5th Grade Reading Demands/Vocabulary

The lines the characters speak.

Make known to others.

Using the author's clues to determine what will happen next in the story.

The action of repeating something.

Must be read from beginning to end.

General attitude provided by a piece of writing.

What the text is mostly about.

The message or the lesson that the author wants you to take away from the story.

A warning or indication of a future event.

Using clues from a story, plus what you aleady know, to figure out what is not being said.

Made up from the problem, important events, and the resolution.

Read to be entertained.

To retell the main events of the story in your own words.

Uses text/graphic features that support or enhance the text.

Tells the actors in a drama where to stand, where to go, how to move, and how to speak.

Advanced or elaborated to a certain degree.

The person or character telling the story.

The main character is the narrator and is telling the story.

Words that paint a picture in the readers mind.

Details within a story that describe what is seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted.

Literary text that focuses on emotions, figurative language, and sensory imagery.

To cause a message to be known or understood by someone, to show

Added to the end of a base word to change its meaning.

Tells a story through dialogue, where characters talk to tell the plot, theme, and often the setting.

Words that have the opposite meanings.

Words that mean the same thing.

Read in order to perform

Provides information about a topic using a clear organizational structure with a major topic and supporting information.

A person or thing that speaks in a poem.

Understand relationships among plot elements and character and setting.

Should be read multiple times to fully comprehend.

Added to the begining of a base word to change the meaning.

How the information in a text is organized.

A group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph

The turning point in a story where the problem or conflict reaches its peak.

Clues that the reader uses to find the meaning of unknown words. IDEAS

Someone who is not a character is telling the story.

Tells the setting in a drama

Uses subheadings and other text features to help comprehend the text.

The reason the author wrote the text.

Read to gather information.

A decision or opinion you reach based on the information from the story. Your final opinion.