5th Grade Reading Demands/Vocabulary

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

Words that mean the same thing.

Advanced or elaborated to a certain degree.

The lines the characters speak.

Understand relationships among plot elements and character and setting.

What the text is mostly about.

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

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

Words that have the opposite meanings.

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

Must be read from beginning to end.

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

A person or thing that speaks in a poem.

Should be read multiple times to fully comprehend.

A warning or indication of a future event.

The reason the author wrote the text.

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

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

The person or character telling the story.

General attitude provided by a piece of writing.

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

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

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

Words that paint a picture in the readers mind.

Read in order to perform

The action of repeating something.

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

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 the setting in a drama

Read to be entertained.

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

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

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

Make known to others.

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

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

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

Someone who is not a character is telling the story.

How the information in a text is organized.

Read to gather information.

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