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CA#3 Study Vocab

5th Grade Persuasion Reading Unit Vocabulary to prep for CA#3

TermDefinition
Causality When an author uses cause and effect to support a position.
Cause and Effect When one event causes something else to happen.
Comparison When authors compare two things and give reasons why one thing is better or worse than the other in order to support their position.
Conclusion The answer you come up with after you have inferred.
Context Clues Words, phrases, and other evidence from the text that can help you figure out the meaning of a word you don't know.
Contradictory Statements When an author says two things in a text that both cannot be true.
Drawing Conclusions Using evidence from the text PLUS your background knowledge to come up with a conclusion, or an answer.
Evidence The reasons or arguments that an author uses to persuade the reader to agree.
Exaggerated Statements When an author stretches the truth to make something sound much better or much worse than it really is.
Inferring Using clues from the text PLUS your background knowledge to help figure out what the author means.
Making Connections Connecting something you read with something from your own life to help better understand what you are reading and to make sense of new information.
Misleading Statements When an author says something that leads you to think something that isn't true.
Parallelism When an author uses repetition of ideas, words, or phrases that sound alike to emphasize a point in support of their position.
Paraphrase Using your own words to retell something an author said.
Persuasion A text that tries to persuade someone to act or think a certain way.
Position What the author believes, or the author's point of view, about a certain issue or topic.
Quote Using the EXACT words the author already used by putting those words in quotation marks - for example, every morning Mr. Yoes says "Good morning, Lanier Lions!"
Summarize To retell in your own words the most important parts of a text.
Summary A short retelling of the main ideas from a text. It should only contain 2-3 sentences and be told in sequence.
Text-to-Self Connection When something you read in a text reminds you of something in your own life and experience.
Text-to-Text Connection When something you read in a text reminds you of something you read in another text.
Text-to-World Connection When something you red in a text reminds you of something else in the world.
Textual Evidence Words, phrases, and details from the text that supports or proves your answer or your thinking.
Theme A "big idea" from a story, book, or other text. A text can have more than one theme.
Created by: Deb McKay
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