ELA Vocab
This part of speech describes a noun in a sentence.
What is an adjective?
This is the lesson or message the author wants you to learn from reading the story.
What is Theme?
What is the setting, conflict, and characters.
This is the strategy we learned to help us organize our open response answers.
What is RACES?
What is problem/solution.
This word means giving human-like traits to a nonhuman thing.
Example: The wind danced.
What is personification?
What is rising action.
This is what TTQA stands for.
What is Turn the Question Around?
This structure presents events or steps in the order they happen, often using time-related words.
What is time order/sequence or chronological order.
To use this text feature, look at the number in the text and match it to the number at the bottom of the page to get additional information or a definition.
What is a footnote?
This is what happens to characters over the course of a story. Without it, there is no story.
What is character change?
This is the turning point, or most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax.
This is what TAG stands for.
What is Title, Author, Genre?
What is compare and contrast?
Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, and Imagery are all examples of this.
What is Figurative Language?
When we do this, we think about what the text says, and think about our background knowledge, to draw a conclusion.
What is make an inference?
This part of a story comes after the climax.
What is falling action?
This is what you need to include to support or prove your answer to the question.
What is evidence from the text?
This type of text structure gives the reader a lot of information all at once. It is up to the reader to determine what is important. Information may be bulleted or numbered.
What is list?
This word refers to how the reader feels when they read a text.
What is Mood.
This is one type of author's purpose. Hint: There are 5.
What is to inform, to explain, to persuade, to entertain, or to describe?
This is the part of the story when the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution.
What is put the text into my own words?
This structure explains the relationship between events or ideas, showing why something happened and what the consequences were.
What is cause and effect?