50 ELA Academic Vocabulary Words: Bellringers/Digital Flashcards/Word Wall Cards

50 of the most common junior high and high school level ELA academic vocabulary words

- You can pick and choose which ones to teach!

- Includes LESSON slides with definitions, examples, and visuals!

- Includes flashcard template slides for students to fill out digitally for daily bellringers, practice, and/or for assessment!

INCLUDES:

- Lesson Slides: terms, definitions, examples, images

- Daily Bell Ringer Assignment Slides (blank digital flashcards for students to fill out)

- KEY / Completed Flashcard Slides (for printing double sided flashcards for review games or word wall!)

Suggestion: This is perfect for the strategy / review game called Quiz, Quiz, Trade:

You use flash cards that have terms on one side and definitions / examples answers on the other side. Give each student one or more of these cards.

Students Stand Up, and then Pair Up with someone else. Then each partner teaches OR quizzes the terms on their cards. Then they swap cards and then pair up with someone else.

GENERAL TERMS

figurative language

gist

literal language

literary

literary device

literary element

mood

narrative

theme

tone

LITERARY DEVICES

allusion

analogy

cliche

flashback

flashforward

foreshadowing

hyperbole

idiom

imagery

irony

metaphor

oxymoron

personification

proverb

pun

simile

symbolism

understatement

SOUND DEVICES

alliteration

assonance

consonance

onomatopoeia

parallel structure

repetition

rhyme

NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES

backstory

cliffhanger

details

dialogue

diction

frame story

humor

literary device

pacing

plot twist

point of view

sound device

stream of consciousness

suspense

unreliable narrator