NY Grade 3 ELA flashcards
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- Central message
- The lesson or big idea about life that a story teaches, supported by the characters' actions and the events from beginning to end.
- Retelling
- Telling the important parts of a story in order, including characters, setting, problem, main events, and solution, using your own words.
- Character traits
- Words that describe what a character is like inside, such as kind, brave, or curious, shown by what the character says and does.
- Main idea
- The most important point an informational text makes about its topic, often stated in a topic sentence and supported by details.
- Supporting details
- Facts, examples, or reasons in a text that explain or prove the main idea and answer questions like who, what, when, where, why, or how.
- Text features
- Parts of a book or article that help readers find and understand information, such as headings, captions, diagrams, bold words, glossaries, and indexes.
- Text structure
- The way an author organizes information, such as sequence, cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, or description.
- First-person point of view
- When the narrator is a character in the story and uses words like I, me, we, and our to tell what happened.
- Author's point of view
- What an author thinks or feels about a topic in an informational text, shown by the reasons and evidence the author includes.
- Compare and contrast
- Finding how two texts or ideas are alike (compare) and how they are different (contrast), using details from each source.
- Opinion writing
- A piece that states what the writer thinks, gives at least two reasons with details, and ends with a conclusion that restates the opinion.
- Informative writing
- Writing that teaches about a topic by introducing it, grouping related facts and definitions, and ending with a concluding statement.
- Narrative writing
- Writing that tells a story with characters, a setting, a problem, ordered events using time words, and an ending that gives closure.
- Writing process
- The steps writers use: plan, draft, revise to improve ideas, edit to fix spelling and grammar, and publish for readers.
- Linking words
- Words and phrases such as because, also, another, and finally that connect ideas and show how sentences and paragraphs relate.
- Topic sentence
- The sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph, usually placed first, with detail sentences that support it.
- Concluding statement
- The final sentence or section of a piece that wraps up the ideas and reminds the reader of the main point or opinion.
- Research question
- A clear question a writer asks to guide a short research task, then answers by finding facts in print or digital sources.
- Paraphrase
- Restating information from a source in your own words while keeping the meaning, instead of copying the author's exact sentence.
- Collaborative discussion
- A conversation where students take turns, listen carefully, build on each other's ideas, and ask questions to understand better.
- Clarifying question
- A question asked during discussion to make meaning clear, such as asking a speaker to explain or give an example.
- Paraphrasing a speaker
- Restating the main idea and key details of what someone said, in your own words, to show you understood.
- Oral presentation
- Speaking to an audience about a topic with a clear main point, organized facts, complete sentences, and a volume everyone can hear.
- Multimedia display
- A visual or digital aid such as a poster, slide, or recording used during a presentation to help the audience understand the spoken ideas.
- Noun
- A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea, such as teacher, park, pencil, or courage.
- Pronoun
- A word that replaces a noun, such as he, she, it, they, or them, and must match the noun it replaces in number and gender.
- Verb tense
- The form of a verb that shows when action happens; regular past tense adds -ed, while irregular verbs change form, as in go to went.
- Adjective and adverb
- An adjective describes a noun or pronoun, while an adverb describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb and often ends in -ly.
- Simple sentence
- A sentence with one subject and one predicate that expresses a complete thought, such as 'The dog barked loudly.'
- Compound sentence
- Two complete sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction such as and, but, or, or so.
- Complex sentence
- A sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause beginning with a word like because, when, if, or although.
- Prefix and suffix
- A prefix is a word part added to the beginning (un-, re-) and a suffix is added to the end (-ful, -less); both change meaning or use.