Readers of the Details

​ (a)   are words that have opposite meanings.

​ (b)   are words that mean the same or almost the same thing.​

• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homonyms

Match the word to its definition.

• clues from the text

• Details

• examples that support the MI

• Summary

• help give meaning to unknown words

• Context Clues

• what the writing is about

• Evidence

• restating the main idea in fewer words

• Main Idea (MI)

The readers of the writing are called...

The events of a story are called the ​ (a)   while the turning point of the story is called​ (b)   . ​

• plot
• climax
• setting
• point of view