5th Grade Reading Vocabulary

Fiction that involves an event in history. This genre is called-

Combining inferences you have made about the characters, setting, or plot to make a statement.

Clues in the text that help the reader determine the meaning of unknown words is known as-

A type of writing used to persuade the reader of the author's point-of-view is called -

Authors use this structure when giving directions. It is called-

A type of writing based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.

The story of a person's life written by someone else using 3rd person point of view is called -

A story that is imagined and has characters and events that could not exist in the real world.

Which term compares two things by using the words "like" or "as"?

Language that helps a reader to visualize the events from a text in a better way is called-

Define: Onomatopoeia

What is a metaphor?

This organizational pattern shows all the ways that 2 or more things are similar and different.

This type of text informs or explains an idea for a reader. It is called-

Instructions for actors and stage crew to follow are called -

Complete the sentence: ______ is also known as the problem in the story.

Words and phrases that create _____ by using the 5 senses.

Sentences that give you facts, descriptions & examples to help you understand the main idea is-

The repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called---

The message in a text that helps you understand more about life or human behavior is called ---

Complete the sentence: ______ is when & where the story takes place.

Define: Genre

Small text found near a picture that provides important information about that picture is---

The perspective from which a story is told is called ----

Fiction - Complete the sentence: _______ is the ending or final outcome of a story.

Define: Dialogue

Define: Summary of fiction

When an author uses clues to help you figure out what events will happen later in the story is-

A story that presents characters or events that could not really happen, usually involves magic

A story in which events create a feeling of terror in both the characters and the reader.

What a piece of writing or paragraph is mainly about is called the ______________.

This type of writing describe people & places that are 'real' and events that really happened.

The way that a nonfiction passage is organized is called-

A story written to be performed by actors; a play is called a-

What are the parts of a text (table of contents, index, etc) called?

To say that something is bigger or greater than it really is; "to stretch the truth" is called-

What is the events that make up a fictional story called?

This pattern puts events in their correct order based upon the TIME in which they happened.

When a reader uses clues from the text + what they already know to draw a conclusion is called-

Name the genre: a story that may happen in real life with fictional characters or settings

The reason the author writes a certain type of text is known as---

Define: Emphasize

The word convey means.....

A fictional story that uses supernatural beings to teach a moral or explain natural phenomena -

Which of the following terms gives human qualities to non-human things?