3rd Grade Language Arts Academic Vocabulary

Question 1

What word is where the story takes place?

Accepted Answer

setting

Question 2

Which word means what events are happening in the story?

Accepted Answer

plot

Question 3

Which word means to hint or guess or predict?

Accepted Answer

infer

Question 4

Which term means a person, place, or thing showing ownership, such as Pam's cats?

Accepted Answer

possessive noun

Question 5

Which word means things being in a logical order or one after another? (1st, 2nd, 3rd)

Accepted Answer

sequence

Question 6

Which word means a judgement or belief about something?

Accepted Answer

opinion

Question 7

Which word means the place and time that a story takes place?

Accepted Answer

setting

Question 8

Which figure of speech compares unlike things, such as my brother is a grouchy bear?

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 9

What do you do when you "guess what will happen next?"

Accepted Answer

predict

Question 10

What are parts of a sentence called, like "period" "question mark"?

Accepted Answer

Punctuation

Question 11

Which word is what we use to find what a word means?

Accepted Answer

dictionary

Question 12

Which word means a shortened form of a word?

Accepted Answer

abbreviation

Question 13

Which word means a group of sentences

Accepted Answer

paragraph

Question 14

Which word means opposite or nearly opposite, such as nice and mean?

Accepted Answer

antonym

Question 15

Which word means something true and not an opinion?

Accepted Answer

fact

Question 16

Which word means more than one, such as dogs or men?

Accepted Answer

plural

Question 17

Which word means a book used to find antonyms and synonyms of words but not definitions?

Accepted Answer

thesaurus

Question 18

Which word is the worldwide system of computer networks?

Accepted Answer

Internet

Question 19

What word is a part of speech that shows action?

Accepted Answer

verb

Question 20

Which word means a shortened form of a word such as don't or can't ?

Accepted Answer

contraction

Questions 20