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Language terms (3rd)
various language terms for third graders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Setting | where and when the story takes place |
| Plot | The problem in the story |
| Author's Purpose | Why did the author write it |
| Sequence | Putting events in order (remember your time and order words, such as next, first,last.. also questions can put information in sequence chart |
| Fact and Opinion | Fact can be proven true and opinion is one's belief, feelings, or thoughts |
| Cause and Effect | cause answers the question why? And effect answers the question what happened? (questions may use words like, because ,what happened, and why) |
| Contex Clues | Words or senteces aroun an unfamiliar word that can show meaning of that word |
| Details | Information from the story (you can find the answers to these questions by putting your finger on it) |
| Graphic Aids | Any kind of picture, such as a map, graph, diagram,chart,advertisment,form... |
| Predicting Outcome | A guess about the story based on facts that are already known. |
| Main Idea | what is the passage or paragraph about? (questions will include words like mainly about ant mostly about) |
| Summary | A summary is a short statement of the most important information in a text. It should describe most of the main ideas. |
| Antonyms | Words with opposite meanings |
| Author | The person who wrote the story |
| Autobiography | something an author has written about his or her own life |
| biography | something an author has written about the life of another person |
| cause | the reason something happens |
| character | a person or an animal that does the actions in the story or poem |
| compare | to tell how two or more things are alike |
| conflict | a problem the characters in the story have |
| contrast | to tell how two or more things are different |
| drama | a story people act out on stage or in front of a camera |
| effect | what happens as a result of a cause |
| fable | a story that oftens has animals as characters and teachers a lesson |
| fact | a detail or an idea that everyone agrees on |
| fairy tale | a made-up story for children with imaginary characters and magical events |
| fiction | a type of writing that tells about made-up or imaginary people, places, and events |
| first-person point of view | a type of point of view in which the narrator is a character in the story. Stories in the first person use the pronoun I to tell the story |
| folktale | a type of story that is passed down from one person to another over time. Magical events somtimes happen. |
| Historical details | infromation about the real events that happened in the past |
| homographs | words that are spelled the same but said differently |
| homonyms | words that are spelled and said the same but have different meanings |
| homophones | words that sound alike but have different meanings. Homophones often have different spellings too. |
| humorous poetry | a type of poem that tells about a funny moment |
| inference | a judgment a reader makes based on both the details in the pasage and the reader's own experiences |
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sonoko
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