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4th Grade ELA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1st person | Telling the story from the narrator's point of view |
| 3rd person | The narrator is an observer and tells all parts of the story; what every character is doing |
| Authors Purpose | Author's reason for writing the story |
| cause/effect | why something happens/what happens |
| Characterization | how the writer shows the characters to the reader |
| Characters | people or animals in the story |
| Climax | the turning point of the story |
| Compare/Contrast | how things are alike or different |
| conflict | what a problem is called in a plot |
| context clues | using infomration around the word to help you find its meaning |
| Details | give more information about the main idea |
| Dictionary | Definitions in alphabetical order |
| Drama | Skits and plays; not written in sentence and paragraph |
| Encyclopedia | A reference book that has information on a lot of topics |
| Fable | short stories with a lesson that are handed down over time; usually have animal characters. |
| Fact/Opinion | this can be proven |
| fantasy | a name for make-believe stories that involve elements that could never happen in real life |
| Fiction | Written in sentence and paragraph form: Make believe |
| Genre | types of literature |
| Glossary | Located in the back of the book. Gives definitions of words found only in that book |
| Inferences | making good guesses based on the information you have |
| inform | the author's purpose for writing non-fiction |
| Legends/Folktales | myths |
| Main Idea | what the selection is mostly about |
| message/moral | the most important idea the reader gets from the story |
| Metaphor | the comparison of two unlike things using be |
| Narrator | The person telling the story |
| Non-Fiction | Provides information about a person |
| On-line resources | reference materials found on the computer |
| Persuade | the author's purpose for advertisements |
| Plot | Structure of the story |
| Poetry | Genre that tells stories; creates images |
| Point of view | Narrative technique that the writer uses to tell the story |
| Problem/solution | something that needs to be solved and how you solve it |
| Resolution | part of the plot that happens after the climax |
| Sequence | the order in which events happen |
| Setting | the time and place a story occurs |
| Similie | the comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| Summarize | retell the story in a shorter way |
| Theme | The message about life the author wants to get across |
| Thesaurus | A book containing synonyms/antonyms in alphabetical order |
| Vocabulary | Use context clues to know meaning |
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