Vocaboli ELA 3ª Elementare

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noun

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

verb

An action word that tells what someone or something is doing.

adjective

A word that describes or tells more about a noun.

adverb

A word that describes a verb, often ending in -ly to tell how something happens.

pronoun

A word that takes the place of a noun, like he, she, or it.

subject

Who or what a sentence is about.

predicate

The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is.

synonym

A word that has the same or almost the same meaning as another word.

antonym

A word that means the opposite of another word.

homophone

Words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings, like see and sea.

prefix

Word parts added to the beginning of a base word to change its meaning, like un- or re-.

suffix

Word parts added to the end of a base word, like -ful or -less.

root word

The simplest form of a word before any prefixes or suffixes are added.

main idea

The most important point or what a whole story or paragraph is mostly about.

supporting details

Facts and examples that give more information about the main idea.

theme

The big life lesson or moral the author wants you to learn from a story.

setting

Where and when a story takes place.

character

A person, animal, or made-up creature in a story.

plot

The order of events that happen in a story from beginning to end.

conflict

The main problem or challenge that characters face in a story.

resolution

How the problem in a story is solved or worked out.

author's purpose

The reason why a writer wrote a text, such as to persuade, inform, or entertain.

fiction

A story that comes from the author's imagination and is not real.

nonfiction

Writing that gives true facts and real information about the world.

biography

A true story written about a real person's life by someone else.

autobiography

A true story that someone writes about their own life.

fable

A short story, often with talking animals, that teaches a moral lesson.

myth

An ancient story that explains how things in nature came to be.

stanza

A group of lines arranged together in a poem, like a paragraph.

rhyme

Words that end with the same sound, like cat and hat.

context clues

Hints and nearby words that help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word.

inference

A smart guess you make using clues from the text and what you already know.

prediction

A guess about what will happen next in a story.

summary

A brief statement telling the main points of a story in your own words.

cause

The reason why something happens.

effect

What happens as a result of a cause.

compare

To look at how two or more things are alike.

contrast

To look at how two or more things are different.

fact

A statement that is true and can be proven.

opinion

What someone thinks, feels, or believes, which cannot be proven true.

point of view

The perspective from which a story is told, like first-person using 'I'.

narrator

The person or character who tells the story.

dialogue

The exact words spoken aloud by characters, set inside quotation marks.

chronological order

Putting events in the order of time that they happened.

heading

A short title at the start of a section that tells what it will be about.

caption

Words underneath or next to a picture that explain what is shown.

glossary

A mini-dictionary at the back of a book explaining important words.

index

An alphabetical list of topics and their page numbers at the very end of a book.

simile

Comparing two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

metaphor

Comparing two things by saying one thing IS another thing.

idiom

A common phrase whose meaning is different from the literal words, like 'piece of cake'.

personification

Giving human qualities, feelings, or actions to animals or non-living objects.