Geography
US Government
Non-Fiction Text Features
Text Evidence
ELA vocabulary
100

The Country we live in is__________________.

United States of America

100

What are laws?

A rule that helps make a community a safe place to live.

100

This Nonfiction text feature can be found at the beginning of the text. It includes the different sections and the pages they start on.

Table of Contents

100

Good readers find text evidence to help_________________their answers.

Support

100

A word that describes a noun is called________________.

adjective

200

Our continent we live on is ____________________.

North America

200

A member of a group or community.

citizen

200

This nonfiction text feature shows important events in order.

Timeline

200

What a text is mostly about is called_________    ____________'

The main idea.

200

An action word is called__________________

verb

300

A compass rose on a map tell us _________________________________________.

The direction North, South, East and West. 

300

An event in which people vote to choose leaders or vote for or against new laws.

election

300

Shows what words are important.

Bold print

300

The author’s _______ is the point, or argument, that the author is trying to make. It must be supported by evidence or details.

purpose

300

A word that takes the place of a noun.

Pronoun

400

Which continent is directly south of North America? 

South America

400

A group of elected citizens who make the rules for a community.

government

400

This tells the definitions of some of the words found in a text.

glossary

400

In a fiction story, the plot is usually driven by a _______, or conflict. The solution is usually found at the end.

problem

400

A word used to connect sentences, (e.g. and, but, if)

conjunction

500

Name the seven continents?

North America             Antarctica

South America             Europe

Asia                            Australia

Africa


500

What are the three branches of government?

Executive

Legislative

Judicial

500

What does a "caption" tell us?

Explains what a photograph or illustration is about.

500

What is a setting?

Where and when a  story takes place.

500

A sentence that is missing either it's subject or it's main verb.

Sentence Fragment

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