ELA Academic Vocabulary
Your child should understand the following English Language Arts terms and be able to provide an example of each no later than April:
A-C
Adjective:
Adverb:
Alliteration:
Alphabetical Order:
Analyze:
Antonym:
Atlas:
Base Word:
Biography:
Bold:
Cause and Effect:
Common Noun:
Compare and Contrast:
Complete Sentence:
Complex Sentence:
Compound Sentence:
Compound Word:
Conclude:
Chronological Order:
Adverb:
Alliteration:
Alphabetical Order:
Analyze:
Antonym:
Atlas:
Base Word:
Biography:
Bold:
Cause and Effect:
Common Noun:
Compare and Contrast:
Complete Sentence:
Complex Sentence:
Compound Sentence:
Compound Word:
Conclude:
Chronological Order:
D-L
Declarative Sentence:
Draft:
Exclamatory Sentence:
Expository Reading and Writing:
Fable:
Fact:
Fiction:
Figurative Language:
Foreshadow:
Future Tense:
Generalizations:
Homophone:
Homograph:
Hyperbole:
Hypothesize:
Idiom:
Index:
Imperative:
Italic:
Label:
Legend:
Draft:
Exclamatory Sentence:
Expository Reading and Writing:
Fable:
Fact:
Fiction:
Figurative Language:
Foreshadow:
Future Tense:
Generalizations:
Homophone:
Homograph:
Hyperbole:
Hypothesize:
Idiom:
Index:
Imperative:
Italic:
Label:
Legend:
M-Q
Metaphor:
Narrative:
Non-Fiction:
Onomatopoeia:
Opinion:
Passage:
Past Tense:
Personification:
Predicate:
Predict:
Present Tense:
Pronoun:
Proper Noun:
Question:
Quote:
Narrative:
Non-Fiction:
Onomatopoeia:
Opinion:
Passage:
Past Tense:
Personification:
Predicate:
Predict:
Present Tense:
Pronoun:
Proper Noun:
Question:
Quote:
R-V
Recall:
Reference:
Review:
Revise:
Root Word:
Sequential:
Simile:
Suffix:
Supporting Details:
Synonym:
Table of Contents:
Theme:
Thesaurus:
Title:
Topic Sentence:
Transition:
Underline:
Verb:
Verb Tense:
Reference:
Review:
Revise:
Root Word:
Sequential:
Simile:
Suffix:
Supporting Details:
Synonym:
Table of Contents:
Theme:
Thesaurus:
Title:
Topic Sentence:
Transition:
Underline:
Verb:
Verb Tense: