Fourth Grade ELA PSSA Vocabulary
Across
- 2. To inform, entertain, or to persuade
- 4. The pattern or beat of a poem
- 5. Text structure explaining what happened and why it happened.
- 6. Text structure where the author presents a problem and possible solutions to it
- 9. (POV) The narrator is in the story
- 11. Life lesson learned in a text
- 13. Words with the same ending sounds
- 15. To capture all the most important parts from the beginning, middle, and end of a text, but express them in a much shorter space in the readers own words. (Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then)
- 17. A group of letters placed at the front of a base word to change meaning
- 22. Not the same
- 23. The opposite of another word
- 24. The same letter/sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
- 25. The summing up with the reader’s own thinking
- 26. A comparison made using like or as
- 27. To compare or appraise differences
- 28. Words that have the same meaning.
- 29. Comparison made without like or as
Down
- 1. A belief that is not founded on proof
- 3. An object given human qualities
- 7. Provides proof of the main idea
- 8. An exaggeration
- 10. How people or things are the same
- 12. (POV)told by someone outside the story
- 14. A group of letters placed after a word to change it into a different word group
- 16. Text Structure (many details)
- 18. Text Structure(time order)
- 19. An actual thing that exists and is provable,
- 20. A conclusion drawn
- 21. What the story is mostly about
- 26. Groups of lines in a poem