Tn Academic Vocabulary Second Grade Reading Language Arts Terms

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Adjective

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: a word that modifies a noun by describing a quality of the thing named, indicating its quantity or extent, or specifying a thing as distinct from something else

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Composition

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5 : a literary, musical, or artistic production; especially : a short piece of writing done as a school exercise

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conversation

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: talking or a talk between two or more people

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dictionary

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: a reference source in print or electronic form giving information about the meanings, forms, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order
2 : a reference book that lists in alphabetical order terms or names important to a particular subject along with explanations of their meanings and uses <a law dictionary>

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discussion

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: conversation or debate for the purpose of understanding a question or subject

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Everyday language

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Language spoken by a people as opposed to literary language

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fiction

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1 : something told or written that is not fact
2 : a made-up story

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folktale

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: a story made up and handed down by the common people

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glossary

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1 : a list of the hard or unusual words found in a book
2 : a dictionary of the special terms in a particular field

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Group discussion

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A discussion among participants who have an agreed topic

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Guest speaker

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A person who has been invited to present a speech at an event where they are not the host. Usually a person who has special knowledge to present to the attendees

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Main character

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The central figure of a story or book

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Main idea

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The main idea of a paragraph is what all the sentences are about: the main idea of a book is the topic written about

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margin

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1 : the part of a page outside the main body of printed or written matter
2 : boundary area

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Mental image

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An iconic mental representation

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message

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: a communication in writing, in speech, or by signals
2 : a messenger's errand or function
3 : an underlying theme or idea

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Non fiction

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literature or cinema that is not fictional

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noun

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a word that is the name of something (as a person, animal, place, thing, quality, idea, or action) and that is typically used in a sentence as subject or object of a verb or as object of a preposition

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Predictable book

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A book which is easy foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or reasoning

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prewriting

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: planning and getting ideas in order before writing

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Pronoun

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: a word that is used as a substitute for a noun

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publish

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b : to print the work of

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purpose

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1 : something set up as an end to be attained
2 : an object or result achieved

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Reread

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To read again

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To read again

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Rules which govern the spellings of words

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Table of contents

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A list of divisions and (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start

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Textbooks

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A book used in schools or colleges for the formal study of a subject

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theater

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: a building or area for dramatic performances or for showing movies
2 : a place like a theater; especially : a room often with rising rows of seats (as for a lecture)
3 : a place of significant events or action <a theater of war>

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verb

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a word that is usually the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or state of being and that in various languages is inflected (as for agreement with the subject or for tense)