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EOG VOCABULARY WORDS FOR grades 3 & 4

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FICTION   A story that is made up or not true  
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Non-Fiction   A selection that is true or factual  
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Narrative   Another name for a story  
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Memoirs   A kind of writing that tells someone’s memories  
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Menu   A list of choices you can get at a restaurant.  
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Schedule   A list of times and activities  
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Biography   A story about someone’s life  
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Article   A non-fiction selection usually found in a newspaper or magazine.  
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Fantasy   Stories that have elements in them that could not really happen  
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Folk Tales   Fiction stories that are based on legends.  
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Fairy Tales   Stories that involve unrealistic characters like fairies, and usually have a happy ending  
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Myths/Legend   A story passed down from generations that explain historical events  
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Cause   What makes something happen  
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Effect   What happens because of something.  
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Main Idea   What the story is mainly about.  
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Purpose   why the author wrote the passage  
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Opinion   How a person feels about something  
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Mood/Tone   The way a story makes you feel  
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Characteristics   Traits a character has  
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Fact   A statement that is true  
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Details   sentences that support the main idea that tells who, what, when, where and why  
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Influence   The effect a situation or character has on each other.  
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Information   communication of knowledge  
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To Entertain   Humor the reader (funny)  
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To Inform   To give information or facts to the reader  
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To Persuade   To get the reader to buy or do something  
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Prediction   Something you think will happen  
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Compare and Contrast   How are things alike and different  
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Sequence   The order of events  
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Inference   A special kind of guess or opinion based on facts.  
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Characters   The people or animals in the story  
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Plot   Part of the story that tells what happens  
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Problem   Part of the Plot. Also known as the conflict  
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Resolution   When the problem in the story is fixed  
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Setting   Where and when the story takes place  
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Synonym   Words that have the same meaning  
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Antonym   Words that have the opposite meaning  
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Point of View   Some stories are written in the 1st person and use the word I. Others are written in the 3rd person and use the words: he, she….  
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Theme   The message the author wants to deliver  
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Bold Print   Words that are usually written darker than others  
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Subheading   Introduces the main idea of the section that follows  
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Subtitles   Usually the second title of an article  
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Italics   Words that are written with slanting letters  
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Parenthesis   one or both of the curved marks ( ) used in writing  
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Graph   Helps give the reader information about a topic dealing with numbers  
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Graphic Organizer   A diagram used to help organize information from a selection  
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Illustration   A picture or drawing to add to the selection  
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Heading   Tells what the article is about  
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Timeline:   A sequence of events of a person or place in time  
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Table   The arrangement of data  
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Flow Chart   A step-by-step change of data over time.  
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Index   Located at the back of a textbook and lists each section or topic found in the book with its page number  
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Table of Contents   Located in the front of a book that lists units, chapters, stories or section in the order that they appear in the book  
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Glossary   A small dictionary in the back of a book  
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Poet   author or writer of a poem  
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Stanza   A group of lines that make up a paragraph in a poem  
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Ingredients   he edible materials used in cooking  
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Utensils   tools used in cooking (EX: spoon)  
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Equipment   The machines used in cooking  
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Bake   To cook  
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Oven   A chamber used for cooking  
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Hyperbole   to exaggerate  
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Onomatopoeia   writing words that sound like sound  
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