4th Grade Academic Vocabulary Cumulative Quizziz

What is the term for marking your thinking on paper to help you understand what you have read?

• Annotating

• Summarizing

• Highlighting

• Paraphrasing

What is the term for text that tells you about real things, people, places, events, and information?

• Non-Fiction

• Fiction

• Poetry

• Fantasy

What is the term for text that is not true and tells a story that the author has created?

• Fiction

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Non-fiction

What is the type of writing where the author takes a position (opinion) on a topic and tries to convince the reader to believe it, using reasons and evidence?

• Argumentative Text

• Descriptive Text

• Narrative Text

• Expository Text

What is the term for details that you find in the text?

• Text Evidence

• Main Idea

• Summary

• Opinion

What is the definition of 'Author's Purpose'?

• The reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.).

• The main character in a story.

• The setting of a story, including time and place.

• The sequence of events in a story.

What is the definition of 'Text'?

• The story, passage, article, or piece of writing.

• A type of punctuation mark.

• A mathematical equation.

• A spoken conversation.

What is the definition of 'Prefix'?

• One or more letters placed before a root or base word that changes the meaning of the word.

• A word that describes an action or state.

• A punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence.

• A group of words that forms a complete sentence.

What does 'Key Idea' mean?

• important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

• the main character's personal opinion in a story

• a minor detail that does not affect the story

• the setting where the story takes place

What does 'Homophone' mean?

• words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings and spellings

• words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and pronunciations

• words that have opposite meanings

• words that rhyme with each other