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EOG Vocab Words
EOG VOCABULARY WORDS FOR grades 3 & 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| FICTION | A story that is made up or not true |
| Non-Fiction | A selection that is true or factual |
| Narrative | Another name for a story |
| Memoirs | A kind of writing that tells someone’s memories |
| Menu | A list of choices you can get at a restaurant. |
| Schedule | A list of times and activities |
| Biography | A story about someone’s life |
| Article | A non-fiction selection usually found in a newspaper or magazine. |
| Fantasy | Stories that have elements in them that could not really happen |
| Folk Tales | Fiction stories that are based on legends. |
| Fairy Tales | Stories that involve unrealistic characters like fairies, and usually have a happy ending |
| Myths/Legend | A story passed down from generations that explain historical events |
| Cause | What makes something happen |
| Effect | What happens because of something. |
| Main Idea | What the story is mainly about. |
| Purpose | why the author wrote the passage |
| Opinion | How a person feels about something |
| Mood/Tone | The way a story makes you feel |
| Characteristics | Traits a character has |
| Fact | A statement that is true |
| Details | sentences that support the main idea that tells who, what, when, where and why |
| Influence | The effect a situation or character has on each other. |
| Information | communication of knowledge |
| To Entertain | Humor the reader (funny) |
| To Inform | To give information or facts to the reader |
| To Persuade | To get the reader to buy or do something |
| Prediction | Something you think will happen |
| Compare and Contrast | How are things alike and different |
| Sequence | The order of events |
| Inference | A special kind of guess or opinion based on facts. |
| Characters | The people or animals in the story |
| Plot | Part of the story that tells what happens |
| Problem | Part of the Plot. Also known as the conflict |
| Resolution | When the problem in the story is fixed |
| Setting | Where and when the story takes place |
| Synonym | Words that have the same meaning |
| Antonym | Words that have the opposite meaning |
| 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…. |
| Theme | The message the author wants to deliver |
| Bold Print | Words that are usually written darker than others |
| Subheading | Introduces the main idea of the section that follows |
| Subtitles | Usually the second title of an article |
| Italics | Words that are written with slanting letters |
| Parenthesis | one or both of the curved marks ( ) used in writing |
| Graph | Helps give the reader information about a topic dealing with numbers |
| Graphic Organizer | A diagram used to help organize information from a selection |
| Illustration | A picture or drawing to add to the selection |
| Heading | Tells what the article is about |
| Timeline: | A sequence of events of a person or place in time |
| Table | The arrangement of data |
| Flow Chart | A step-by-step change of data over time. |
| Index | Located at the back of a textbook and lists each section or topic found in the book with its page number |
| 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 |
| Glossary | A small dictionary in the back of a book |
| Poet | author or writer of a poem |
| Stanza | A group of lines that make up a paragraph in a poem |
| Ingredients | he edible materials used in cooking |
| Utensils | tools used in cooking (EX: spoon) |
| Equipment | The machines used in cooking |
| Bake | To cook |
| Oven | A chamber used for cooking |
| Hyperbole | to exaggerate |
| Onomatopoeia | writing words that sound like sound |