5th Grade Persuasion Reading Unit Vocabulary to prep for CA#3
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| Causality | When an author uses cause and effect to support a position.
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| Cause and Effect | When one event causes something else to happen.
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| 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.
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| Conclusion | The answer you come up with after you have inferred.
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| 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.
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| Contradictory Statements | When an author says two things in a text that both cannot be true.
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| Drawing Conclusions | Using evidence from the text PLUS your background knowledge to come up with a conclusion, or an answer.
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| Evidence | The reasons or arguments that an author uses to persuade the reader to agree.
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| Exaggerated Statements | When an author stretches the truth to make something sound much better or much worse than it really is.
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| Inferring | Using clues from the text PLUS your background knowledge to help figure out what the author means.
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| 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.
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| Misleading Statements | When an author says something that leads you to think something that isn't true.
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| Parallelism | 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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| Paraphrase | Using your own words to retell something an author said.
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| Persuasion | A text that tries to persuade someone to act or think a certain way.
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| Position | What the author believes, or the author's point of view, about a certain issue or topic.
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| 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!"
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| Summarize | To retell in your own words the most important parts of a text.
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| Summary | 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 | When something you read in a text reminds you of something in your own life and experience.
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| Text-to-Text Connection | When something you read in a text reminds you of something you read in another text.
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| Text-to-World Connection | When something you red in a text reminds you of something else in the world.
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| Textual Evidence | Words, phrases, and details from the text that supports or proves your answer or your thinking.
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| Theme | A "big idea" from a story, book, or other text. A text can have more than one theme.
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