3rd Grade Word List - Language Arts

text character used to mark the possessive or to show the omission of letters or numbers

essay; editorial; individual thing or element of a class

the state of the environment in which a situation exists; information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

an account of the series of events making up a person's life; accounts of people's life

something produces a result; basis for an action or response; a reason

produce a literary work; put together out of existing material

the last section of a communication; a final; the act of making up your mind about something

fight; struggle; incompatibility of dates or events

make or cause to be or to become; invest with a new thing

determine the nature of; give a definition; describe the nature or basic qualities of; explain

fix the boundaries of; mark off and separate; set bounds to; decide conclusively and authoritatively

a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them

consider or examine in speech or writing; speak with others about

something brought about by a cause or agent; a result

a deliberately false or improbable account; a short moral story; a story about mythical beings or events

a story about fairies; told to amuse children

dream; daydream; imagination unrestricted by reality

brief explanation of words, often placed at back of book

ability to form mental images of things or events; figurative writing

inferring by deduction or induction; truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; conclusion; deduction

explore; observe or inquire into in detail; examine systematically

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

a unit of instruction; a task assigned for individual study

humorous short verse; nonsense song or verse

communication, usually brief

implied comparison; one thing conceived as representing another; symbol

of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character

story; art, technique, or process of telling story

previously unknown; strikingly new, unusual, or different; young

restate text in one's own words, especially to clarify thought of others

a mental position from which things are viewed; the spatial property of the position from which something is observed

read copy or proof for purposes of error detection and correction

a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

stand for; describe or present; play a role or part

inquire into; attempt to find out in scientific manner

determination; resolving to do something; formal statement of a decision

show a reaction to something favorably or as hoped

pierce with numerous holes; perforate; permeate or spread throughout

a prose narrative shorter than a novel

comparison of one thing with another, in English generally using like or as

a list of words and often phrases, usually arranged alphabetically and defined or translated