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

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Causality   show
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show When one event causes something else to happen.  
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show When authors compare two things and give reasons why one thing is better or worse than the other in order to support their position.  
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Conclusion   show
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show Words, phrases, and other evidence from the text that can help you figure out the meaning of a word you don't know.  
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show When an author says two things in a text that both cannot be true.  
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Drawing Conclusions   show
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Evidence   show
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show When an author stretches the truth to make something sound much better or much worse than it really is.  
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Inferring   show
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show 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.  
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Misleading Statements   show
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show When an author uses repetition of ideas, words, or phrases that sound alike to emphasize a point in support of their position.  
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show Using your own words to retell something an author said.  
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show A text that tries to persuade someone to act or think a certain way.  
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Position   show
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show 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!"  
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Summarize   show
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show A short retelling of the main ideas from a text. It should only contain 2-3 sentences and be told in sequence.  
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Text-to-Self Connection   show
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show When something you read in a text reminds you of something you read in another text.  
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Text-to-World Connection   show
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Textual Evidence   show
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show A "big idea" from a story, book, or other text. A text can have more than one theme.  
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